Bees for Development

Supporting bees and beekeepers in the developing world: to alleviate poverty, develop sustainable livelihoods, and maintain biodiversity. This is a new CIO structure for the charity Bees for Development previously registered as The Troy Trust ( 1078803) where the charity's past accounts and annual reports can be found.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Sierra Leone
• Peru
• Malawi
• Throughout England and Wales
• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Uganda
• Zimbabwe
• India

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 30 April 2025, it had income of £1,119,195 and spent £1,167,155.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 428%, from £211,929 in the year to 30 April 2023 to £1,119,195 in the year to 30 April 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 104% of its income in the year to 30 April 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 3 years shown.

Largest funder

Transfer from The Troy Trust gave £810,000 in the year to 30 April 2024, 45% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 30 April 2025: £267,177 from 4 grants. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 30 April 2024, the charity named 1 funder who gave £810,000. £0 of that came from public bodies.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £10,000, awarded in 2023.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 9 November 2021

  Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd

  …£4 billion from the overseas budget, having a devastating effect on so many lives in the poorest of countries. And to give you one example, Bees for Development in Monmouth—their three-year £250,000 community partnership grant funding for work in Ethiopia has been cut as a result of the cuts from th…

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8 trustees run the charity.

• Suzanne ShawChairAppointed 2 March 2022
• Catherine Margaret CooperAppointed 2 March 2022
• Gladstone SolomonAppointed 6 February 2024
• Loic FossiezAppointed 19 January 2024
• Megan DenverAppointed 26 August 2025
• Michael KreftaAppointed 2 March 2022
• Ole HertzAppointed 6 February 2024
• Paul Bernard SmithAppointed 2 March 2022

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 3 annual returns that were due, 3 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1198116

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

2 March 2022

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 02 Mar 2022

Website

www.beesfordevelopment.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Monmouthshire

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Monmouthshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Monmouthshire's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Sir Fynwy Torfaen