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Council of National Beekeeping Associations (CONBA) reports, 2008.

Minutes and agendas of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association's Education, Research & Development Committee meetings, 1991-1992.
For minutes of the Education, Research and Experiments Standing Committee held 8 June 1962, see under Council meetings: minutes and agendas (minutes of the Education, Research and Experiments Standing Committee run on continuously from the minutes of the Council Meeting held 14 March 1962 and one cannot be separated from the other).

Details of expenses incurred and reimbursed, 1946, 1968, 1978-1979, 1996-2000, 2002-2003, by Welsh Beekeepers' Association members, the earliest claims relating to post-war petrol allowances.

Details of expenses incurred and reimbursed, 1946, 1968, 1978-1979, 1996-2000, 2002-2003, by Welsh Beekeepers' Association members, the earliest claims relating to post-war petrol allowances.

General administrative material relating to the Welsh Beekeepers' Association, comprising a list of WBKA chairpersons; notes on registration of food premises; outline of the nomination process for the appointment of Honorary Members of the WBKA; a list of WBKA delegates for 2007; documentation from the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD); details of Young Farmers' Club federation organisers in Wales; and a list of WBKA officials, events and related organisations.

General administrative material relating to the Welsh Beekeepers' Association.

Material, comprising mainly press and online articles and news releases, consultation papers and correspondence, relating to the genetically-modified crop debate.

Material, comprising mainly press and online articles and news releases, consultation papers and correspondence, relating to the genetically-modified crop debate, and including responses from the Welsh Beekeepers' Association and related organisations, the Welsh Assembly, Friends of the Earth, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

Correspondence and other material relating to grant applications made by the Welsh Beekeepers' Association, 1957-2014. Target bodies include the Environment Wales Project Grant Fund, the National Lottery Fund, the (former) Welsh Office, the Eva Crane Trust, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), the Commission of the European Communities (now the European Commission) and the European Economic Community (EEC)
Other correspondents include the International Bee Research Association (IBRA).

Correspondence and other material relating to grant applications made by the Welsh Beekeepers' Association, 1957-2014.

Welsh Beekeepers' Association insurance policy documentation and insurance returns, the material largely comprising insurance documents and related correspondence between the Welsh Beekeepers' Association and Blake Marston Priest Ltd, insurance brokers.

Material, mainly comprising correspondence, relating to insurance claims made to Blake Marston Priest Ltd, insurers of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association.

Material, mainly comprising correspondence, relating to insurance claims made to Blake Marston Priest Ltd, insurers of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association. The main correspondent on behalf of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association is Dr C. A. Colman-Porter, secretary of the WBKA insurance scheme.

Welsh Beekeepers' Association insurance policy documentation and insurance returns, the material largely comprising insurance documents and related correspondence between the Welsh Beekeepers' Association and Blake Marston Priest Ltd, insurance brokers.

Minutes and agendas of Welsh Beekeepers' Association Council meetings, Annual General Meetings and various committee/sub-committee meetings, 1943-2021.

Material relating to miscellaneous meetings involving or otherwise relating to the Welsh Beekeepers' Association, comprising: meeting of representatives appointed to consider the formation of a South Wales and Monmouthshire Federation of Beekeepers' Associations, held 10 November 1943; meeting of representatives of Beekeepers' Associations in South Wales and Monmouthshire, held 26 January 1944; Flintshire Beekeepers' Association committee meetings held in Shrewsbury, 11 December 1965 and 23 April 1966; Federation of Irish Beekeepers meeting, held 25 October [?1967]; sub-committee meeting appointed to consider the correspondence between Welsh Beekeepers' Association Honorary Secretary J.H. Ball and the Secretary of the National Diploma in Beekeeping Examinations Board, held 12 September [1970]; General Purposes and Emergency Standing Committee meeting, held at the Royal Welsh Show, 20 July 1977; Stoneleigh Sub-Committee meeting, held 24 February 1979; unspecified meeting, held 13 September [1986]; meeting between Welsh Bee-keeping Associations and the (then) National Assembly for Wales, held 26 November 2003; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) meeting, held 9 December 2005; and annual meeting between Plant Health/DEFRA and beekeeping associations, held December 2006.

Miscellaneous items relating to the Welsh Beekeepers' Association, comprising: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (later known as the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF))/Ministry of Education circular dated 28 August 1946; memorandum, 24 January 1947, regarding the advice and instruction of beekeepers; Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) press releases (kept in marked envelope) regarding Foul Brood Disease (16 March 1964; 1972), food labelling (10 September 1964), pesticide use (with covering letter from MAFF, 11 September 1964), labelling and composition of food (21 December 1967), importation of bees (8 June 1971), Foul Brood Disease (25 March 1971) (with covering letter and booklet), and the Food Standards Committee's report on claims and misleading descriptions (16 August 1966); newspaper cutting, 11 June 1964, regarding beekeeping and referencing Dr Eva Crane and the Bee Research Association (For Dr Crane, see under Grant applications within this archive); newspaper cutting, 30 June 1964, showing Myfanwy Davies working on the Welsh Beekeepers' Association's new logo; typescript piece, dated October 1964, titled 'Better Bees: You can help to produce them'; typescript list, [1965], of clerks of county councils in Wales; newspaper cutting, 29 October 1965, featuring Dewi Thomas of Teifiside Beekeepers' Association; list, [1966], of Honorary Secretaries of branch associations; list, January/February 1966, of Aberystwyth & District Beekeepers' Association officials; British beekeepers' associations [?]mailing list; list of honorary secretaries of Welsh Beekeepers' Association branches, [1966]; Board of Trade document titled 'Application for changes in the protective tariff', [1966]; Brecon & Radnorshire Beekeepers' Association Programme of Meetings, 1970/71; typescript notes, [1973], titled 'Notes from Other Days'; press release issued, 28 January 1983, by the Welsh Beekeepers' Association relating to the appointment of Charles F. R. Dublon as Principality Beekeeping Adviser at Coleg Howell Harris (now Coleg Trefeca), Brecon; security memo relating to 'travel to or through Communist countries', dated 7 March 1985, issued by Commander Eric Verge, Ranges Security Officer, RAE Aberporth and Honorary Secretary of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association; Official Journal of the European Communities legislation booklet, 30 March 1985; press cutting, 28 May 1986, relating to sugar expenditure amongst Gwent beekeepers; curriculum vitae, [1993], of scientist Christopher R. Harries; bilingual booklet containing Welsh Beekeepers' Association honey recipes; printed pollen identification cards by W.D. J. Kirk, with covering note from the International Bee Research Associaton; undated guidelines relating to the treatment of Varroa disease in bees; BBC News printout titled 'Welsh urged to become beekeepers', which references Welsh Beekeepers' Association secretary John Tayler; printed Welsh Beekeepers' Association booklet, 2008, titled 'Coping with Nosema Ceranae ...'; typescript piece titled 'Raising the Standard of Beekeeping in Wales'; typescript list of Welsh Beekeepers' Association officers; printed copy of a transcript of a House of Commons parliamentary debate, 11 May 2006, titled 'Bee Diseases and Pests Control (England) Order 2006'; typescript piece, 2017, titled 'WBKA and the Annual Hive Count'; circle of embroidered material showing the Welsh Beekeepers' Association logo.

Miscellaneous items relating to the Welsh Beekeepers' Association.

Order details, receipts and invoices regarding merchandise, primarily labels for honey jars, requested by members of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association, together with documentation and related correspondence regarding food standards and labelling. The main external correspondents are Dobson & Crowther (printers) of Llangollen. Orders for items from within the Welsh Beekeepers' Association itself - primarily copies of Association bulletins and other literature - are included under Correspondence within this archive.

Orders, receipts and invoices regarding goods and merchandise sent to/from and within Cymdeithas Gwenynwyr Cymru / the Welsh Beekeepers' Association, 1966-2003..

Reports other than Welsh Beekeepers' Association annual reports and Council of National Beekeeping Associations (CONBA) reports. Items comprise: progress report on arrangements for the 1961 short course in beekeeping; 'Report on the price of comb foundation, and on the price for conversion of rendered wax into foundation', [1965]; Welsh Beekeepers' Association Chairman's Report, 1967; report, October 1986, by John Wildig of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association titled 'Disastrous two years for Welsh Beekeepers'; report for 1984/5 on the Welsh Beekeeping Centre at Coleg Howell Harris, Brecon.