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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.

Correspondence dating from the establishment of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association in 1943 to 2021, mainly to and from Welsh Beekeepers' Association officials - who include J[ohn] E[mrys] Anwyl (Honorary Secretary), J. H. Ball (Honorary Secretary, later Honorary Editor), John E. Lancaster (Honorary Secretary), Mr D. A. Thomas (Honorary Secretary), Commander Eric George Verge (Honorary Secretary), Wally Shaw, Tom Rowlands (President), Lynfa Davies (Secretary), John Page (Secretary) and Lynda Christie (Chair) (tendering her resignation from her post) - and other members, writing either as individuals or as representatives of their respective county/district beekeepers' associations. Other correspondents include the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society (see also under Royal Welsh Agricultural Society correspondence within this archive); the Forestry Commission; the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF); the National Library of Wales; the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA); the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD); the Welsh Office; the Council of National Beekeeping Associations (CONBA); the (then) Welsh Assembly Government (one of the correspondents being Elin Jones, who at the time was the Assembly's Minister for Rural Affairs); the Food Standards Agency (Wales) (Asiantaeth Safonau Bwyd (Cymru)); and various Welsh county councils and education authorities/committees. Topics of discussion include Association membership, the appointment of Association officers, bee diseases and the environmental effects of crop spraying and other forms of pollution on the health and wellbeing of bees.
Correspondence relating to the deposit of Welsh Beekeepers Association records at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth includes a letter, 25 July 2014, from then Chief Executive and Librarian Aled Gruffydd Jones informing John Page of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association that WBKA papers held at the Library had been destroyed by fire in April 2013 (see note in main section of archive).
Correspondence with the National Library and undated correspondence kept in marked envelopes in box labelled '1969-2021'.

Together with folder of correspondence, 1969-1972, between the Welsh Beekeepers' Association and the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society (kept in separate box from remainder of correspondence material).

Correspondence on topics such as insurance policies and claims, festivals and shows, grant applications, training and assessment and conferences and summer schools may be found under their relevant headings within this archive.

A series of correspondence and related material, 1969-1972, between Welsh Beekeepers' Association officials/members and the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, mainly relating to the Welsh Beekeepers' Association's participation in the annual Royal Welsh Agricultural Show held in the village of Llanelwedd, Radnorshire. Other correspondents include the Bee Research Association (later the International Bee Research Association). A Treasurer's report dated 12 September 1970 has been removed and placed under Accounts and expenditure within this archive. Minutes of a Welsh Beekeepers' Association Sub-committee meeting held 12 September 1970 have been left in place due to their relevance to a disputed matter taking place around that date.