Awards and Achievements
Through our work with businesses and community partners creating habitats for pollinators Apicultural has secured a number of awards.
Our delicious London Honeys have also scooped a number of awards and regularly secure 'Best Urban Honey' at the National Honey Show.
Here are some of our recent achievements.
Guild of Fine Food, Great Taste Awards 2022
Our Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Honey was awarded a gold star in the 2022 Great Taste Awards in recognition as an excellent food product which stands out among competitors. This is one of the most highly coveted awards in the food industry.
Success at the 2021 National Honey Show
Our Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Honey won 1st place 'Best Urban Honey', a first award for this apiary we established in 2017.
Honey from our Putney apiary produced for Nandos won 2nd Place 'Best Urban Honey.' Honey from this Apiary has previously won 1st, 2nd and 3rd awards at the National Honey Show and Nandos Honey Beer made with our honey has also won a beer award in 2019.
Honey produced by the RITZ London hotel by their staff under our supervision secured a 3rd place 'Best Urban Honey.' This is the first time the RITZ bees have won a prize since the apiary was established in 2016.
2019 DEFRA 'Bees Needs Award.'
Our partnership with St Marys Secret Garden secured an award for our work delivering biodiversity improvements on the Nomura 11th floor green roof in the City of London.
The improvements we delivered created nesting habitat for solitary bees, lead to a substantial increase in flower abundance and diversity creating more pollen and nectar for pollinators. This has resulted in a 90 fold increase in Bumblebees using the roof.
You can read more about our work at Nomura in our case studies section.
Apicultural awarded the 'Good Food on Prescription' Award at the 2019 Urban Food Awards.
https://www.sustainweb.org/news/mar19_urban_food_awards_winners/
We've been recognised for our work using beekeeping as a therapy to tackle mental health and wellbeing in the work place and within schools. This award is about the journey we take participants on whilst producing quality food.
We were nominated for this award by our clients 'The Complete Education Solution' and 'Nomura.'
2019 National Honey Show
Honey produced at 3 of our Apiaries secured awards at this years Show. Honey entered by our St Marys Secret Garden 'Buzzin' trainee beekeeper Slub Khalid won a 2nd place award with honey from Our Chancery Lane apiary.
Our Buzzin trainee Sharif Musah won a 3rd place award with honey from our Hackney apiary and Student Junyan Zheng achieved a Very Highly Commended award with honey from the London Stock Exchange Hives.
2018 National Honey Show
Honey produced by us for our clients the Golden Company on the rooftop of law firm Lewis Silkin in Chancery Lane won first prize at the national honey show for honey produced within the M25. Staff at the law firm visit the bees with us each Friday to tend the bees and were thrilled with their win.
Meanwhile our Putney Honey produced for Nandos with the help of their staff secured a 2nd place in the same category proving that our bees really do make the best honey around!
Our honey and apricot preserve also secured a 2nd place in the london preserves class.
2014 National Honey Show
Our Bees and Flowers of London calendar won first prize at the National Honey Show and we were awarded the Morcroft bowl.
Our Macro photography secured 3rd Prize.
Our Putney Honey produced for Nandos secured a second place award 'best London Honey.'
2013 National Honey Show
Honey we produced for our client the Fulham Palace Trust won 1st prize 'Best London Honey.'
