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Albert Einstein once said that if bees disappeared, man would have only four years of life

Honey bees are now really struggling to survive with many colonies dying out. Although the Government is giving some funding to the National Bee Unit, why on earth is VAT charged on beekeeping equipment?

If anything, a grant should be given to encourage more people to keep bees.

Current signatories

Frances Daly, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Steve Daly
• Rose Daly
• Gill Smith
• Peter Jackson
• Paul Thomas
• Stuart Oxley (more-allotments)
• Anthony Thomas Goring
• Karen Tanner
• dave cook jean cook
• jacqueline matthews
• George Daly
• Dave Phillips
• Neil Sheppard
• Janet Chazot
• Isabel Chazot
• David Jarman
• James Harris
• Kathy Harris
• VINCE COMB
• Dick King
• S King
• Jeff
• James
• tim letby
• ian brocklebank
• Jorge Salgado-Reyes
• joan osborn
• Martyn Evans
• Paul Chazot
• A Morland (petitions.number10.gov.uk/HMFORCESTHANKS/)
• Jamie Clark
• Dave Wilmin
• John Wake
• janet worthington
• niki pearson
• Dorothy Welby
• Dave Dunstan
• tim birks
• Christopher Dent
• Niall Chazot
• Martyn Wood
• Liz Turner
• Luke Dixon
• Gill Metcalf
• Michelle Patten
• Fr Dunstan Keauffling OSB
• Karin Courtman
• Lee Brown
• John Norman
• John Simons
• Christopher Norton
• John mcmillan
• Dave Chappell
• Heather McNiven
• Andy Norton
• Jeremy Wright-Jones
• Betty Potter
• Graham Hudson
• Darren Perrett
• Jim Mulhall
• sion clarke
• Michael Bell
• Nicholas Cooke
• Alex Smith
• Alan Clark
• Matthew Richardson
• Joanne Clement
• Neil shawe
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• Martin Robinson
• Gorgon Robinson
• Dylan Lloyd Thomas
• Carla Goodin
• Frederick Hazelton-Kullas
• C BROCKLEBANK
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• Mark Pearson
• Amy Elizabeth Dear
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• James McCabe
• Barry Adams
• josephine stockley
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• Joanna Fletcher
• Jean Brown
• Christopher Allan Austin
• Sudi Jane Austin
• sam andrews
• Alan Marolia
• Hilary Lockwood
• Sue Honey
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• Victor Bishop
• David Rodgers
• Kenneth Brian Durk
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• Matthew Barnes
• emma scott
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• john wood
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• LESLIE NEILSON
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• robert goodbody
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• Maria Malson
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• stuart johnston
• Emma Halford
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• Christine Oliver
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