Breakfast, dinner and tea for bees
BEE CAFE
Bringing life back to the urban environment
🐝 Go to nearest Bee Cafe!
Visit our plant sponsor 20+
Bee Cafes
5km
of Corridors
50+
Plant Species
CIC
Est. 2024
🐝 Did you know?
Why bees need your help
1 in 3
mouthfuls of food we eat depends on pollinators like bees
30%
decline in UK wild bee species recorded since the 1980s
5 miles
a honeybee can travel to find food — corridors make it easier
Our Mission
Creating Wildlife Corridors
Our Mission: Saving humanity from total climate extinction without being impolite or causing anyone inconvenience.
Our Method: Local Low Carbon Initiatives.
Our Pace: Glacial — i.e. quite fast for Suffolk and accelerating.
Our Motto: Think Local, Act Local
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Get Involved
Every Bee Cafe is maintained by local people who care. Here's how you can help.
Adopt a Bee Cafe
Take on a Bee Cafe near you and help it thrive through planting, watering and gentle care.
Find out moreStart a Bee Cafe
Have a wall, window box or patch of ground? We can help you create a new Bee Cafe in your street or community.
Get startedSponsor a Planting
Help fund new plants and equipment to expand the corridors. Every contribution makes a real difference.
Support usOn the ground
Bee Cafes in the wild
Latest updates
News from the Bee Cafes
Updates from Katie's Garden plant centre, our plant sponsor and partner in the Woodbridge Bee-Pass Wildlife Corridor.
17 April 2026
Plotting the route!
A great planning meeting as Susie caught up with Paul and Jo from Bee Cafe CIC to progress the route ahead for the newest bee project — a major wildlife corridor from Rushmere, via Martlesham, Woodbridge and Melton to Sutton.
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3 April 2026
Bank Holiday buzz!
A hive of activity on Good Friday — a special meet up at Katie's Garden between Paul of Bee Cafe CIC and creative Catherine to plan materials for an exciting new Bee planting project.
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30 March 2026
Growing in 2026
We are pleased to be growing a wide range of bee-friendly perennials for the Bee Cafes in 2026. They have been planted into recycled pots in peat-free compost with an organic fertilizer.
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19 July 2025
Menu Masterclass
Catherine visited the Bee Cafe in Elmhurst Park, Woodbridge to give volunteers and cafe adopters tips on plant care for the wide variety of bee-friendly plants. Regular deadheading encourages perennials to flower for as long as possible.
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3 February 2025
Mapping the way for wildlife
Introducing the new Bee Cafe artwork — a series of location maps to be sited at each main station, showing the Woodbridge Bee-Pass Wildlife Corridor. Created by artist Angela, supported by Catherine.
Read more →12 August 2024
Hear about the Bee Cafes on Radio Suffolk!
Radio Suffolk's Luke Deal took a trip to the original Bee Cafe at Great Bealings to learn all about the project. Listen to him chatting to Paul Martin — the interview starts at 1hr 22!
Listen on BBC Sounds →
14 June 2024
Planting out!
Spring flowers swapped out of the Bee Cafe planters to make room for summer planting. Thanks to local Cubs and volunteers, the spring plants found a permanent new home along the Sandlings Walk on Martlesham Heath.
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28 May 2024
Our Bee Cafe display at the Suffolk Show!
Bee Cafes took centre stage at Katie's Garden's Suffolk Show display. See the full plant lists for bee-friendly hanging baskets and patio pots — including the Perfect for Pollinators range used in the cafes.
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21 May 2024
Bee Cafes at the Suffolk Show!
Inspired by the Bee Cafe project, Katie's Garden placed two mock-up Bee Cafes at the heart of their display — every single plant selected was Perfect for Pollinators, from hanging baskets to perennials and herbs.
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19 May 2024
A new home for the spring plants!
Martlesham Heath volunteers cleared a site between Sandlings Walk and The Control Tower, ready for all of the spring Bee Cafe perennials to be replanted — with Cubs earning their Gardening Badges in the process.
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14 May 2024
Summer makeover time!
Woodbridge's Bee Cafes got a refresh — 600 donated plastic bottles filled with 600 bee-friendly plants, now going out to fill the town's urban pollen gaps ready for summer.
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1 May 2024
Pollinator-friendly plants for a new season!
Preparations under way to swap spring flowers for summer sustenance — including Monardas (Bee Balm), Agastaches, Lavenders, Red Clover, Ox-Eye Daisy and many more. All grown in 600 recycled plastic bottles.
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22 April 2024
The Bee Corridor spreads!
Following the 10 Bee Cafes in Woodbridge, new cafes have been planted in Playford, Kesgrave and Wickham Market — with volunteers of all ages getting involved.
Read more →3 April 2024
The Woodbridge Bee Cafes one month on!
One month since the official opening and the Bee Cafes are settling in nicely across Woodbridge, with volunteers keeping a close eye on the planters and the bees moving in.
Read more →14 March 2024
Plastic bottles needed!
Woodbridge's Bee Cafes are in place but many more are in the pipeline! Around 600 used 2-litre clear plastic bottles are needed as plant pots — drop them off at the donation station at Katie's Garden.
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1 March 2024
Woodbridge's Bee Cafes are open!
The official opening on Market Hill with Woodbridge mayor Eamonn O'Nolan. The BBC covered the story and Paul Martin appeared on Radio Suffolk. Not too many bees in the pouring rain — but we're sure they came!
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28 February 2024
Official unveiling of the Woodbridge Bee Cafes!
Woodbridge's new Bee Cafes were officially opened on Market Hill by the mayor at 11am on 1st March, in front of volunteers, groups and businesses who helped make them happen.
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25 February 2024
The Bee Cafes are on the move!
The plants have been growing on well since the volunteer planting day. Now the 10 Bee Cafe stations are heading out across Woodbridge ahead of the official launch on 1st March — the first day of spring!
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20 February 2024
A new logo for the Bee Cafes!
Katie's Garden's resident illustrator Angela Mitson produced a new logo for the Bee Cafes. It has also been made in stencil form so all the planters can be easily branded.
Read more →17 February 2024
Volunteers at the Bee Cafe planting-up day
Some of the volunteers from the planting-up day at Katie's Garden on 31st January share why they got involved with the Bee Cafe project.
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Proudly supported by Katie's Garden
Katie's Garden plant centre proudly sponsors plants for the local Bee Cafes. Their generous support helps us expand the corridors and keep the cafes looking their best all year round.
"Discover a variety of plants perfect for your garden — and help the bees at the same time."
Bee Cafe Planters at Katie's GardenSee the impact
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How we're bringing nature back to urban spaces in Suffolk
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The BeeCafeUK app is provided by Steward of Things. Use it to find Bee Cafes near you, see what's growing, and join a local corridor.
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Whether you want to get involved, sponsor a planting, or just say hi — we'd love to hear from you.
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Based in the heart of Suffolk.
Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK