Airedale Beekeepers’ Association’s Sue Chatfield receives the sugar from Sainsbury’s manager Phil Butterfield
It is a sugar rush with a difference.
Supermarket workers in Keighley have donated bags of spoiled sugar in a bid to save the region’s threatened honey bees.
Rather than throw away ripped or damaged bags of sugar, workers at the Sainsbury’s store are donating them to Airedale Beekeepers Association to sustain colonies through the winter.
Association secretary Sue Chatfield said around 20lb of sugar was needed for each hive in the winter, with a further stock needed for the spring.
She said: “If other stores would like to donate their spoiled sugar we would be only too glad to take it for the bees.”
The store also donates food to animal sanctuaries and homeless shelters.
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