Over the past 12 months Volition has helped tend to the 5 beehives on the Cathedral roof top. The start of autumn brought about us extracting the honey from the hives and produced over 200 pounds of liquid gold producing around 400 jars of ‘Heavenly Honey’. This was a good exercise for our volunteers and show them enterprise skills such as the price of a jar to the design of the labels through to the end product.

We converted the training room into a mobile bottling facility for the day and worked as part of a team to set up a production line with one person pouring the honey into a jar and measuring the weight then another team member wipes the excess honey from the jar then another team member puts the lid and label on them. each jar is numbered and noted down then boxed for order throughout Greater Manchester.

We asked one of our volunteers for feedback and she said ‘I learned so much from this experience. Working with fellow team mates and seeing the finished product made me feel proud. I recently I have been thinking about how to answer questions in an interview situation and this has given me a brilliant example’.