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Meet the fundraiser: Jean Bishop, The Bee Lady
Howard Lake | 10 December 2015 | Blogs
Jean Bishop from Hull is 93 and dresses up as a bee to raise funds for Age UK. She has raised more than £100,000.
Age UK celebrated her work last year as part of the charity’s Love Later Life campaign.
She was chosen to carry the Olympic torch in Hull in June 2012:
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In October this year she was celebrated on Russell Howard’s Good News show on BBC2, in the ‘It’s Not All Doom and Gloom’ section. Howard described her as a “magical lady”, adding:
“How incredible is she. People like that make the world go round.”
Editor’s update 8 October 2021
Jean Bishop has died aged 99.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.