The BEARR Trust’s Small Grants Scheme 2024
In 2024, our Small Grants Scheme aims to support displaced people, with a particular focus on addressing the social cohesion challenges that arise from significant population movements. Our support under Strand A extends to most of the countries we work with, ensuring broad support and assistance where it is needed most.
For 2024, as part of Strand A, we invited applications for grants of up to £4,000 for joint projects on the theme “Community Integration of Displaced People”. This strand was open to civil society organisations (CSOs) in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Strand A applications had to be a joint application from two or more partner organisations. It has been part of BEARR’s long-term mission to foster cooperation and partnerships, believing that this is fundamental to the successful operation of CSOs.
For Strand B, we invited applications for grants of up to £1,000 for projects to support the welfare of staff and volunteers, and to improve the organisation’s overall resilience. This strand was open only to organisations in Ukraine and Moldova that have previously received support from BEARR, either through the Small Grants Scheme or the Ukraine Emergency Appeal.
After careful consideration, 11 projects under SGS Strand A were selected for funding in 2024. Nine of the grants have been accepted and we are in negotiations with two more organisations whose proposals were selected for funding. Five of the grantees are from Ukraine, two from Armenia, one from Georgia and one from Kyrgyzstan. More details on their projects will appear here in the near future. We are looking forward to working with our new grantees.
We are grateful to all the applicants who submitted their applications for funding, but weren’t selected this year. We hope you will be able to apply for the next round of funding, which will be announced later this year. For details of applications received, click here.
To help us frame the next SGS, we kindly ask CSOs from our region to participate in a short survey. Click here to start.
