Author: Janet Gunn
Trauma And PTSD Psychoeducational Resources in Ukrainian
We share a link to free-to-use translations of material from Psychology Tools “Trauma And PTSD Psychoeducational Resources” in Ukrainian. To access the material on our Resources page, click here.
Ukraine Appeal Update 14 March
The BEARR Trust and our partners in Ukraine and Moldova give our heartfelt thanks for your incredibly generation donations to our appeal. With your support, we have raised over £130,000, including donations received separately from our CAF Donate site. Over half the funds raised have already been sent to local organisations on the ground in Ukraine and Moldova. …
New Information Officer
The BEARR Trust is delighted to welcome Alexia Claydon as the new Information Officer. She started work this week at an extraordinarily busy time when we are handling our appeal for funds to help vulnerable people in Ukraine during the crisis. At the same time we are very sad indeed to say goodbye to Louisa Long, whom we would like to congratulate …
Autumn Lecture 2021: ‘Media and civil society under attack in Russia: what can we do?’ on 22 September (on Zoom)
You are warmly invited to The BEARR Trust’s Autumn Lecture, a discussion on the theme of ‘Media and civil society under attack in Russia: what can we do?’ on Wednesday 22 September at 16:00 UK time. The event will be held on Zoom. Please use this link to register for the event. Our speakers are Maria Logan, …
BEARR Trust webinars, November 2020
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the BEARR Trust could not hold its usual annual conference in London this November. Instead, we held three BEARR webinars exploring the impact of Covid-19 on civil society organisations (CSOs) in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia (the EECCA region) from different angles. Civil Society Support for Persons with …
Look out for Luke on his way from Bristol to Beijing raising money for cancer charities
BEARR would like to share this message from an exceptional young man undertaking a very brave venture – to cycle from England to China. Please read his message below. He will be passing through countries on which BEARR focuses and hopes to contact organisations which have received grants from the BEARR Trust. If you’ve run a …
Survey of the Impact of COVID-19 on Civil Society Organisations in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and South Caucasus
The BEARR Trust is conducting a survey of how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced civil society organisations in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the South Caucasus. We hope it will help us understand where help is most needed. The results will be published on our website in October. Thank you to all who participated! Your input …
August 2020 Newsletter
At BEARR, we are continuing to work remotely (August Trustees’ meeting above), but energetically. In this issue we have four major items of BEARR News:We are recruiting a new part-time Information Officer to replace our invaluable Sophie. A rewarding post for the right person.Our survey of how COVID-19 is affecting the work of NGOs/CSOs …
The Impact of COVID-19 on rural communities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
7 August 2020 A report by Nathan Dampier, BEARR Trust volunteer COVID-19 Statistics in the EECA region as of 15:43 GMT – 04/08/20 (in parentheses – comparison to 12/06/20) EASTERN EUROPE Confirmed Cases Confirmed Recoveries Confirmed Deaths Cases per 1M pop Deaths per 1M pop Tests per 1M pop BELARUS 68,250(+15,730) 61,163(+35,403) 574(+276) 7,223 61 …
The BEARR Trust Annual Lecture 2020
7 July 2020 ‘Europe’s Eastern Partnership/Russia’s ‘Near Abroad’ – Living with Powerful Neighbours’ Speaker: Tom de Waal In case you missed it, you can watch the lecture online here. For many years, at about this time of year the BEARR Trust’s friends and supporters and others with an interest in our region get together at …
