BEARR Newsletter February 2025

Pottery classes for children in eastern Ukraine organised by BEARR partners  February 2025 Dear friends and colleagues,  In the first 2025 edition of our newsletter, we are pleased to share some important BEARR updates with you. We introduce our new Chairman and announce a call for applications for the voluntary role of Honorary Treasurer. We provide an update on the …

Project Report: Stronger Together: How Creativity and Mutual Support bring people together

SGS 2024 Grantee: Tvory Dobropillia, with Age of Happiness, Ukraine Project: Enabling displaced women and elderly people to integrate into their new communities. Despite fatigue and anxious challenges, Ukrainians continue to find ways to be together and help one another. From August to December 2024, with the support of the BEARR Trust, three public organisations from …

New Chairman for the BEARR Trust

After completing a second term as Chairman of The BEARR Trust Nicola Ramsden stepped back from the chairmanship at the end of 2024. Under Nicola’s effective and inspiring leadership BEARR has achieved remarkable growth and successfully met the challenges of an exceptionally difficult period. Nicola has been a Trustee since 1997 and was also BEARR’s …

Project Report: The voice of Ukrainians with hearing impairments

SGS 2024 Grantee: Educational Assistance Project: “A world of silence during the war in Ukraine”. About 30,600 people with hearing impairments live in Ukraine, including children, adults and old people, as well as internally displaced persons with hearing impairments. In terms of their integration into society, people with hearing impairments are the most difficult category of …

BEARR is seeking a new Honorary Treasurer

Join The BEARR Trust Board and help vulnerable people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia We are recruiting a new Treasurer If you are interested in supporting community-based organisations working with vulnerable people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, you may be able to help us. This is an exciting time to join BEARR’s diverse …

BEARR Event: Talk and Discussion with Dr Sarkissian, Former President of Armenia, 10 March

The BEARR Trust is delighted to invite you to a talk and discussion with Dr Armen Sarkissian, former president of Armenia (2018-2022), who will present his book The Small States Club: How Small Smart Powers Can Save the World and discuss the current political situation in Armenia. With relations between Armenia and neighbouring Azerbaijan deteriorating, this is an …

BEARR Newsletter December 2024

Photo by Ukrainian photographer Rodion Kutsaiev from Melitopol, Zaporizhzhiya oblast (Unsplash) December 2024 Dear friends and colleagues,  With the year coming to a close, we’d like to thank you for your continued support and send our heartfelt wishes for happiness, health, and hope in the year to come. In the last edition of 2024, we bring you the latest …

The BEARR Trust Small Grants Scheme 2025

In 2023-4 the focus of much of BEARR’s work has been on Ukraine and Moldova, with the Ukraine Emergency Appeal at the forefront of activities. This effort will continue in 2025, but the main Small Grants Scheme will cover most of the countries with which we work. We invited potential applicants to send project proposals …

Report: The BEARR Trust Annual Conference – November 29, 2024

Report by BEARR Trustee Sam Thorne – December 9, 2024 Civil Society Innovation in Health and Social Welfare at Times of Crisis in The BEARR Trust Region The 2024 BEARR Trust Annual Conference focused on how civil society organisations have responded in creative ways to multiple crises over the past few years, including the Covid …