Category: BEARR News
BEARR Newsletter April 2025
Art therapy sessions for IDPs in eastern Ukraine organised by BEARR partners April 2025 Dear friends and colleagues, In this edition of our newsletter, we announce the launch of the Ukraine Community Resilience Fund, which continues BEARR’s support for local organisations in Ukraine through a longer-term recovery approach. To mark the launch, we invite you to …
Project Report: Integration through Creativity in Ukraine
SGS 2024 Grantee: Association of Community Initiatives Support “ASSA”, Kharkiv, Ukraine Project: New Kharkiv residents. Integration through creativity The city of Kharkiv is located 30 kilometres from the Russian border. Almost every day its residents experience shelling. Despite this, the city is home to approximately 1.2 million residents, and internally displaced persons from settlements in the …
BEARR Event: Life in Spite of Everything: In conversation with Victoria Donovan
Join The BEARR Trust for a special event on Thursday 8 May at 18:00 BST marking the launch of our Ukraine Community Resilience Fund. We’ll be joined by Professor Victoria Donovan, Professor of Ukrainian and East European Studies at the University of St Andrews and author of Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the …
Project Report: Arts and crafts foster integration in Armenia
SGS 2024 Grantee: Contribution to Women and Children, operating in the Tavush region of Armenia Project: Economic Stability and the Integration of Displaced Young People and Women from Nagorno-Karabakh through Arts and Crafts The project was implemented between October 2024 and January 2025. The beneficiaries were 10 women forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh and 10 socially-vulnerable local …
Book Review: The Small States Club: How Small Smart States Can Save the World
The Small States Club is partly a memoir and in larger part a manifesto arguing that small, ‘smart’ states have a vital role to play in addressing the complex global challenges of the twenty-first century – or ‘saving the world’, as the title puts it. The author, Dr Armen Sarkissian, draws on an impressive breadth …
Report: Dr Armen Sarkissian talk – March 10, 2025
Report by BEARR Trustee Sam Thorne – March 12, 2025 Talk topic: The Small States Club: How Small Smart Powers Can Save the World Speaker: Dr Armen Sarkissian Followed by a Q&A discussion chaired by Helen Goodman, BEARR Trustee The BEARR Trust was pleased to host a talk this spring by Dr Armen Sarkissian, former …
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: Psychological rescue: how taking care of mental health helps people move on
SGS 2024 Strand B Grantee: Association of Mothers and Wives of Defenders of Ukraine Project: To help women overcome stress, prevent emotional burnout, and regain self-confidence. War changes the lives of all of us, but those who have lost loved ones or worry about their relatives on the front line every day are particularly emotionally affected. …
