Category: BEARR News
February 2020 Newsletter
Welcome to the first edition of BEARR’s new-style Newsletter. This will come out every two months and contain all the material that previously went into the 6-monthly Newsletter and monthly Bulletin. Below, Chairman Nicola Ramsden explains the changes. This issue focuses on domestic violence, with:- A report on November’s conference on ‘Violence against Women and Girls in Eastern …
The BEARR Trust Annual Lecture 2020 – 4 June at the EBRD – postponed until further notice
The BEARR Trust Annual Lecture 2020 will be on 4 June at 6pm at the EBRD, 1 Exchange Square, London EC2A 2JN However, the lecture might have to be postponed until the autumn because of measures caused by the incidence of New Coronovirus (Covid 19). We will keep you informed. Tom de Waal will speak about “Europe’s Eastern …
Welcome to our new website!
We are very excited to launch our brand new website! Please bear with us as we migrate historical content over to our new platform and turn on the Russian language website. Over time as our new site evolves, we hope to develop it into an increasingly useful and user-friendly resource for all our visitors.
BEARR is changing the way that we communicate with you
Providing interesting and up to date information about health and welfare developments in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is a fundamental part of BEARR’s services. The trustees have been working over the past two years on ways to improve our communications, making the best use of BEARR’s modest resources. We have already widened our reach …
BEARR News – about our patrons and volunteers
Farewell to… Sir Jonathan Miller The Trust notes with sadness the death in November 2019 of Sir Jonathan Miller CBE, international cultural icon but also a long-standing Patron of The BEARR Trust. Deborah Manley Deborah was a founding member of the BEARR Trust, and a strong supporter of our work as a Friend up until …
BEARR Trust Annual Conference 2019: Violence against Women and Girls in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Report and presentations The conference on 15 November brought together over 60 representatives of civil society, academia, international organisations, lawyers, consultants and students from Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Tajikistan, Georgia, Uzbekistan and the UK. Nicola Ramsden, Chairman of The BEARR Trust, opened the conference by saying that gender-based violence (GBV) is not only an issue of …
Tell us what you think about our newsletter
The BEARR Trust invites you to share any suggestions and comments you might have, regarding our bi-annual newsletter. The BEARR Trust has been producing a biannual newsletter for a number of years, keeping readers in touch with our news and events, health and welfare updates from Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus, as …
BEARR Trust Annual Report 2018
Our Annual Report on BEARR Trust activities in 2018 is now available to read here.
Trustee Charlie Walker runs the London Marathon for BEARR
Charlie’s message I’m running the London marathon in 2019 to raise money for the BEARR Trust, which supports vulnerable people in countries of the former Soviet Union. BEARR, of which I’m a trustee, runs an annual grants competition that provides funding for small NGOs operating across the Eurasian region, and this year’s scheme focuses on …
Death of BEARR Patron the Duchess of Abercorn
The BEARR Trust is sad to inform its supporters and readers of the death of its patron the Duchess of Abercorn in December 2018. She lived in Northern Ireland. She was a descendant of Alexander Puskhin and founded the Pushkin Trust to promote creative learning in honour of her ancestor. In 2003 she received an honorary doctorate …