Category: BEARR News
Project report: Learning to play soccer as a team
SGS 2025 Grantee: Happy Feet, Osh, Kyrgyzstan Project: Including Mugan minority children in street soccer league Osh, in southern Kyrgyzstan. We are on our way to the Mugat community’s mahalla. One of our colleagues from Interbilim, who’s been here for a while, is coming with us. We would like to find children who enjoy playing …
Project report: Country Explorers: A Summer to Remember
SGS 2025 Grantee: Care in Action (Turbota v Dii), Lviv, Ukraine, with DTCare UA Project: Connect and Discover This summer, with the support of the BEARR Trust, Turbota v Dii and DTCare UA joined forces to give children affected by the war a summer filled with discovery, creativity, friendship and joy. Across three daytime camps, …
BEARR Newsletter August 2026
Dear friends and colleagues, As summer passes its peak, there’s a lot to share from across the BEARR network this month: Read the full edition of our August newsletter:
The BEARR Trust Annual Conference 2026
Register to attend The BEARR Trust 2026 Annual Conference in person or online on 20 November at Voluntary Action Islington. The BEARR Trustees warmly invite you to attend our Annual Conference on Friday 20 November at Voluntary Action Islington in London or online. This year’s theme will be: “Prevention of violence against women and girls …
Online talk with Oliver Bullough
Journalist and author Oliver Bullough joins BEARR online on 20 October to discuss illicit wealth, kleptocracy and organised crime. Tuesday, 20 October 2026, 18:00 BST | Online This October, BEARR is delighted to welcome investigative journalist and award-winning author Oliver Bullough to discuss the themes arising from his latest book, ‘Everybody Loves Our Dollars’, and the global …
Project report: Breaking the Silence: Women in Abkhazia Find New Paths to Safety and Support
SGS 2025 Grantee: Women Fund for Development, Abkhazia Project: Voices of Strength: supporting women and girls in Abkhazia When 41-year-old Jana attended a community workshop on domestic violence in her village in eastern Abkhazia, she expected to spend a few hours listening to presentations and then return home. Instead, the experience became a turning point …
Project report: A Story of Change: From Isolation to Hope
SGS 2025 Grantee: New Generation, New Future Youth NGO, Lori Region, Armenia Project: Healthy Childhood: to improve the lives of children with special needs and their caretakers in impoverished areas of the rural Lori region. When 5-year-old Levon with autism first came to our centre in Lori, he rarely spoke to anyone outside his family. …
BEARR Newsletter June 2026
June 2026 Dear friends and colleagues, In this edition of our newsletter, we are pleased to announce the projects selected under this year’s Small Grants Scheme. We also share the recording of our recent webinar with Ukrainian partners supported through the Ukraine Community Resilience Fund, along with the latest fund updates. Looking ahead, we hope you can join our online …
2026 CSO Survey
The BEARR Trust is inviting civil society organisations across Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia to take part in our 2026 survey. Through this survey, we hope to gain a better understanding of the environment in which civil society organisations are currently operating. By revisiting many of the themes explored in our 2024 …
International Sakharov Conference in Vilnius
In May BEARR Trustee Janet Gunn took part in a conference in Vilnius on Authoritarianism on the Rise, organised by the Sakharov Centre headed by BEARR patron Robert van Voren. The conference focused on the global return of authoritarian governance and its modern tools, the erosion of democratic institutions and civic freedoms, the impact of …