Category: BEARR News
BEARR Newsletter, August 2022
31 August 2022 Dear friends and colleagues, We hope you’re having a lovely summer. In this issue of our newsletter, we bring you an update 0n our Emergency Ukraine Appeal and share our heartfelt thanks to all those who have so generously organised fundraisers on our behalf. And in case you missed our eye-opening talk with trauma surgeon David Nott back …
The BEARR Trust Lecture
Surgery on the front line in Ukraine: David Nott in conversation with Bridget Kendall Ross Gill, BEARR TrusteeJune 2022 David Nott is one of the world’s most experienced trauma surgeons. Since the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992, he has been on some 27 missions to war zones around the world, supporting local doctors in treating …
Project report: People Plus, Belarus
Grantee: People Plus, BelarusProject: Reducing social isolation of people living with HIV at the age of over 65 years Today there is a large group of people in Belarus, living with HIV and receiving anti-retroviral treatment (ARV), and their numbers will grow in the coming years. These people need not only medical care as they …
Project report: KEDEM, Moldova
Grantee: KEDEM, MoldovaProject: Seminar for staff and volunteers On 17 July 2022, the educational seminar “B-SAFETY” took place with 50 participants from the RVC Volunteer Centre. The workshop was made possible with support from a BEARR grant, for which our team are very grateful! The main goal of the B-SAFETY project was to undertake a …
Mosty-Movy: Volunteer Translators Supporting Ukrainian Refugees in the UK
Two of BEARR’s trustees, Nicola Ramsden and Megan Bick, recently attended the University of Cambridge’s Ukrainian summer school school, where they were introduced to a volunteer organisation, Mosty-Movy, supporting Ukrainian refugees here in the UK. Find out more about their work and how to get involved below: “Mosty-Movy is an online community of over 100 Russian …
Project report: Kids are Kids, Russia
Grantee: Kids are Kids, RussiaProject: Summer camp for marginalised and migrant families The Centre for support and adaptation for children of refugees and migrants “Kids are Kids” is a centre that helps children with linguistic, psychological and social adaptation. Since 1996 the Centre has been giving children from many countries the chance to integrate into …
Art for Ukraine in aid of BEARR’s Emergency Appeal
UK artist Ray Postill is selling his life’s work to raise money for BEARR’s Emergency Ukraine Appeal. Ray Postill Over the course of the last twenty years, self-taught amateur artist Ray Postill has painted over 250 pictures which are lovingly stored at his home in St Albans. A civil engineer by trade, Ray began painting …
Support Ukrainian Refugees in the UK: HealthProm Appeal
Our friends at HealthProm have launched an appeal to support Ukrainian refugees arriving in North London, many of whom are women and children without relatives, friends or any form of financial support here in the UK. HealthProm has been supporting vulnerable children, women and families in the UK, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Afghanistan for …
Project report: Ukrainian Down Syndrome Organisation, Ukraine
Young people with Down Syndrome can and want to work Grantee: Ukrainian Down Syndrome Organisation (UDSO), Ukraine Project: Support for people aged 16-35 with DS including access to jobs and social participation The UDSO’s Youth Club and Supported Employment Programme, supported by The BEARR Trust, completed the project “Creating tools for the socialisation and self-realisation of people with Down Syndrome to …
The BEARR Trust and David Nott Foundation present “Surgery on the front line in Ukraine: David Nott in conversation with Bridget Kendall”
We were honoured that on Monday 27 June BEARR was joined by trauma surgeon and author of War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line, David Nott, to discuss his work providing emergency surgical care and training local doctors in Ukraine. David was in conversation with award-winning journalist and BEARR Patron, Bridget Kendall, sharing his stories of working in crisis and catastrophe …
