2023 BEARR Trust Annual Conference Panel member information

First panel – moderated by Megan Bick, BEARR Trustee Panel member name    Nataliya Shmurikova Organisation name   Centre for Strategic Initiatives NGO (CSI NGO) Organisation location    Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine Organisation start date   18.12.2002 Organisation size (no. of staff and volunteers)  Up to 10 people (2 permanent staff) Beneficiaries of the organisation’s work  At present – internally displaced …

BEARR report on visit to Moldova: February – March 2023

Alexia Claydon (BEARR’s Information Officer) and Jane Ebel (Muse CIC and BEARR Trustee) spent a week in Moldova playing djembe, Brazilian drums and shakers with children in 6 Refugee Activity Centres, whilst also taking time to meet with several of The BEARR Trust’s beneficiaries and local partners. Community musicians Peter Vilk and Tony Pesikan [centre] …

Change of focus for RememberUs in Ukraine  

Since the launch of our Emergency Appeal last year, BEARR has been introduced to a number of voluntary organisations in Ukraine. Some of these organisations have come together over the course of last year: groups of ordinary citizens who rallied together in the face of the full-scale invasion. Others had existed before the war, but …

Report: The BEARR Trust’s 30th Anniversary Lecture

Russia: a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma  Ross Gill, BEARR TrusteeMarch 2023 The BEARR Trust’s thirtieth anniversary year saw Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the return of war to Europe and a humanitarian crisis. BEARR has once again supported emergency assistance, as we did in the early 1990s – this time through a …

Report: The BEARR Trust Autumn Lecture

Putin’s War: What’s the Endgame? Ross Gill, BEARR TrusteeDecember 2022 A former senior editor at The Economist, and now an expert commentator on Eastern and Central Europe at The Times, Edward Lucas has for many years warned of the danger that Vladimir Putin’s regime presents to its own people and its neighbourhood. In The New …

Report: The BEARR Trust Annual Conference 2022

War in Ukraine: The Civil Society Response Читайте українською мовою тут. Читайте на русском языке здесь. You can find a recording of the conference in the original audio, in English, in Ukrainian and in Russian on our YouTube channel. The BEARR Trust Annual Conference for 2022 on the theme “War in Ukraine: The Civil Society …

The BEARR Trust Annual Conference 2022

War in Ukraine: The Civil Society Response Читайте українською мовою тут. Читайте на русском языке здесь. Our Annual Conference took place on Friday 18 November 2022. You can read our Conference Report here, as well as find a recording of the event in English, Ukrainian and Russian on our YouTube channel. The BEARR Trust Annual …

The BEARR Trust Autumn Lecture 2022

“Putin’s War: What’s the Endgame?”, with former senior editor at The Economist and author of The New Cold War, Edward Lucas. BEARR’s Autumn Lecture “Putin’s War: What’s the End Game?” took place on Monday 7 November 2022. You can find a recording of the talk on our YouTube channel here. On Monday 7 November internationally recognised …

The BEARR Trust Summer 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 …