Category: Newsletter
BEARR Newsletter December 2025
December 2025 Dear friends and colleagues, As we reflect on the year gone by, we warmly thank our donors for their generous support and wish our partners and friends a joyful and healthy New Year, filled with hope, resilience and real achievements. In this December edition, we give an update on next year’s Small Grants …
Georgian civil society organisations in crisis
Armorer Wason, BEARR Adviser ‘I haven’t experienced this kind of repression; I grew up in post-Soviet Georgia. I’m finding it really hard to adjust. Our whole identity is under threat.’ In mid-September I spent time with two civil society organisation (CSO) leaders in Tbilisi. Nino (all names have been changed), the director of a well-respected …
Project report: “Volunteering Academy 2025”
Two grantees in the same city used their 2025 SGS Strand B grant from The BEARR Trust to run a joint “Volunteering Academy 2025” training and resilience-building programme. During the programme 30 staff and volunteers attended 10 in-person, six-hour sessions with experienced trainers. The programme covered topics most in-demand in the current challenging context: 1. …
Project report: A creative club that became a lifeline
Community Resilience Fund Grantee: Institute for Democracy, Moldova Project: To help Ukrainian refugees and Moldovan residents find stability through art A three-month initiative entitled “Creative Club for Adaptation and Community Cohesion”, supported by the The BEARR Trust, has concluded in Moldova. Its mission was simple yet vital: to help people who have lived through war, …
BEARR Newsletter October 2025
Displaced and local children in Zaporizhzhia find joy and connection through community activities supported by BEARR’s partners October 2025 Dear friends and colleagues, In this October edition, we’re delighted to share the latest update on our Ukraine Community Resilience Fund and an invitation to our Annual Conference on 14 November, where we’re pleased to announce this year’s speakers. You’ll …
The BEARR Trust Annual Review 2024
Now available, the 2024 Annual Review presents a shorter, reader-friendly version of our annual accounts capturing the essence of our work over the past year. The review highlights key aspects of our efforts in 2024, including the achievements of our Ukraine Appeal, the summary of our Small Grants Scheme, and the various events and activities that brought …
Project report: Integration of displaced women in Armenia through economic empowerment
SGS 2024 Grantee: Mutabor Platform, Armenia Project: Economic stabilisation and integration of displaced young people and women through arts and crafts Gohar (name changed) lives on the border of Armenia, in the Syunik region. She was first displaced from Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) during the 2020 war but later returned, only to be forcibly displaced again during …
BEARR Newsletter August 2025
Art workshops for internally displaced women living in Kremenchuk, organised by BEARR partners August 2025 Dear friends and colleagues, In this August edition, we’re pleased to report on the first initiatives funded through our Ukraine Community Resilience Fund. We also have news about our upcoming Annual Lecture at the EBRD on 14 October, along with a reminder to save the date …
Project Report: Social Workers: Key to helping victims of violence
SGS 2024 Grantee: Oasis Foundation, Kyrgyzstan Project: Training and Resource Centres for social workers The project has helped create a platform for social workers and psychologists who have not only gone through training to identify victims of violence, but are also willing to work together. A total of 60 social workers and psychologists have been trained …
Ukraine’s recovery cannot wait until Russia’s invasion is over
The BEARR Trust’s Small Grants Officer, Anna Morgan, attended the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome on July 10-11 in her capacity as Programme Manager for Russia and Eurasia and Manager of the Ukraine Forum at the Chatham House think-tank. Here is her article “Ukraine’s recovery cannot wait until Russia’s invasion is over”, in which she …
