Category: Small Grants
The BEARR Trust Small Grants Scheme 2026
The BEARR Trust’s Small Grants Scheme supports small, community-based civil society organisations (CSOs) across Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Through the Scheme, BEARR aims to encourage cooperation and partnership, strengthen organisational capacity, and support practical, locally driven initiatives that respond to local needs. While much of BEARR’s recent work has focused on responding to the …
Project report: Team Unity, bringing communities together
SGS 2025 Grantee: NGO New Generation, Obukhiv, Ukraine Project: ‘Team Unity’: integration of young IDPs The project examined how grants can initiate social change and influence the social environment of a community through the practical experience of Team Unity, implemented with the support of The BEARR Trust. When the NGO New Generation was forced to …
Project report: From probation to integration in Armenia
SGS 2025 Grantee: Centre for legal Initiatives, Armenia Project: Pathways to Reintegration: Empowering through Social Inclusion for a Sustainable Future Project Aims and Approach The project was designed to support individuals on probation in their social integration and active participation in community life. Acknowledging that reintegration is a complex and long-term process influenced by legal …
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: 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 …
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 …
Project Report: Finding Strength Far from Home
SGS 2024 Grantee: The Leader, Kremenchuk, Ukraine Project: Bridges of Cooperation: Unity of people and dreams When the war came closer to the city of Kostyantinivka in Donetsk region in the summer of 2024, Natalia, 43, had no choice but to flee. She packed a few belongings, took her 14-year-old daughter Svitlana by the hand, and …
Project Report: How seeds became a path to self-employment
SGS 2024 Grantee: Voznesensk Community Foundation in partnership with the Agency for Economic Development (AED), Ukraine Project: New Agrarians: self-employment of IDPs through agricultural production Despite its modest budget, this initiative, supported by the BEARR Trust’s Small Grants Scheme, demonstrated impressive results and proved that quality seeds and knowledge can be powerful tools to support people facing …
Project Report: Beyond Drama: How Dialogue and Support Changed Lives in Odesa
SGS 2024 Grantee: Ukrainian Sisters Are Kidfriendly, Odesa, Ukraine Project: Joint Adaptation of Mothers and Children In 2024–2025, with support from The BEARR Trust, our foundation implemented this project for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Odesa. What began as a simple goal—to help women and children feel more supported in a new city—quickly evolved into something …
Project Report: Safe Spaces for Women in Wartime
SGS 2024 Grantee: Country of Goodwill and Human Rights Bureau ‘We are’, Berezan, Kyiv region, Ukraine Project: Recovery and Resilience: Strengthening the cohesion of vulnerable groups, their potential and resilience in the context of the ongoing war A Solution That Offers Grounding: How Mutual Support Communities Became Safe Spaces for Women During Wartime Ukraine remains under …