BEARR website now also in Ukrainian!

Our Ukrainian friends and partners will be pleased that our website is now (partly) in three languages – including Ukrainian. Not all pages will be in all languages, and it will take some time to translate the ones we want to have in Ukrainian. There may also be a few glitches at the beginning, so …

New Information and Administration Officer at The BEARR Trust

The BEARR Trust is delighted to welcome its new Information and Administration Officer Valdonė Šniukaitė. Currently, Valdonė is pursuing her Master’s degree in International Conflict Studies at King’s College London. Having graduated from Politics, Sociology and East European Studies BA at University College London, she has worked in think tanks focusing on Central and Eastern Europe …

BEARR Newsletter December 2023

Dear friends and colleagues,  As the year draws to an end, all of us at The BEARR Trust send you our warmest greetings and best wishes for your good health and safety in 2024! This edition of our bi-monthly newsletter brings you an update on our Ukraine Appeal, details of the Small Grants Scheme for 2024, and …

The BEARR Trust’s Small Grants Scheme 2024

The deadline for bids for BEARR Trust’s Small Grants Scheme for 2024 has now passed. We regret that applications can no longer be accepted. The successful bids will be announced on BEARR’s website, www.bearr.org, after the grants have been accepted by the successful applicants (in May-June 2024). For details of applications received, click here. A webinar …

New Trustees for BEARR

The Trust is delighted to welcome four new Trustees, who will bring additional experience and enhanced skills to the Board. Charles Garrett Charles Garrett left the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in 2023 after 36 years working largely on East Asian, East European and EU affairs.  Most recently he served as HM Ambassador to North …

The BEARR Trust Annual Conference 2023 – report by BEARR Trustee Sam Thorne

Ukraine: community support for mental health, resilience and recovery The 2023 BEARR Trust Annual Conference, on 17 November 2023, focused for a second year on civil society responses to the war in Ukraine. Discussions showcased the inspiring work being done by small, local organisations to address the huge challenges of providing health and social support …

The BEARR Trust Annual Conference 2023

BEARR’s Annual Conference took place on Friday 17 November 2023 from 13:00 to 16:30. The theme was “Ukraine: community support for mental health, resilience and recovery”. To read the report of the conference proceedings, click here. To view the recording of the conference in English click here. For Ukrainian click here. 🇺🇦 The speakers included …

BEARR Newsletter October 2023

Bonfire at the workshop in the Carpathians 21 October 2023 Dear friends and colleagues,  In this autumn edition of our newsletter, we share with you a report from BEARR Trustee Megan Bick on our project “From Group Therapy to Community Cohesion”. We are also delighted to announce the theme of next year’s Small Grants Scheme, as …

Project Report from TAUR, Moldova

Grantee: Society of People with Disabilities TAUR, Moldova Project: Community engagement for volunteers and people with disabilities Our project aimed to increase motivation in our staff and beneficiaries, to make them feel part of a cohesive community which shares ideas and has joint plans. This was one of the beneficiaries’ wishes, and complemented the administration’s objectives: to …