BEARR will shortly be inviting applications for its 2022 Small Grants Scheme.
Since early 2020, Covid-19 has made existing inequalities worse. Migrant workers and their families are one of the many groups of vulnerable people who have experienced increased hardship over the last two years.
For its 2022 Small Grants Scheme, The BEARR Trust will invite applications for funding for projects that propose ways of improving the social welfare of migrant workers and the wellbeing of their families. Projects may support migrant workers in the countries where they are working, and / or their families in their countries of origin.
We will also invite separate applications for up to £1,000 from former grantees to fund activities to improve the welfare of their staff and volunteers, and to improve their organisation’s resilience. All former grantees will be eligible to apply for this funding, even if not proposing a project under the 2022 theme of helping migrants and their families.
Applications are welcome from civil society organisations (CSOs) in any of the countries in which BEARR works, namely: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, or Uzbekistan.
BEARR is most interested in projects that will work in partnership with, or extend collaboration to, other organisations in the same country or in another country, and that take an imaginative or unusual approach to the problems faced by migrant workers and their families. BEARR particularly welcomes applications from new and small CSOs.
Projects should normally be completed within six months of the receipt of funds, and applicants are expected to complete a monitoring form and to write an article about their project for publication on BEARR’s website. The BEARR Trust reserves the right to commission independent evaluation of any project funded.
Application forms and guidelines will be issued before Christmas. Please check the website for these and further details.
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