Moldova against COVID-19: solitary or solidary?
By Petru Negura, 18 June 2020 See here for the original article on IOS Ostblog Spezial. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed, as in a drop of water, a series of weaknesses but also unsuspected strengths of...
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August 2020 Newsletter
At BEARR, we are continuing to work remotely (August Trustees’ meeting above), but energetically.In this issue we have four major items of BEARR News:We are recruiting a new part-time Information...
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Look out for Luke on his way from Bristol to Beijing raising money for cancer...
BEARR would like to share this message from an exceptional young man undertaking a very brave venture – to cycle from England to China. Please read his message below. He will be passing through...
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New Information Officer for BEARR
The BEARR Trustees are delighted to welcome our new Information Officer, Louisa Long, who took up her post in September. She comes to BEARR with an impressive range of skills and experience and we...
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New hope for stateless people in Ukraine?
Maryna ParfenchukSeptember 2020 Statelessness arises when an individual is not recognised by any state and thus does not hold any nationality. With no rights or record of one’s life, statelessness is...
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Project Report: Refuge for Victims of Domestic Violence
Grantee: Kitezh, Moscow Project: To build a network of shelters for women in Moscow and the Moscow region, using networked IT to ensure women are not turned away unnecessarily. Kitezh is the only...
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Project Report: “I’m a Woman” Club
Grantee: Women’s Initiatives, Blijniy, Moldova Project: Group and individual psychological and legal counselling for women suffering from domestic violence, developing guidelines on the theme: ‘Your...
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BEARR Survey 2020
Preliminary Results 8 October 2020 In August and September 2020, The BEARR Trust conducted a survey of civil society organisations (CSOs) in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus to find out...
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Project Report: The Graphic Novel Tackling Violence
Grantee: Tolerspace, Kyiv, Ukraine Project: to create a graphic novel for 10-13-year-old girls, and training of peer-guides in interactive use of this to raise awareness of violence. One of...
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October 2020 Newsletter
This edition includes updates about BEARR’s three forthcoming webinars, as well as the results of our survey on the impact of Covid-19 on civil society organisations; project reports from several of...
View ArticleBEARR Trust webinars, November 2020
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the BEARR Trust is not holding its usual annual conference in London this November. Instead, we are holding three BEARR webinars exploring the impact of Covid-19 on civil...
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New volunteers
BEARR is always delighted to welcome new volunteers, who play such a great role in our activities. Here are two of our newest recruits. Holly Battye Holly graduated from Cambridge with a degree in...
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Tushinskaya Trust assets are transferred to The BEARR Trust
The BEARR Trust is very grateful to Dr Harald Lipman and his fellow trustees for choosing BEARR to receive Tushinskaya Trust’s residual assets following the Charity Commission’s recent approval of...
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‘Memories of Moscow: Memoirs of a Medical Diplomat’ by Dr Harald Lipman
Dr Lipman’s memoirs of his time living in and working at the British Embassy in Moscow will be of interest to anyone who also experienced those fascinating years of the 1980s and 1990s in Russia. Dr...
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The womanly face of change in Belarus
Alison Cameron got in touch with BEARR recently to offer her services as a volunteer, renewing contacts going back decades. She has been involved with Belarus for most of that time. We asked her to...
View ArticleWebinar: civil society support for persons with disabilities, 5 November
Report by Biljana Radonjic Ker-Lindsay, BEARR Trustee The BEARR Trust webinar on 5 November explored how service providing and advocacy disability CSOs are supporting persons with disabilities and...
View ArticleWebinar: civil society and innovative practice in a time of pandemic, 19...
Report by Megan Bick, BEARR Trustee Kristina Spirina, Winds of Changes, Odessa, Ukraine Kristina began by acknowledging the BEARR Trust as the first donor to believe in them, a women’s initiative...
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Updates from Luke Grenfell-Shaw’s “Bristol2Beijing” expedition
Here are two articles from Luke Grenfell-Shaw’s time in Moldova as part of an intrepid journey cycling over 23,000km from Bristol to Beijing, via many of the countries which BEARR supports. He has...
View ArticleThe BEARR Trust: Small Grants Scheme 2021
Projects to reduce the social isolation of people living with disadvantage People who live with disadvantages often face the additional difficulty of social isolation, and this problem has been made...
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BEARR Trust Spring Lecture 2021
The BEARR Trust is pleased to announce that Nigel Gould-Davies will give a lecture on Thursday, 18 February at 5pm UK time, considering: “Belarus: what happened and what next?” To book your ticket via...
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