Background
The British Emergency Aid to Russia and the Republics (BEARR) Trust is accepting applications from NGOs and other organizations for its Small Grants Scheme 2017 with an aim to support and encourage NGOs to:
- share experience and learning among NGOs with relevant aims
- disseminate good practice more widely
- facilitate cooperation with and/or coordination among NGOs and other organizations working with relevant groups
- improve awareness of, or engage public institutions in addressing the relevant issues
- propose other, imaginative ways of achieving the Scheme’s aims
Eligibility
- NGOs and other organizations active in the areas covered by the Small Grants Scheme 2017.
- The fields to be covered by the Scheme in 2017 are:
- Section A: Projects dealing with mental health issues in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. (This section is linked to the conference on
mental health issues BEARR is organizing in Tbilisi in May 2017 in partnership with Ilia State University.)
- Section B: Projects dealing with mental health issues in other countries in BEARR’s region: Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Russia,
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
Grant
The Trust may wish to support a number of initiatives through the scheme, so proposals for grants of up to £3000 are invited.
Deadline: 1 February 2017