Deadline: 18-Feb-22
The BEARR Trust is now accepting applications for the Small Grants Scheme (SGS) to provide seed-corn funding to small CSOs working in partnerships in the field of health and social welfare.
The SGS focuses on a specific theme, to support vulnerable groups such as the homeless, young offenders, the disabled, victims of human trafficking and the elderly.
Types of Projects
BEARR’s 2022 Small Grants Scheme invites applications for two types of projects:
- 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.
- The Trust also invite separate applications for up to £1,000 from former grantees only 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.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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.
For more information, visit https://bearr.org/supporting/small-grants-scheme/