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Empowering Scotland's Ethnic and Cultural Minority Communities

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Due to the Covid-19 coronavirus, the BEMIS office is currently closed and all staff are working remotely.

For general enquiries please email mail@bemis.org.uk. See the Contact Us page to email staff directly.

bemis-thistleBEMIS is the national Ethnic Minorities led umbrella body supporting the development of the Ethnic Minorities Voluntary Sector in Scotland and the communities that this sector represents.

As a strategic national infrastructure organisation, BEMIS aims to empower the diverse Ethnic Minority third sector. We are committed to promoting inclusion, democratic active citizenship, recognition of diversity, human rights education, and wider representation, as well as effecting a proactive role in maintaining and enhancing pathways to influence government policy in regards to equality and human rights at local, Scottish, UK and EU levels.

News

  • BEMIS response to Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill – Freedom of Expression

    February 22, 2021
    Please see below to ready our submission to the Scottish Government’s Justice Committee is response to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill – Freedom of Expression AmendmentsRead More »
  • SWF Fund: Burns Day 2021

    SWF Fund: Burns Day 2021

    January 7, 2021
    BEMIS Scotland are calling on our communities to begin 2021 with a positive celebration of Burns Night on 25th January 2021. Burns Night offers us the opportunity to share food together …Read More »
  • Scotland’s Winter Festivals – Funded Events

    November 27, 2020
    You can see the full list of events funded through our SWF: Acts of Kindness and Artistic Messages to Scotland programmes taking place over the next few days until Monday …Read More »

Vaccine Information Fund

As Scotland moves through its vaccination programme, it is crucial that all of the people of Scotland have informed and equal access to information about the vaccine.

As such, BEMIS Scotland are commencing an Vaccine Information Fund programme with grants of up to £1,000 to empower communities to have engagement sessions about the vaccine programme and develop information assets that can be used for different communities.

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Translated Vaccine Resources

Videos and leaflets with translated information on the COVID-19 vaccine are available are available:

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EMNRN

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We have launched the Ethnic Minority National Resilience Network (EMNRN) to enable Scotland's Ethnic and Cultural minority communities to support each other and our members throughout the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis.

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email: mail@bemis.org.uk | tel: 0141 255 2133
Scottish Charity Number SC027692 | Company Number SC200547

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