BEMIS

Empowering Scotland's Ethnic and Cultural Minority Communities

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

  • SWF Fund Closed

    Our Scotland’s Winter Festivals 2018/2019 grant programme has now been fully allocated so we can’t accept any new applications. Our Year of Young People 2018 grant programme will stay open …Read More »

  • Democracy Matters: Local Governance Review

    People across Scotland are being invited to join a conversation about community decision-making to help make public services more locally focused. The Democracy Matters conversation will identify new legal rights …Read More »

  • We are Scotland

    We are Scotland Our friends, neighbours and colleagues include people from many backgrounds. Together we create a Scotland that will prosper and meet our future needs. The Scottish Government is …Read More »

As part of Scotland’s celebration of the Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology 2017, BEMIS Scotland have commissioned Cre8tive Entertainment to explore Scotland’s story via the eyes of our diverse ethnic and cultural minority communities alongside civic representatives, artists and historians. What has shaped modern Scottish identity? How does the past inform our future? In essence, what does Scotland mean to us? And where are we going as a nation?

YOYP and SWF Small Grants Fund

BEMIS Scotland in collaboration with the Scottish Government is delighted to continue the themed years programme and invite multicultural communities across Scotland to join the celebration of the Year of Young People 2018, 2018/19 Scottish Winter Festivals, and the new St Andrew’s Fair Saturday Festival

Our call this year is for communities across Scotland to showcase the best of their talents and cultural identities across our shared communities. Scotland’s diversity is a strength and we want to help you celebrate that over the Year of Young People 2018 and Scotland’s Winter Festivals.

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38 Queen Street, Glasgow, G1 3DX
email: mail@bemis.org.uk | tel: 0141 548 8047
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