This post provides a brief history of the development of the International Day for the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination and its associated UN treaty The International Convention on the elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (ICRED).
The deadline for our Community Fringe Fund has now been extended to Sunday 7th August 2022.
BEMIS Scotland, Scotland on Tour and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society are delighted to announce the launch of a unique events fund entitled the ‘Multicultural Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’. With support from Scotland on Tour £50,000 will be distributed between 10 unique multicultural fringe events led by minority ethnic communities, musicians and singers. Each of these fringe events will be supported with grants of £5,000 each to create and produce small festival and concert…
We’re proud to announce the launch of the BEMIS & Dandelion community grants fund, for community groups across Scotland to get started with growing their own food, and celebrating with a Harvest Festival. Dandelion is an ambitious new creative project commissioned by EventScotland and funded by Scottish Government as part of Unboxed, running from April to September 2022 that demonstrates the power of collective action in a major “grow-your-own” initiative. Dandelion invites everyone to sow, grow and share – not just food, but…
BEMIS Scotland and the African, Caribbean and Black Inclusive Vaccination Sub-Group of the Ethnic Minority National Resilience Network (EMNRN) have commissioned Dr. Josephine Adekola at the University of Glasgow to conduct research on the important topic of COVID-19 Vaccine Experience within African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) communities in Scotland. This research is funded by BEMIS/EMNRN and approved by the University of Glasgow’s College Research Ethics Committee. The survey takes an estimated 5–10 minutes to complete, is open until 11 March, and will inform focus groups to take place…
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 Amendments
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 – though this year this will have to be remotely. Food, music, poetry, and storytelling are all parts of a multicultural Burns night and can form part of any event. So please, consider joining us and others across the country by taking part in our Scottish Winter Festivals small grants…
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 30 November – St Andrew’s Day – here: https://bemis.org.uk/swf/swf-2020-funded-events/
Please see the below open letter sent to Cabinet Secretary for Social Security and Older People, Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP, on behalf of the Ethnic Minority National Resilience Network.
BEMIS Scotland are delighted to announce the opening of our Scotland’s Winter Festivals small grants fund for this year. In 2020/21 we will continue our partnership with the Scottish Government, the Fair Saturday Foundation (Bilbao) and Celtic Connections international music festival to celebrate Scotland’s diverse minority ethnic communities’ citizenship, artistic assets, and talent. The 2020 programme will focus on St Andrew’s Day ‘Acts of Kindness’ and ‘Artistic Messages to Scotland’. St Andrew’s Day Acts of Kindness 2020 has been a…