BEMIS Scotland are aware that ethnic minority communities across Scotland will need to self-isolate and may need additional support to access support agencies, emergency relief or make contact with broader community support initiatives. Having spoken to communities across Scotland in the last number of days it has become apparent that the coming days and weeks […]
SWF Fund: Burns Day 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 – though this year this will have to be remotely. Food, music, poetry, and storytelling are all parts of a multicultural Burns night and can […]
Scotland’s Winter Festivals – Funded Events
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/
Open letter to Cabinet Secretary for Social Security and Older People
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.
SWF 2020 Fund Launched
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 […]
Resilient & Inclusive Communities Fund
We are happy to announce the launch of our new Resilient & Inclusive Communities Fund, funded by Foundation Scotland from the Response, Recovery and Resilience Fund, for diverse Ethnic Minority community groups and organisations to set up programmes and services supporting disadvantaged and excluded communities. Grants of up to £3,000 are available to eligible local community groups […]
Consultation Invitation: Return To School & Early Learning & Childcare
Parent Club Consultation Invitation Re: plans for the return to schools and early learning and childcare settings Following the announcement by the Scottish Government on Thursday 30th July outlining plans for the return to schools and early learning and childcare settings, Parent Club is very aware that the news will bring about a about mixture […]
Parent Club – Mental health support for new mums
Please see below a new resource for new mums from the Scottish Government’s Parent Club: Parent Club is the primary communication channel the Scottish Government uses to reach out directly to parents and carers, organising multiple health and education related campaigns under one umbrella for children aged 0–16. It aims to speak to parents in […]
Emergency Sustenance Grant fund suspended
We have had a very large number of applications to our Emergency Sustenance Grant fund, and while we are glad to be able to help out so many people, we unfortunately cannot continue to provide this fund at this time. We have had to make the hard decision to suspend further applications. If there are […]
Open letter to PM on ‘no recourse to public funds’
On behalf of the EMNRN, we today sent a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson regarding the consequences of having ‘no recourse to public funds’ faced by members of the diverse ethnic minority communities in Scotland. You can see this letter in full here. The main text of the letter is reproduced below
Covid-19 Transition Fund
Today we have launched our Covid-19 Transition Fund for organisations. With support from the Scottish Government we have £39,500 we are going to distribute to community organisations across Scotland. The transition fund is here to help organisations respond to the changing needs of their members in a sustainable way. This can mean help in accessing […]
