BEMIS 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: 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 …Read More »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 …Read More »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.Read More »
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 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 scheme and bring multicultural Burns Nights to homes across the country. Grants of up to £1,000 are available to organisations to host a remote Burns Day event.
Deadline : Friday 15 January
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 and organisations supporting disadvantaged and needy communities.
EMNRN
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.
