Archive for November 2022
Brand brief: an invitation to tender for design work
Brand designers are invited to tender for Barking & Dagenham Giving’s visual identity development project. BD Giving is a local charity that champions ‘place-based’ working, relationship building and deeply believes in growing people’s agency. Our work is aimed at bringing new resources and approaches together in Barking and Dagenham and creating fairer solutions for the…
Read MoreBD Giving Notes #31 – ‘The lines that connect us’
We are all connected in one way or another Liliana Hristova In this Note Liliana, a member of the Community Steering Group, writes about her visit to Plymouth Octopus Project and what she wishes to share from the visit with our community. My 257-mile journey from historically industrial Dagenham to Britain’s Ocean City of Plymouth…
Read MoreBD Giving Notes #30 – ‘My experience as a working statistic’
In order to get people on board with our work, they need to know that we often share their experiences, or are deeply engaged with those who do have experience and are not wanting to speak for or over them. Adeshola Adejare BD Giving is invested in making sure that our approach to participatory work…
Read MoreBD Giving Notes #29 – ‘The trouble with funding (Part 2)’
In the education system, students are able to apply to dozens of colleges and universities using one application form. Could a similar system help small UK charities unlock multiple funding opportunities? Géraud de Ville de Goyet This is the second of a three-part series about the impact of the cost of living crisis on the…
Read MoreBD Giving Notes #28 – ‘A Pot of Stew’
We are all products of the many socio-political systems we find ourselves caught in and we will, often ignorantly, act in ways that those systems have taught us to act. Cameron Bray This Note is by our Learning and Participation Manager, Cameron Bray. In this Note, they talk about their personal learning about Power (sharing,…
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