Archive for April 2026
Disruptive Explorers Update
What’s happened since October? Since the Feast for Our Future event in October 2025 at Jo Richardson school, the Disruptive Explorers (DE) project has moved into a more focused and collaborative phase, bringing together residents who expressed interest in continuing their involvement with this work. From January to April 2026, the group has focused on…
Read MoreBD Giving helps new scheme for East London
BD Giving to Host £250,000 Grant to Launch Havering Together Barking & Dagenham Giving will act as fiscal host for Havering Together, a new place-based giving scheme, following a £250,000 grant from City Bridge Foundation. Havering Together has been developed to address long-standing underinvestment in the outer East London borough by creating a platform for…
Read MoreCompany Drinks GROW with BD Giving
A local entrepreneur’s story Company Drinks is a CIC based in Barking. With support from BD Giving’s GROW Fund they’ve strengthened their trading model and are laying the foundations for long-term sustainability through social investment. Alongside producing drinks from locally foraged produce, the CIC also supports around ten local groups who use their building for…
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