Posts by Cameron Holleran
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 #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,…
Read MoreBD Giving Notes #25 – ‘Money, get away…’
It’s incredibly difficult to ask for what you need and get a no but it’s impossible to get what you need if we’ve made it impossible to ask. Cameron Bray In my last Note, I wrote about how I go about trying to keep people safe in participatory processes and how safety is something with…
Read MoreBD Giving Notes – #19 ‘A seatbelt approach to safety in Participation.’
I don’t think it’s an option for participatory decision-making to leave people outside the vehicle if they can’t or don’t want to wear a seatbelt – rather, we must do everything we can to convince them of that first so that we can get to a shared destination together. Cameron Bray When I’m facilitating a…
Read MoreBD Giving Notes – #13 ‘The first ‘returns’ on our investment’
Participation takes time and resources but the outcome is larger numbers of people who not only feel able but are able to make change happen in their community. — Cameron Bray About a year ago, BD Giving recruited a group of local people to help us design an Investment Policy for the Barking & Dagenham’s…
Read MoreProject work update
You have hopefully seen the updates from our Community Steering Group over the last few months, detailing their exciting journey as they put together a community-designed investment policy for the charity. The last few weeks have seen us slowly returning to in-person meetings across a number of areas of our work. Here are some updates.…
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