Posts by Cameron Holleran
Closed Collective Model – Week Two: Moving Forward
Our second meeting started on a grey day following a busy weekend. The check-in question for the day was ‘If your feelings controlled the weather, what would the weather be like right now?’ We heard that people felt like slow-moving clouds, creeping through the day, or like a busy sky that doesn’t know if it’s…
Read MoreClosed Collective Model – Week One: First Steps
This Monday, 13 September, saw us move into the next stage of a project that has been in the works for a few month. As a funder, we want to look beyond the impact the money makes to how the processes of allocating funding could be used to improve outcomes for the borough. To this…
Read MoreBD Giving collaborates with local organisations to pilot new model of funding
Barking and Dagenham Giving is excited to announce that it is piloting an innovative model of funding in partnership with local groups from the Barking and Dagenham Children and Young People’s Network (BDCYPN). The Network aims to unite the sector, address inequality in collaborations and improve partnership working for the benefit of young people in…
Read MoreRelief Fund 2021: What have we learned?
The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it — Langston Hughes, The Big Sea Last week our Learning & Participation Manager Cameron went through the how and what of our recent Relief Fund, which saw £30,000 distributed to community…
Read MoreCOVID Relief Fund 2021: What did we do?
In this blog Cameron, our Learning & Participation Manager, will take you through the process of our recent COVID Relief Fund – the what and how. Next week you will be able to read about what we’ve learned and what comes next. Back in March, we released £30,000 in the form of 10 grants to be given…
Read MoreAnnouncement: Relief Fund Recipients
Relief Fund Recipients Last month, the board of trustees released £30,000 of funding to help sustain organisations in the community that had been impacted by the pandemic. Building on the success of last year’s Rapid Response Fund, we invited people from across the borough to come forward as community decision-makers. We are incredibly proud of…
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