Posts by Louise Kavanagh
Community investment in NextEnergy Solar Fund
We’re delighted to announce a strategic investment of £250,000 into NextEnergy Solar Fund (“NESF”), a leading specialist solar energy and energy storage investment company with a mission to lead the transition to clean energy through solar power. The investment was made from BD Giving’s community impact fund, the UK’s first community-led impact investment vehicle. BD…
Read MoreThe GROW Fund podcast launches today
Our new podcast about local investment and entrepreneurs is available now! 9 Miles East is a podcast about a financial first. It will give people a closer look at the UK’s first community-led investment fund that’s making an impact right here in Barking & Dagenham! The GROW Fund was developed by residents of the borough…
Read MoreOur community makes its first investment
Our Community Steering Group, pictured above with Cllr Ashraf (centre) and and Lara Norris from Curiosity Society (far right) has announced their first investment with Snowball Impact Management. This is a story of financial firsts. While there are a growing number of impact-first social investors in the UK, we are the first to adopt a…
Read MoreBD Giving Notes – #16 ‘Co-creating Communications with local people’
This week’s Note is written by our communications consultant, Louise Kavanagh. It covers what we learned while planning and delivering communications with and for the local people that make up the Community Steering Group (CSG). Originally the ideas in this blog were intended to guide new colleagues who are taking on communications responsibilities. That guide…
Read MoreLaunching the Community-Led Investment Policy in Parliament
We’re going to the UK Parliament House of Commons to share our community-led investment approach and policy. We’re thrilled to share the Barking & Dagenham Community Endowment Fund investment policy on behalf of the Community Steering Group (CSG). The CSG is made up of a dozen or so local people who have developed an investment…
Read MoreBuilding trust and sharing responsibility
After the first meeting of the Community Steering GroupCommunity Steering Group (CSG)A group of local people who give their time and ideas to make Barking & Dagenham Giving’s community-led investment fund a success, now and for future generations. with BD Giving’s trustees, we spoke to a CSG member and the Chair of the Board to…
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