Closed Collective Model: Week Six – Exploring possibilities
Closed Collective Model: Week Six – Exploring possibilities A note at the start about language: I am a disabled person and I sit on the board of a disability charity. In both my day-to-day life and that role, I do not use what is known as ‘person-first language’ (e.g. a person with disabilities) but instead […]
Closed Collective Model – Weeks Four & Five: Standing together
Closed Collective Model – Weeks Four & Five: Standing together Due to time constraints, I suggested to the group that I combine the blog for weeks four and five given that they covered many of the same themes and ideas around funding. They accepted this suggestion. We seem to have settled on using ‘One good/one […]
Closed Collective Model – Week Three: Painting a Picture
Closed Collective Model – Week Three: Painting a Picture After some technical hiccups on my end, We started the session with a check-in led by Georgina from BDYD, who asked the group to reflect on how they were feeling in that moment and to describe how they felt as a colour. What we heard was […]
Closed Collective Model – Week Two: Moving Forward
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 […]
Closed Collective Model – Week One: First Steps
Closed 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 […]
Making a good place – Report
Making a good place: How to invest in social infrastructure Barking and Dagenham has been featured in a Community Links publication making the case for investment in social infrastructure. The publication was designed for anyone who wants to take action to improve the places we live in, whether they be national or local politicians, public […]
Relief 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 organisations […]
COVID 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 […]
Community Endowment Fund – Report
Last month, we held two meetings with the community to start the conversation about our exciting new endowment EndowmentA legal structure for managing a financial investment. Often in the form of a donation to a non-profit organisation, such as a charity or university, which uses the income it generates for good work. fund. As a […]
Distributing funds, telling stories and building partnerships: a review of 2020
In this blog, BD Giving’s Cameron Bray shares what we’ve been up to through 2020. Image resource: Oksana_L on Depositphotos In September, the country marked half a year in a state of lockdown and I celebrated a full year of working for the charity, which seemed like good enough reasons to reflect on what has […]
