Barking and Dagenham community investors are tackling UK social inequality
Barking & Dagenham’s GROW Fund decision makers have chosen to invest in The Growth Impact Fund, to help social businesses grow their impact. A social impact Social ImpactThe positive or negative effect that an individual, organisation or project has on the well-being and welfare of a community or society as a whole. investment fund developed […]
The GROW Fund podcast launches today
Our new podcast about local investment and entrepreneurs is available now!
Our community makes its first investment
This is a story of financial firsts! Our CSG has made its first investment into Snowball Impact Management.
GROW Fund Grantees’ Announcement!
Barking and Dagenham Giving is excited to announce the eight successful applicants to the stage of the GROW Fund. Barking and Dagenham Youth Dance (BDYD) and Future MOLDS Communities The Boathouse Studios Company Drinks Fruitful Orchard Grounded Coffee One Room Live and Area44 Sew London Ultimate Counselling About the GROW Fund Thanks to the many organisations […]
Barking & Dagenham Businesses set to GROW
A flagship new fund FundA way for people to combine their money and invest together. exclusively for businesses and not-for-profits has been launched in Barking and Dagenham. The fund includes a £25,000 grant GrantA gift of money with no expectation of paying it back. Sometimes, there are certain ‘conditions’ or requirements attached to the money. […]
BD Giving Notes – #23 ‘A piece of cake?’
By assuming that Risk, Return, Impact and Liquidity are all equal to the party, they each take a ¼ of the cake. But we concluded that each guest was not entitled to the same share of the cake. Jack Webb Last week we passed yet another milestone for Barking & Dagenham’s Community Endowment Fund. The […]
BD Giving Notes – #21 ‘A Reality Check’
The question is, do we need to consider ‘professionalising’ our Board or our Community Steering Group to access more of the impact investing market?…. Our challenge ahead is in managing this tension and achieving a fine balance between the two. Géraud de Ville de Goyet Last week a colleague and I had an enlightening meeting […]
BD Giving Notes – #18 ‘Help! Understanding the Investment World?!’
But why would we want someone sitting in a swanky high-rise office in central London deciding where this money goes. It’s not their money and it’s not even BD Giving’s, it’s for the residents of Barking & Dagenham… Jack Webb As many of you may be aware, BD Giving has been given a £1.5 million […]
BD 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 […]
BD 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 Investment Policy A strategic document that […]
