What can we do together?
Discover our live opportunities below.
We want everyone to feel included in making decisions about Barking & Dagenham.
We want to hear from anyone else who is invested in the future of the borough. If the opportunities below don’t suit you right now, check back in future or sign up to our emails to get alerts about new opportunities.
Current opportunities include:
Give it a Go Fund
Small grants for local people to test out new ideas in the borough
Got an idea that could benefit people in Barking and Dagenham?
Residents helped design the Fund. They decided the Give it a Go Fund should provide grants of £2,000 for something that fills a gap in the borough.
We run Give it A Go Fund a few times every year with different resident help us decide who gets funding each time.
If you’ve got an idea for making positive a contribution to the borough, this could be your chance to Give it a Go!
GROW Fund
Investing in local entrepreneurs making a positive impact.
Join a growing network of inspiring local entrepreneurs who are driving change in Barking & Dagenham. Get a £10,000 grant, coaching and social investment opportunities.
No prior experience with social investment is needed – we’ll guide you step by step as you develop the skills and confidence to take on social investment and GROW your business.
Spaces + Places
Community-led investment in a local asset
After collecting insights from 120+ residents, local groups and organisations, we came together to discuss what we’ve learnt about community spaces.
We recruited 20 residents who will take forward this learning to make recommendations for how we invest £1m in a community space in Barking & Dagenham.
Disruptive Explorers
Disruptive Explorers
The Disruptive Explorers (DE) are a group of local organisations and community groups that want to find new ways to disrupt harmful systems in the borough.
This work is being funded by the Lankelly Chase Foundation, as part of their Place Action Inquiry, and the document also outlines the ways in which we intend to use this funding to promote local change.
