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Read the latest community news, ideas and opportunities from Barking & Dagenham Giving.
Communities’ Pot – Grant announcements!

Barking & Dagenham Giving is pleased to announce the twenty recipients of the Communities’ Pot, who will each receive a grant GrantA gift of money with no expectation of paying it back. Sometimes, there are certain ‘conditions’ or requirements attached to the money. In other cases, there are not. of

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What would you choose, oranges, apples or lemons?

This blog summarises what Barking & Dagenham Giving’s Steering Group did in their first workshop on 25th November 2021. In the first of 9 workshops a Community Steering Group Community Steering Group (CSG) A group of local people who give their time and ideas to make Barking & Dagenham Giving’s

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National Lottery Community Fund Grant Awarded to Grow BD Giving’s Team

Barking & Dagenham Giving is grateful to have been awarded £358,160 over four years by the National Lottery Community’s Reaching Communities Fund for projects that work to make positive changes in their community. The new funding from The National Lottery Community Fund will allow BD Giving to recruit three new posts into

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Models of Community Investments

During Giving Week 2021, as part of our learning journey on local investment models we hosted an online workshop on “Investing in Our Future: Models of Community Ownership” in collaboration with Stir to Action. Following the decision by Barking and Dagenham Council on 15 December to establish an endowment EndowmentA

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Giving Week 2021: Celebrating our local community

On 21-25 June 2021, BD Giving organised its second ever Giving Week. We joined forces with local organisations to deliver free training, exciting talks, opportunities to participate, and shared some funding news. In this blog, we look back at what Giving Week achieved, what we have learned, and what we

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