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A Bullseye for Barking & Dagenham
This blog summarises what Barking & Dagenham Giving’s Steering Group did in their second workshop on 15th December 2021.
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
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
Closed Collective Model: Week Seven – Getting on the same page Due to some timetabling and miscommunications, we had a slightly smaller group meeting today and didn’t use all the time we set aside for it. It’s important to mark when things don’t go to plan because it gives us
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
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
A Bold Step on the Journey to Fairer Funding for People of Barking & Dagenham
This week, BD Giving welcomed 12 local people to an online event marking the launch of 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 community-led investment fund a success, now and for future
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
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