Learning from the GROW Fund pilot
A community-led social investment fund for local businesses Dancers taking part in a BDYD event. The GROW Fund is part of the UK’s first community-led social investment fund. It’s the largest sum we’ve ever granted in a single initiative and a completely new model for participatory investment. The GROW Fund pilot launched with £360,000, […]
BD Giving Notes #53 – What Does Participation Look Like?
Participation is a word that we often hear in various contexts, such as education, work, politics, sports, and social activities. But what does it mean to participate? And who gets to decide how we participate? Our Head of Learning and Participation, Cameron Bray, looks to their past for an example of why we do not […]
BD Giving Notes #31 – ‘The lines that connect us’
In this Note Liliana, a member of the Community Steering Group, writes about her visit to Plymouth Octopus Project and what she wishes to share from the visit with our community.
Rapid Response Fund is now closed
As a result of being inundated with brilliant applications from across the borough, we are now in a position where we have to close the fund. When the fund was launched, we set a deadline of the end of July or whenever the funding ran out. We knew when we launched the Rapid Response Fund […]
