Give it a Go Fund: Children & Young People recipients

We’re excited to announce the ten new recipients of the latest round of our Give it a Go Fund. Selected by our ‘Given it a Go’ cohort, made up of previous grantees and decision-makers, the theme for this round was Children and Young People. Give it a Go is our fund for local businesses, charities, […]
Give it a Go Fund is back!

We’re excited to launch the fourth round of our Give it a Go Fund. This time, the theme has been chosen by our ‘Given it a Go’ group: 11 local people who’ve either received funding or helped make decisions in previous rounds. Their choice? Children and young people – because our borough has the highest […]
Give it a Go Fund: Mental Health & Wellbeing recipients

Ten grantees for Mental Health & Wellbeing round of Give it a Go Fund announced!
Give it a Go Fund: behind the decision-making process

We chose to make our decisions for the Give it a Go Fund in a slightly different way to before, so we wanted to share a bit about how we did this.
Give it a Go Fund: Togetherness recipients announced

We are excited to announce ten new recipients of our Give it a Go Fund!
A panel of eight residents selected ten ideas to receive a £2,000 grant each.
Give it a Go Fund Round Two: Togetherness

We are very excited to announce the launch of the second round of our Give it a Go Fund!
The theme for this round, decided by a new group of residents, is Togetherness.
3 Steps and One Giant Leap for Barking and Dagenham

The GROW Fund successfully reached people that other funders and social investors don’t often reach. Find out how that happened and the steps others can take to do it too.
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, […]
Give it A Go Fund grantees announced

Give it a Go Fund awards ten initiatives filling a gap in the borough We are excited to announce the ten grantees awarded £2,000.00 each in our first round of the Give it a Go Fund. Selected by our eight decision-makers, a group of residents from the borough, these are the ten people and initiatives […]
Launching the Give it a Go Fund

We are thrilled to launch a brand new fund for Barking & Dagenham!
The Give it A Go Fund will provide small grants for local people to test out new ideas in the borough.