BD_Collective Central Funds

The central pot is for any network activity.  the Admin team (made up from BD_Collective Leadership Team will sign off requested expenses and will ensure they meet the criteria developed by the BD_Collective's leadership team. 

This way of distributing funds enables BD_Collective to practise it's values of power sharing, connection, accountability and trust.  It offers a transparent process for distributing funds across the Networks.  

The BD_Collective is a network of networks, big and small, thematic or geographic, short or longer term, coming together to make the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham a better place to live.  

The work of the networks is diverse but is bound together by shared values.  They link people ready to put the community ahead of their organisation.  We know  that when networks are effective they lead to civil society doing more.  

Each network: 

• Connects people across the social and public sectors  

• Builds trust between people and between organisations by talking about shared challenges  

• Shares accountability for better living in the borough across all groups that can make a contribution, and 

• Shifts power to devolve decision making to those most impacted by those decisions.