9 Miles East
Nobody knows what a community needs better than the people who are a part of it. So why are residents so often excluded from funding decisions?
Just nine miles east of Central London, an ambitious funder is changing that. Barking & Dagenham Giving's GROW Fund is the first community-led investment fund in England. Residents have the power to make decisions about how money is invested in their neighbourhoods. And they have chosen to back community enterprises that will make a commercial and social impact in their area.
Nine Miles East is a podcast about the rise, fall, and rise again of a chronically underfunded and deprived London borough.
Hosted by Elvire Matu, tune in to hear from the business owners, the decision makers, and the charity at the helm who trust in the wisdom of local people to improve things for their community.
Brought to you by Barking and Dagenham Giving.
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- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2024
Back to the Boathouse
In this special edition of Nine Miles East, host Elvire Matu revisits The Boathouse Studios to hear from CEO and artistic director Carole Pluckrose - one of the GROW Fund's first participants.
Barking…
Grow Fund Legacy & Future
In the final episode of 9 Miles East podcast, Kate Harmatz, BD Giving’s Head of Partnerships and Fundraising, Cameron Bray BD Giving’s Head of Learning and Participation and Wunmi Oyewole, who was pa…
Radical Dispersal: A Better Way of Investing
In episode 7 of 9 Miles East, Kate Harmatz, Head of Fundraising at BD Giving, Amir Rizwan, a social investment expert, and Julian Corner, CEO of Lankelly Chase Foundation, came together for a convers…
Arts and culture is the answer
In episode 6 of 9 Miles East podcast, we meet AJ Haastrup, the co-founder at One Room Live, Ade Yusuf, the head of collaborations and partnerships at One Room Live, and Edem Setsoafia, the co-founde…
Challenging the landscape
In episode 5 of 9 Miles East podcast, we meet Georgina Alexiou, CEO and Founder of Barking & Dagenham Youth Dance and Sarah Robertson, MD of Future M.O.L.D.S. Communities who are joint Grow Fund gran…
A Temple to the Imagination
In episode 4 of 9 Miles East podcast, we meet Carole Pluckrose, the CEO and Artistic Director of The Boathouse Studios, and another of the Grow Fund grant recipients.
Gone are the days when every nei…
Sew Sustainable
In episode 3 of 9 Miles East podcast, we meet the first of the business owners who received the 25K grant and 6 months’ of business support from the Grow Fund.
It’s no secret that the fashion industr…
Steering in the right direction
In episode 2 of 9 Miles East, we meet Wunmi Oyewole, a proud member of BD Giving’s Community Steering Group. Nobody knows what a community needs better than the people who are part of it. So who bett…
Barking & Dagenham: Riches to rags, back to riches
In the first episode of this podcast - 9 Miles East, we take a look back at Barking and Dagenham’s history, exploring the rise, fall and rise again, of one of London’s most underfunded boroughs. But …
9 Miles East Trailer
Nobody knows what a community needs better than the people who are a part of it. So why are residents so often excluded from funding decisions?
Just nine miles east of Central London, an ambitious f…