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Book your place at the first ever B&D East London EXPO!

Barking & Dagenham Chamber of Commerce, leading voice of local business, is running the first in what will be an annual business to business exhibition. B&D-East London EXPO is a great opportunity for businesses to showcase their products and services at competitive prices and aims to attract both buyers and ...

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Skills Jobs & Enterprise projects

Support available through BDE

Skills, Jobs and Enterprise Board Single Programme (561Kb PDF)

See all our projects listed here in full.

Business Start-Up Programme

Barking & Dagenham Small Business Centre offers financial and other support, including business training and counselling for emerging entrepreneurs and micro-businesses.

Mark Kass
Tel: 020 8911 3735
Email: markk@bdsbc.org
Website: www.bdsbc.org

Championing Enterprise

BDE’s Enterprise Champion Paul Bishop works in the community to promote enterprise

Paul Bishop
Tel: 020 8724 8292
Email: paul.bishop@boldanddynamic.co.uk

Social Enterprise

Enterprise Cells are groupings of local businesspeople and agencies that, through Barking & Dagenham Council for Voluntary Service, offer practical support to entrepreneurially-minded individuals and community groups.

Farhad Mahmud
Enterprise Enabler
Tel: 020 8227 5436
Email: farhad.mahmud@bdcvs.org.uk
Website: www.bdcvs.org.uk

Business Relationship Managers

Business managers advise and give practical help in building and maintaining productive business relationships.

Karthik Durgaprasad
Business Support Desk
Tel: 020 8724 8295
Email: info@boldanddynamic.co.uk

Business Networking

Barking & Dagenham Chamber of Commerce arranges informal networking events for businesses and LEGI projects.

Mary Clements
Tel: 020 8591 6966
Email: mary@bdchamber.co.uk
Website: www.bdchamber.co.uk

Business and Higher Education

A BDE/University of East London project is making it easier for local businesses, entrepreneurs and inventors to benefit from the university’s resources and support.

Jean L. Bean
Tel: 020 8223 6505
Email: j.l.bean@uel.ac.uk
Website: www.uel.ac.uk

Business Loan Fund

Barking & Dagenham Small Business Centre manages a comprehensive range of loan funds, including one that allows small initial borrowings by new as well as existing businesses in the borough unable to secure bank finance. This initial borrowing can be increased to a limit of £10,000 as the business expands.

Simon Oliver
Barking & Dagenham Small Business Centre
Tel: 020 8911 3737
Email: bdsbc@bdsbc.org
Website: www.bdsbc.org

Smartworks

Global Action Plan will provide up to 5 days of specialist one-to-one support to SMEs in the borough
providing them with tailored advice on how they can lessen their environmental impact and reduce
running costs in the process.

Charlotte High

Global Action Plan
8 Fulwood Place, London WC1V 6HG
020 7 405 5633
020 7 831 6244
Email:Charlotte.high@globalactionplan.org.uk
Website: www.globalactionplan.org.uk

Space for Business

ExCITE Business Centre

Hot-desking facilities giving support to individuals or groups.

Elaine James
Tel: 020 8215 9632
Email: elaine.james@dabd.org.uk
Website: www.dabd.org.uk

Business Centres for Barking & Dagenham

From 2010, two business centres, with a 30,000 sq.ft (one in Barking and one in Dagenham), will provide managed workspace for new businesses starting up or wishing to locate in the borough.

David Harley
London Borough of Barking & Dagenham
Tel: 020 8227 5316
Email: david.harley@lbbd.gov.uk
Website: www.lbbd.gov.uk

Barking & Dagenham Enterprise
Third Floor, Maritime House,
1 Linton Road
Barking, IG11 8HG
Tel: 020 8724 3319
Fax: 020 8227 3338
Email:
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