Executive Director's Blog
The morning after!
Oh what a night the 2008 Barking & Dagenham Business Awards turned out to be. The businesses were the clear stars, everyone of those who entered must have held their breath as Sandi Toksvig ran through the finalists in each of the categories. The winners were surprised and excited ...
Countdown to the Barking and Dagenham Business Awards
As the date of the first ever Barking & Dagenham Business Awards approaches I have to declare some nervous excitement about the event. Not only do we have the celebrity Sandi Toksvig coming to host the evening, but there are going to be about 180 business people from the ...
Billionaires and Dreamers
Bold and Dynamic is the new name for Barking & Dagenham and now Billionaires and Dreamers is the new name for Snakes & Ladders. Well not exactly the same, but the principles of the game, which accelerates the player up the board or dramatically cascades them down the board ...
Compete For Opportunities
Barking & Dagenham Chamber of Commerce have organised some really interesting and informative business events lately. This week I joined 45 other businesses in a session to hear about Competefor, the amazing new website that has been set up by the Olympic Development Authority to provide a matching service for ...
Barking & Dagenham Has Improved - Its official
What a year 2008 is turning out for Barking and Dagenham. Today it has been announced that Barking & Dagenham Council has won the Most Improved Council of the Year Award at the Government Chronicle Awards 2008. These awards are the Local Government equivalent of the ...