Executive Director's Blog
We believe you can fly
The Barking & Dagenham Enterprise Bursary project is a Bold and Dynamic programme aimed at inspiring and encouraging a group of aspirational year 12 students to achieve their dreams. That might sound rather grand, but the event I attended last Friday was probably the most grounding thing I have been ...
Dealing with the unknown unknowns
The current economic conditions are giving us all a scare but the businesses in Barking & Dagenham must be very concerned indeed, dealing, as they do, in the world of both credit and banking. There are dangers at every turn, and to quote Donald Rumsfeld “that are many unknown unknowns”. ...
Back to work
As the school holidays come to an end and those of us who have been lucky enough to enjoy a holiday get back into work, there is a real sense of excitement about the months ahead. The next quarter is a busy one with several new initiatives to help us ...
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 ...