Barking and Dagenham Council has launched its community testing programme in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care to help drive down transmission rates of Covid-19 in the borough to help protect people most at risk, using rapid turnaround tests supplied by NHS Test and Trace.

 

Barking and Dagenham Council have been working with local voluntary organisations and companies to bring some ‘Christmas Cheer’ to the borough, in what has been an awful year for everyone. With residents being affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in one way or another, and as Christmas is just round the corner, the council wanted to put a smile back on people’s faces before the year is out.

Businesses operating in Barking and Dagenham who have been impacted by local and national Covid-19 restrictions are being invited to check if they are eligible for grant support.

Businesses must complete an online application in order to receive a grant as there are four different types of grants all with different eligibility criteria and grant award amounts.

Barking and Dagenham Council’s Cultural Education Partnership linked up with Film LBBD and Dagenham storage solutions company CAMA to award every pupil that took part in their logo competition with a special prize.

 

Community organisations in Barking and Dagenham are set to benefit from an endowment fund, which was agreed by Council cabinet members on 15 December.

 

In what is a significant moment for the council and the community, this endowment fund will create a permanent, inclusive, and sustainable source of income for community groups and will help to create a lasting legacy for the borough.

 

The pandemic could not stop the fifth Barking and Dagenham annual Women’s Empowerment Awards. The awards, which were held online this year, celebrated the inspirational women of Barking and Dagenham.

Women were honoured across eight categories, with finalists and winners carefully selected by a panel of judges. Attendees joined together to deliver some inspirational words as part of a special Women’s Empowerment Month video.

• Global technology company, NTT’s new data centre is a milestone in their £500m UK investment plan
• Investment will help to support the creation of up to 100 jobs in Dagenham, London
• Further sites in the coming year will include the opening of Hemel Hempstead 4 Data Centre, NTT’s sixth data centre in the UK 

London, UK, 14 December 2020:

The last few weeks has seen a rise in illegal parties, also known as Unlicensed Music Events (UMEs) taking place in Barking and Dagenham and the council and police are asking residents to help put a stop to them.

UMEs are against the law at the best of times, but even more so in the world we’re currently living in, where everyone should be social distancing and limiting the number of people they see.

The Legal Team at the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham were last week (Wednesday 2 December), awarded Best Contribution by an In-house Team at the LawWorks Awards 2020 for pro bono work with victims of domestic abuse.