Registered charity · Essex

Barking and Dagenham Giving

8 trustees
Income £63m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 3 more
Where: Barking And Dagenham
Website: bdgiving.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Barking and Dagenham Giving
Registered: 2016

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£63m£18m
2024£29m£13m
2023£68m£5.6m

Earlier years

2022£4.0m£3.5m
2021£2.9m£3.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 77%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO CARRY OUT ALL PURPOSES WHICH ARE CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES FROM TIME TO TIME FOR THE BENEFIT OF PERSONS IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BARKING AND DAGENHAM, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, SUPPORTING THE PROVISION OF HOUSING FOR THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH.

Grants received

12 grants · £1,632,353 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Lankelly Chase Foundation · £981,279 (7 grants)
City Bridge Trust · £557,574 (3 grants)
Barrow Cadbury Trust · £83,500
The National Lottery Community Fund · £10,000

Most recent

The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002025-10-16
City Bridge Trust £50,6742025-03-10
Lankelly Chase Foundation £220,0002023-11-16
Lankelly Chase Foundation £265,0002023-03-21
Barrow Cadbury Trust £83,5002023-02-07

Grants given

150 grants · £986,402 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top recipients

The Social Change Nest · £90,914
Barking and Dagenham Youth Dance limited · £63,475 (4 grants)
Humourisk CiC · £63,000 (2 grants)
Barking and Dagenham Youth Dance · £51,750 (2 grants)
Company Drinks CIC · £39,960 (6 grants)

Most recent

The Social Change Nest £90,9142025-08-25
Well Social £10,0002025-08-07
Final Checks Academy CIC £10,0002025-08-07
JDS Project £10,0002025-08-07
Elevate Together £10,0002025-08-07

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

8 trustees on the board

3.4y median 4y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Ian Parkes Chair since 2020

8.4y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

Nilesh Pandya since 2023

company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 8General Charitable Purposes 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 8Education 3Professional services 2

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£63.1m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

9 from 2 in 2021

EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details

Registered charity number: 1166335
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 18 DEC 2015INCORPORATED 18 DEC 2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 19 SEP 2017 as amended on 10 Jul 2020
Companies House: Company number 09922379 · Active
Contact on the register: 02082273205 · hello@bdgiving.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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