Every 6 weeks we’re meeting up with the Company Drinks Keyholders; a group of artists, gardeners, volunteers, creatives, makers and organisers who run their own community activities at our pavilion and garden. We talk about what people are up to, find ways of working together; including how to spend £5,000, which has been given to the group by BD Giving, with support from Lankelly Chase.

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The Company Drinks Keyholders are a group of independent artists, organisers, community minded residents, gardeners, makers, historians, crafters or foodies; each is involved in a separate community or volunteer group activity at the Company Drinks Pavilion in Barking Park.

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Every 6 week we sit down with a cup of tea and a slice of cake to talk about what we’re doing, what we need, what we’d like to learn, what we’d like to share with each other.

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In the coming months we’ll be making decisions together to spend a Participatory Funding grant, with support from BD Giving and Lankelly Chase. We’re testing out ‘Spending £5K together’ so that we can trial new ways of collaboration, sharing resources and growing our community impact,

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Keyholders group activities include:

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Sarina Mantle

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Children’s art classes with Sarina Mantle: the Barking-based visual artist from London,  author of a colouring book called Women + Patterns + Plants, mother, singer-songwriter and founder of Wildsuga in 2008.

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Find out more about Sarina at www.wildsuga.com and on instagram.

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Art From the Start

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