Humans of Bonny Downs
Meet Sharmin
Meet Sharmin, a regular attendee of our exercise classes and now our Women’s Sports Facilitator:
Humans of Bonny Downs
Humans of Bonny Downs
News
Festive joy roundup!
Joy is one of BDCA’s strategic priorities since our community asked us to help them re-discover joy after the hardships of Covid-19 and the Cost-of-Living Crisis. Over the Christmas period, our staff and volunteers delivered opportunities for joy through a variety of events to hundreds of local residents! Beat the January blues by re-living the joy through the summary below:
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Creativity and Community through Food Bank Art
Volunteers at Bonny Downs Foodbank have started a weekly arts and crafts table where people can sit, colour and chat while waiting for their hot meal or a food parcel.
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Humans of Bonny Downs
Meet Fatima
Meet Fatima, an attendee of our Children and Families Family Hub:
Fatima’s story: “This place feels like home.”
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Impact Reports
Our Impact Report 2023
Our 2023 Impact Report shares our achievements and progress from the year.
Thank you for your support over that has made this possible, and we hope you enjoy reading the report!
Please note that the viewer may not display properly on all phones, so feel free to download the report instead.
The stories, photos and statistics in this report are from 1 October 2022 – 30 September 2023, unless otherwise specified.
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Our Chair receives Honorary Freedom of the Borough Award
David Mann, Chair of Bonny Downs Community Association, received Honorary Freedom of the Borough award at the Newham Civic Award Ceremony on 5th December 2023. This is the highest award that Newham Council gives to residents (who are not former councillors) to recognise the significant contribution they have made in the borough.
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How our Food Club is making a difference
Since it launched in September 2022, our Community Food Club has served 457 residents with discounted food and essentials! It was also recently featured in The Times.
Our Food Club provides an important option for people struggling with the Cost-of-Living crisis even though many of them are working. For £5 fee they receive 20 tokens to buy items they need ranging from fresh fruit and vegetables to cleaning products, which typically are worth over £20.
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Vote for us in The Big Vote!
BDCA has been shortlisted as one of the People Powered Place projects that could get up to £20,000 funding – with your help!
Please vote for our project ‘VolunteE6 – Bonny Downs Community Association’ to help us cover costs of our volunteer led activities for children and families.
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New Bhangra Fitness Class for Women
We are delighted to pilot a new session for women called Bhangra Fitness, led by local fitness instructor Munza. The project is thanks to funding from Boost Charitable Trust, which means the session is free for local ladies to attend!
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Changes to Bonny Downs Nursery
Bonny Downs Nursery was set up as a social enterprise to help bring in money to support the wider charitable work of BDCA. Since its inception, BDCA has been working hard to attract customers to make our nursery financially stable. Some of our own staff rely on the nursery for their childcare.
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