Equality and Diversity Community Fund
Each year we organise a range of events and projects to celebrate and promote equality and diversity within the borough - these are mostly highlighted in our Equality and Diversity Calendar (see below).
Charities and community groups play an important role in delivering these events. One of the aims of the Borough Manifesto is greater community cohesion and ensuring that change in our community is resident led.
The Equality and Diversity Community Fund will allow local charities and community groups to take a greater role in delivering events related to the Barking and Dagenham Equality and Diversity Calendar, creating new and engaging projects that will benefit our residents. These projects should promote social inclusion, celebrate diversity, and support equality through providing opportunities for people with protected characteristics.
There are four funding windows throughout the year to apply, if you are not successful with your first application then we encourage you to apply again!
Funding Season (2019-2020) | Deadline for applications | Decision panel will convene | Successful bids announced |
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Summer | 16 August 2019 (deadline extended) | 19 to 23 August | Week commencing 26 August |
Autumn | 10 November 2019 | 11 to 15 November | Week commencing 18 November |
Winter | 2 February 2020 | 10 to 14 February | Week commencing 17 February |
Spring | 30 April 2020 | 11 to 15 May | Week commencing 18 May |
Equality and Diversity Community Fund application form
Application form and guidance
Please read the guidance notes to help you apply for the Fund. If you have difficulties using the online form, you can download a version of the form below. Please email the completed application form and supplementary documents to CE-Strategy@lbbd.gov.uk. .
Equality and Diversity Fund guidance (PDF, 230 KB)
Equality and Diversity Fund Application form (DOCX, 71 KB)
Equality and Diversity Calendar
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- 4 January - World Braille Day
- 20 January - World Religion Day
- 27 January - Holocaust Memorial Day
- 31 January - Young Carers Awareness Day
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- LGBT History Month
- 5 February - Chinese New Year
- 6 February - International Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM
- 16 February - Lithuanian Independence Day
- 20 February - World Day of Social Justice
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- Women’s Empowerment Month
- 6 March - Ghanaian Independence Day (Flag)
- 8 March - International Women’s Day
- 12 March - Commonwealth Day (Flag)
- 16 March - Disabled Access Day
- 20 to 21 March - Holi festival
- 21 March - International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- 26 March - Bangladesh Independence Day (Flag)
- 31 March - International Transgender Day of Visibility
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- 1 to 7 April - World Autism Awareness Week
- 19 to 27 April - Passover
- 21 April - Easter Sunday
- 22 April - Stephen Lawrence Day
- 23 April - St George’s Day (Flag)
- 26 April - Lesbian Visibility Day
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- 6 May - Ramadan begins
- 13 to 19 May - Mental Health Awareness Week
- 17 May - International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia
- 20 to 26 May - National Dementia Action Week
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- 5 June - Eid-ul-Fitr
- 10 to 16 June - Carers Week
- 17 to 23 June - Learning Disability Week
- 20 June - World Refugee Day
- 22 June - Windrush Day (Flag)
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- 6 July - Pride London
- 11 July - Remembering Srebrenica (Flag)
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- 11 August - Edi al-Adha
- 12 August - International Youth Day
- 14 August - Pakistan Independence Day (Flag)
- 15 August - Indian Independence Day (Flag)
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- 10 September - World Suicide Prevention Day
- 21 September - World Alzheimer’s Day
- 23 September - Bisexual Visibility Day
- 29 September - Rosh Hashanah
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- Black History Month
- 1 October - Nigerian Independence Day (Flag)
- 1 October - Older People’s Day
- 8 October - Yom Kippur
- 10 October - World Mental Health Awareness Day
- 11 October - National Coming Out Day
- 11 October - International Day of the Girl Child
- 12 to 19 October - Hate Crime Awareness Week
- 15 October - Baby Loss Awareness (Flag)
- 27 October - Diwali
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- 11 November - Remembrance Day 11th - Interfaith Week
- 11to 15 November - Anti-Bullying Week
- 18 November - International Men’s Day
- 20 November - Transgender Day of Remembrance (Flag)
- 21 November - UK Disability History Month begins
- 25 November - International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women / White Ribbon Day - followed by 16 days of activity
- 28 November - Albanian Independence Day (Flag)
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- 1 December - World AIDS day
- 3 December - International day of persons with disabilities (Flag)
- 10 December - Human Rights Day
- 18 December - International Migrants Day
- 25 December - Christmas Day