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This week Barking and Dagenham Council is kicking off a new campaign to celebrate residents and everything that makes them unique.

Running through the rest of the year, #thisisme is designed to tell the very different stories of local people, and showcase what makes them the individuals they are today.

Barking and Dagenham residents will have their pick of a range of opportunities in construction including apprenticeships and training opportunities available from at least 12 local housing and construction companies at the construction jobs fair.

There are apprenticeship opportunities for electricians, carpenters, plumbers, bricklayers, civil engineering, land survey technicians and business; vacancies for drivers, technicians and sales consultants. There will also be opportunities to sign up for graduate trainee schemes.

Council enforcement officers have issued 28 fines as part of ongoing work to clean up Sunningdale Avenue in Barking.

 

The enforcement operation took place after residents fed back that people were regularly dumping rubbish and littering the street. 

 

Barking and Dagenham residents are being provided advice and tips to help them stay safe in their own homes and to be wise to the dangers posed by bogus callers.

 

Bogus callers are criminals who try to trick their way into your home by saying that they work for an organisation such as the council or NHS, or from gas, water or electricity supply companies, the fire brigade, trading standards, or even the police. 

Over 70 young people from a number of Barking and Dagenham schools came together this week as part of an orchestra and choir.

Primary Music Day took place at Barking Abbey School for the first time and with six primary schools participating.

The orchestra consisted of a large number of instruments including the flute, clarinet, violin, viola, trumpet, piano plus many more. 

Did you know that there are a number of community orchards in Barking and Dagenham, and that you can help look after them?

The Orchard Project is an organisation that brings community orchards to cities and towns across the country. They’re heading to Central Park in Dagenham on Wednesday 27 March, to offer practical classes on how to care for fruit trees so that you can enjoy the fruit that they produce at harvest time.

Barking and Dagenham Council has won this year’s LGC Entrepreneurial Council Award for its ‘whole council’ approach to commercialisation.

The award recognises how councils are not only generating income but continuing to provide services to their most vulnerable residents despite huge financial challenges.

Improvement works to the play equipment and sporting facilities in Dagenham’s Valence Park are nearing completion, with the revamped recreation area set to open with a launch event on Tuesday 26 March.

The opening ceremony will be taking place from 3pm at Valence Park, where a whole host of activities will be on offer to residents.

New CCTV images have been released of people illegally dumping rubbish in Barking and Dagenham as part of the fifteenth CCTV Appeal video. 

Barking and Dagenham Council will help to create safer roads and pavements and a fairer approach to parking across the borough by extending controlled parking zones (CPZs) across more than local 100 roads.

The four zones will be operational from Monday 1 July 2019. 

Only eligible residents and businesses who have applied for a permit will able to park within the zones during set times, and residents will need to purchase visitor permits.