InStreet SpacebyManisha Pandey·Oct 29, 2019A day in the life of Valence Park ActivationInsights & reflections from a relational way of park activation from the ground up
InStreet SpacebyManisha Pandey·Sep 13, 2019The Power of a StoryIn Asset Based Community Development (ABCD), the work of Cormac Russell and others, the idea and the practice of community work begins…
Dagenham Days.·Mar 3, 2016A snapshot of Dorothy SteptoeMy mum’s life before she became Mrs Redmond is still pretty much a guessing game. There are lots of suggestions of where she had been and…
Dagenham Days.·Mar 2, 2016Big BrotherMy eldest brother, he was the one who started my interest in my mum’s unknown family. His blunt history lesson he gave me within an hour of…
Dagenham Days.·Feb 25, 2016Subway.Before the parades of shops in Dagenham became home to pawn shops, cash converters and charity stores there was a different type of shop…
Dagenham Days.·Feb 22, 2016Five a day.On the corner of Parsloes Avenue and The Heathway stood Gipps, a fresh fruit and veg store, well actually more of a market stall that…
Dagenham Days.·Feb 16, 2016Cold calling.After several attempts the nervous voice at the end of the phone finally quits with excuses, he sounds like my dad which comforts and…
Dagenham Days.·Feb 16, 2016The Dirty Den.Reaching teenage years my parents weren’t too keen on us having our mates round, so my dad built us a shed. It was so cool, sat beneath the…
Dagenham Days.·Feb 14, 2016Chopper Squad.I’m not sure if the world was a safer place to be a child in the 70s, but thankfully I survived it without too much bother.
Dagenham Days.·Feb 13, 2016Dagenham Days.Pulling up and parking my car in a resident only parking bay the thought of a fixed penalty or worse a wheel clamp seemed a minor…
