FOI - Participatory City Foundation [Oct 2026]

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide all information held regarding the Good Growth Fund award to Participatory City Foundation for the creation of Everyone's Warehouse at 47 Thames Road, Barking.

Please include: the application and assessment documents; the grant agreement and its conditions; all monitoring and evaluation reports submitted by the grantee; any conditions relating to the disposal of grant-funded assets; and any correspondence regarding compliance with those conditions at the close of the project in 2023 and 2024.

Our response

Please find attached the information we hold within the scope of your request.

Please note that the project officer for this has now left the GLA so some of our records are incomplete / no longer held.

Additional information provided via third party consultation:

When bringing the Every One, Every Day demonstration project to a close in 2023, the Charity went to great lengths, through a widely consulted upon and robust process, to ensure that all assets under the control of Participatory City were wherever possible allocated to community groups in Barking and Dagenham, and that where this was not possible, or there was no demand, equipment and materials, etc. were sold and the income retained locally in the Borough.

This link includes a schedule of where the assets were in the Borough after their transfer to community groups at the time: Asset Rehousing — Every One Every Day

With regards to the Warehouse in Thames Street, the short-term lease provided by the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham to Participatory City Foundation was terminated as part of the closure of the project and the asset returned to the control of the Council, which assumed responsibility for determining its future use.