Company Drinks

Role; Creative Producer and Head of Access
Barking Park, London
2017 onwards
Scope – Project management of all capital works and building renovation, Producing all large scale festivals, fetes and events in Barking Park, fundraising support for the organisation and ensuring the building and events are physically and culturally accessible. 

Company Drinks is a community space and social enterprise based in Barking and Dagenham, where we make drinks with and for each other. Company Drinks started out in 2014 to bring people back together through the act of picking and reconnecting with local green spaces and nearby countryside.

Company Drinks is now a co-working space and an expanding network of users, collaborators and partners, who come together to pick, grow, make, learn, unlock and share the resources and knowledge around us.

Like the seasons, Company Drinks changes and adapts, and is shaped by those who are involved. We collaborate and champion the ideas of those around us, encourage each other to re-imagine new ways of working, trading and existing together, through conversation, care and good company.

Company Drinks was set up in as an art commission, and registered as a Community Interest Company in 2015. We see ourselves as part of a larger community-focused ecosystem of care, that strives for an equal, just and non-discriminatory world.

I have worked as their producer on several projects over the last 4 years, including working with them to renovate and re-imagine their building in Barking Park, currently undergoing refurbishment to make it fully accessible. I am also leading them through a programme of antiracism to ensure that we are not furthering any damaging systems.