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David and Tracy have a story to tell. It involves a coffee shop, a community centre and a church. Actually, they’re all linked, but David and Tracy didn’t realise this at first. They tell their story wherever they go, to anyone who’s interested and has time to listen. It’s a story worth hearing – a story of hope, friendship, belonging and faith. A story of transformation. They explain how life started to change for them when they discovered The Corner Coffee House – a small artisan coffee shop set up by Community Resources amidst a sea of fast-food outlets and

Various rooms, full of Barking & Dagenham residents from every neck of this London borough have pondered this question over the past 18 months. They’ve also asked what could this scarf, Sellotape, coathanger, paperhook, post-it note and many other objects too numerous to mention be the solution to. But why? It’s been part of an experiment to disrupt the way we approach issues we see, and open up a space where we define the issues that matter to us in our community, before starting to discover what the best solution might be – prototyping it by ideating, testing, failing, refining

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