On March the 8th 2016 both Sarah and Nicole visited the Creative Barking and Dagenham (CBD) project. They met with Helen Ball, engagement director, and a group of five Cultural Connectors who have all been directly involved in the decision making processes choosing artists to lead CBD commissions. Following their visit Sarah Butler and Nicole Mollett reflected and exchanged thoughts on the project, focusing on the theme ‘Decision Making’.

The drawing, by Nicole Mollett is titled 'The people come first' and is of the Dagenham Idol.

On 8^th Feb, Ideas Test kindly invited me to join their reflection day in their new offices at Number 34 Sittingbourne High Street – a creative space with a welcoming public shop front and upstairs office and workshop space.

Led by Tom Andrews from People United, the day brought the whole Ideas Test team together to reflect on the programme so far; to talk about what has worked and what hasn’t; to think about the ‘intangibles’ as Tom put it – about what got people ‘right here’ – putting his hand to his chest as he spoke.

a list of practical, problematic terms – used within the Creative People and Places programme – and their contradictory, shifting, uncertain meanings