"At Company Drinks' we common our resources to grow ‘good company’ together - rooted in community care, co‑creation, and interdependence with each other and nature."
Company Drinks is a cultural drinks enterprise and community centre local to the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, where and expanding network of users, collaborators, and partners come together to pick, grow, make, learn, unlock, and share the resources and knowledge around us.
Company Drinks film (5min) from 2018.
Company Drinks Sales Brochure, 2025.
Situated in Barking Park it has a club social spaces, a production kitchen and garden. Company Drinks is shaped by the seasons and by those who are involved, and organised on Solidarity and Community Economy principles. The organisation is part of a larger community-focused ecosystem of care, that strives for an equal, just and non-discriminatory world. Since 2020 a group of local stakeholkers, known as the Dandelion Cirlces, co-steward the site and use it for their community offers and activities.
Company Drinks was set up by Kathrin Böhm from Myvillages with funding through the Create Art Award, and registered as a Community Interest Company in 2015. It and uses its art connections to challenge the role and use of art, and to trade.
La Foresta in Roveretto is home to the local north-italian version of Company Drinks: Comunita Frizzante since 2019.
In 2025 Gemeine Getränke start in n collaboration with ZKM Karlsruhe and the friends and users of Katzenwedelwiese in Karlsruhe.
Company Drinks table cloth for communal lunches and presentations
Trips to community gardens and organisations elsewhere, Bethnal Green Nature Reserve
Strawberry picking, Dagenham Farm
"Hopping" or "going picking" is part of east London's community heritage
Green Hop Tonic with collectively picked hops, 2018
Black Current Soda with communally gleaned fruit, 2019
2019 Drinks Family
Making the Countryside, exhibition
Dagenham marshes, before Ford Factories
Community Open Day, Company Drinks Pavilion and Garden2023, photo: Dominick Tyler
Company Drinks and Dandelion Circles mats, 2025
Shaun Tuck, head of community drinks, Frieze Art Fair London, 2025
BAD Cola, community cola, relaunch, 2024
Community economy based on dandelions, drawing by Sarina Mantle, 2024
The Economy as a drinks cabinet, drawing by Kathrin Böhm, 2015
Community Open Day at Company Drinks, 2024
Entrance to the Club Room
Community Stewardship workshop with Golden Sankofa, 2025
Company Drinks meets Comunita Frizzante, 2024
Company Drinks table cloth for communal lunches and presentations
Trips to community gardens and organisations elsewhere, Bethnal Green Nature Reserve
Strawberry picking, Dagenham Farm
"Hopping" or "going picking" is part of east London's community heritage
Green Hop Tonic with collectively picked hops, 2018
Black Current Soda with communally gleaned fruit, 2019
2019 Drinks Family
Making the Countryside, exhibition
Dagenham marshes, before Ford Factories
Community Open Day, Company Drinks Pavilion and Garden2023, photo: Dominick Tyler
Company Drinks and Dandelion Circles mats, 2025
Shaun Tuck, head of community drinks, Frieze Art Fair London, 2025
BAD Cola, community cola, relaunch, 2024
Community economy based on dandelions, drawing by Sarina Mantle, 2024
The Economy as a drinks cabinet, drawing by Kathrin Böhm, 2015
Community Open Day at Company Drinks, 2024
Entrance to the Club Room
Community Stewardship workshop with Golden Sankofa, 2025
Company Drinks meets Comunita Frizzante, 2024