1. THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME Time Banking Conference May 2006 Cardiff

2. Time Banking in the UK Since 1998 there have 138 projects Community Development, Social Care, Health and Well-being, Environmental, Schools, Training, Housing, Volunteering, Offender Management, Early Years…… Community Development, Social Care, Health and Well-being, Environmental, Schools, Training, Housing, Volunteering, Offender Management, Early Years…… ….and here in Wales in a Workmen’s Hall in the Valleys – “Friends in Time”. ….and here in Wales in a Workmen’s Hall in the Valleys – “Friends in Time”.

3. SOCIAL INNOVATIONS 7 world-changing social innovations 1. Open University 2. Fair Trade 3. Greenpeace 4. Amnesty International 5. Oxfam 6. Women’s Institute 7. Linux software

4. Ingredients in common Heroic individual? A great idea Struggle against vested interests Contagious courage

5. Time Banking is a Powerful Idea One for one Something for something A fair exchange – ‘give and take’ A chance to pay back – and pay it forward

6. The Chaordic model

7. The Common Good Doing things together leads to better understanding - then to pooling efforts and then to ‘citizenship’ Doing things together leads to better understanding - then to pooling efforts and then to ‘citizenship’ Media and entertainment Media and entertainment By standing By standing Passive consumers Passive consumers Virtual communities Virtual communities

8. We have policy value Green paper on adult social care Powering up communities Volunteering Double Devolution

9. A practical and adaptable tool 138 experiments 138 experiments Nine models Nine models No ‘killer application’ No ‘killer application’ Strong knowledge base Strong knowledge base Experienced time brokers Experienced time brokers Membership organisation Membership organisation New online ‘time keeper’ New online ‘time keeper’

10. Plan of action Clear evidence base Clear evidence base Stick to our values Stick to our values Communicate Communicate Adapt and apply the system Adapt and apply the system Conversations into commitments Conversations into commitments Develop regionally Develop regionally Listen to the people who are doing it Listen to the people who are doing it

11. Shaping up Consolidate relationship with projects Consolidate relationship with projects Model co-production Model co-production Build the network Build the network Promote to the general public Promote to the general public

12. Up for Change and Unpredictability Time banking has potential to join the list of social innovations that have changed the world Time banking has potential to join the list of social innovations that have changed the world Why make things difficult when they can be done together? Why make things difficult when they can be done together?