1. How to Build a Community

2. Turn off the TV

3. Leave your House

4. Know your Neighbours

5. Use your local Library Shops Parks Schools

6. Be Kind to People

7. Turn Up/Down Music

8. Fix it… Even if you didn’t break it!

9. Ask for Help when you Need it

10. Pick Up Litter

11. Start a Tradition

12. Dance … Whenever you feel like it

13. Help Carry Something Heavy

14. Listen to the Birds And Feed Them!

15. Bake Extra and Share

16. Plant Things

17. Know that No One is Silent … Though many are not Heard

18. Work to Change This

19. Enjoy Yourself! Strangers are the friends we haven’t yet met – they are simply UNDISCOVERED

20. Timebanking is a structure that helps achieve all of these things

21. People are assets The real wealth of any society is its people. Every individual has valuable experience, skills and connections to contribute to the wellbeing of others in their local community. Redefining work Activities such as bringing up children, caring for people, keeping communities safe, fighting injustice and making democracy work have to be recognised and rewarded as real work. Working together We need each other. Giving and receiving are the basic building blocks of positive social relationships and healthy communities. Improving our communities Belonging to a mutually supportive and secure social network brings more meaning to our lives and new opportunities to rebuild our trust in one another. Empowerment The voices of those we are helping must be respected, amplified, responded to and acted upon.

22. What do communities that include people with disabilities and older people look like?

23. How a Timebank works Local people list all the skills and activities that they are happy to share with others Time credits are used as a medium of exchange; an hour’s activity earns each person one time credit Everyone agrees to ‘give and take’, to both earn and spend time credits in their community The time credits that people earn are deposited in their individual timebank ‘accounts’, at the time bank People can spend their time credits on the skills and activities on offer from the community, or donate them to a ‘community pot’ Details of everyone’s skills and of the exchanges that take place are recorded on the time bank computer and used by the ‘time- broker’ to match people up with the tasks that need to be done. Everyone is an equal and valued member of the time bank

24. How a Timebank works

25. To think about....... What do you want to get out of a time bank? Who can help you get started? What groups already exist in your area? Where will you base yourself? What resources have you got? (Telephone, computer, information, people) How will you tell people about time banking and get them to join? Have you got some basic rules for exchanges that everyone can agree to? What action do you need to take now?