South East Timebanking regional hub meeting

Sarah Bird writes:

We have an exciting addition to the content of our South East Timebanking hub meeting! Paul Crosland of the St Leonards Sharing TB will be holding a taster session on ‘Social Media’ which will include an exercise on how to prepare an elevator pitch for your time bank, as well as some discussion around YouTube and how it could help your time bank.

 A reminder about the venue and timings: WHEN: Thursday 3rd May TIME: 12 noon to 3pm (lunch provided at 12) WHERE: With thanks to Angela Butcher of the Circles Network Time Bank, Burgess Hill, West Sussex TRAVEL INFO: Close to rail station (Burgess Hill) – few minutes walk. Circles Network The Old Post Office Resource Centre 30-32 Station Road Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 9DS Telephone: Zero1444 236 593

THEMES TO BE COVERED:

•  New time banks in the SE – round table discussion about a time bank ‘buddy’ system.
• Dealing with vulnerable/homeless time bank members – safety, CRB and enabling exchanges to take place. ·
• Timebanking v Volunteering – what is the difference? · 
• OPEN TOPICS (your chance to raise issues and air your views) 
• AND NOW ALSO A TASTER SESSION ON THE BENEFITS OF SOCIAL MEDIA!

lets discuss this?

#Hastings -We only need money to the extent that we haven't developed our: giving, freelending, #timebanking & sustainable communities
(From http://twitter.com/paulcrosland)

For More Search on YouTube for "The Cost of Living in St Leonards" or "The Moneyless Man" Comments below please & why not subscribe to the YoutUbe channel most strongly promoting Timebanking in East Sussex: http://youtube.com/toothpaste007 ?

Some comments received via the "expression of interest" form below

1. How do I join your committee so that I can make all my other committee work Timebank credit-worthy?
2. I was a member of GEMS for many years, but stopped paying my sub because, after putting in many hours for others and earning many GEMS, people who listed services would not actually do them!
3. Hello, I am really keen to get involved with this scheme, hoping someone will get back to me and let me know how I can start.
4. I don't mind meeting in a cafe or someone's home - but can't put both in on this system! I don't know how much I can get involved with this but think its a great idea and would like to be kept informed of what's happening! Thank-you! JO
5. I am very, very interested in this project and would love to be involved.

When a "Critical Mass" of expressions of interest have been received via the on-line form, then a meeting will be convened. Meanwhile Wednesday mornings at the Southwater Area Community Centre 10.30-12.30 are the most likely time to find me in the office there (marked Mediation Support Ltd on the outside buzzer but used by the whole St Leonards Sharing Consortium); because this is the time of the week with a high footfall of users of the building -buying fruit and veg.

(Future "St Leonards Sharing" timebank plans for making veg available through timebank credits are on http://east-sussex-veg-people.blogspot.com)

By all means text/phone to check that I'll be around or arrange a mutually convenient time for a tea & chat about Timebanking with me or Erica Tate.

Kind regards

Paul Crosland

Find your nearest Timebank

Congratulations if you are looking for the nearest Timebanking UK registered timebank to St Leonards, Hastings, Bexhill and the rural areas of the Rother District (East Sussex).
If you are looking for a timebank in another location, this is the link for Timebanking UK's "find your nearest timebank"

Why has the St Leonards Sharing Timebank been set up?

The timebank's strapline (on www.stleonardssharing.org) is currently "- linking Hastings, Bexhill & all who want to unlock their power & skills: caring4all" . The vision is that a timebank allied to ways in which people share items as well as time (eg streetbank.com or our own www.freelender.org) will re-connect communities at a deeper level and enable more collective support. For those who want, delayed entry into residential care – or care within a household as a product of neighbours learning to care more for each other.

One vital set of skills to be traded are those about accessing the wealth of the internet. Sadly, I have recently heard in detail of hundreds of pounds being swindled by phone from elderly people by purporting to offer internet help (with possible identity theft attempts being made alongside).

This makes the need for trusted support within a neighbourhood more pressing.

Some of the 'why?' answer is in the history of transactions so far.

The first organisation to organisation transaction within the St Leonards timebank was for a training from www.centreforpeacefulsolutions.org (saving all £6000 of the would-be costs without timebanking). The second organisation to organisation transaction has been to set up an agreement with Sussex Police to provide Restorative Justice services (generating greater community safety in the aftermath of a crime).

Kind regards
Paul
0780 70 66 202 - if a call will work better for you than an email?

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