how to build a community. turn off the tv leave your house
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How to Build How to Build a Communitya Community
Turn off the TVTurn off the TV
Leave your HouseLeave your House
Know your NeighboursKnow your Neighbours
Use your localUse your local
Be Kind to PeopleBe Kind to People
Turn Up/Down MusicTurn Up/Down Music
Fix it…Fix it…
Even if you didn’t break it!
Ask for Help when you Ask for Help when you Need itNeed it
Pick Up LitterPick Up Litter
Start a TraditionStart a Tradition
DanceDance……
Whenever you feel like it
Help Carry Help Carry Something Something
HeavyHeavy
Listen to the BirdsListen to the Birds
And Feed And Feed Them!Them!
Bake Extra Bake Extra and Shareand Share
Plant ThingsPlant Things
Know that Know that No One is No One is Silent …Silent …Though Though many are not many are not HeardHeard
Work to Work to Change Change ThisThis
Enjoy Enjoy Yourself!Yourself!
Strangers are the friends we haven’t yet met – they
are simply UNDISCOVERED
Timebanking is a Timebanking is a structure that helps structure that helps achieve all of these achieve all of these
thingsthings
• 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.
What do communities that include people with
disabilities and older people look like?
How a Timebank worksHow 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
How a Timebank worksHow a Timebank works
To think about.......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?