The Time Of Our Lives: Using time banking for neighbourhood renewal and community capacity building

in IRE web site in the CoreDem

by Gill Seyfang, Karen Smith, New Economics Foundation, 2002

Keywords : local - poverty and inequalities - social capital - human capital - cooperation - solidarity

Language : English

This report written by Gill Seyfang and Karen Smith is the culmination of two years research on time banks around the UK. Time banks are succeeding in re-building trust and social capital, and are attracting into volunteering the very people who normally take part least – including claimants, disabled people, those with a long term illness and non-white British ethnic groups. The executive summary can be downloaded here, or the full report can purchased from the publisher with money and some time credits. Of course!

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Sources

Seyfang, Gill, and Karen Smith, The Time Of Our Lives: Using time banking for neighbourhood renewal and community capacity building, London: New Economics Foundation, 2002.

External links

Time Banks UK

Tel: 0870 7027428

Email: info@timebanks.co.uk

Web: www.timebanks.co.uk

Fair Shares

Tel: 01452 541337

Email: fairshares@blueyonder.co.uk

Web: www.fairshares.org.uk

London Time Bank Network

Tel: 020 7089 2823

Email: info@londontimebank.org.uk