How To Turn Your Building
into a Time Bank Community

A time bank is just a formal way of mapping the way a community works; it's just good neighbours giving and taking, and helping each other. You don't have to be a formal time bank to make your building a friendlier, happier, healthier community.  You don't even have to live a large building; all you need is an interest in history, or your community, or a hobby or practical advice you would like to share with others.


Chenies Street Chambers  shows you how to set up a group of interested people to research the history of your building, and how to set up community projects for the people of the building, such as historical prints, a book exchange, a communal garden, choosing the colours for the communal corridors, setting up a Friends of the Garden or Friends of the Park Club.


Setting Up a Residents' Association shows you how to set up a grassroots, democratic Residents' Association where everyone is invited to be involved, and everyone is welcomed. It includes a recommended Residents' Association Constitution for your building, and it also offers advice on how to complain effectively.

HOW WE LIVE NOW  lets you look critically at your building, to see if there are things you could improve. Although it is set up to map the well-being of people in large multi-residential buildings,  even if you own your own home, take the test! You may find you're your own slumlord!  The site offers advice on fire hazards, damp, pests such as cockroaches, and suggests low-maintenance, wonderful plants for your garden.

ACCESS FOR ALL  gives you important information about preparing your home and building for life, making it accessible to people with disabilities. It also has a list of arts places which are easily accessible for all people.

PARKS is a resource website for people thinking of setting up a Friends of the Park for their local Park or Village Green and it includes things like Arts in The Parks, Dog-Walking, working with your local Council, guerilla gardening, and also the Purple Poets' own 2009 Project  'The Poetry Tree' (painting designated benches around trees in parks purple, and using them as spaces to recite poetry).

What is a Time Bank?
(Vanessa Gould)


Recommended Residents' Association Constitution


TIME BANKS UK CONSTITUTION
articles of association, 
memorandum of association (pdf file)

TIME BANKING UK AGM MINUTES 2009 (Blackpool)

Purple Poets Cook!
Recipes and Poems from the Time Bank Café
(including Aria's  home-made 5 minute Scientific Ice Cream)

SHOW US YOUR SHORTS (YouTube project)
inspired by a Workshop by Gareth Edwards, 2006

book exchange boxes

mapping democracy

Art for All

Access for All

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: LONDON ARTS EVENTS
(click here to see reviews)
amongst other events:
Hiroshima Day Commemoration every August 6th, Tavistock Square
Haliburton Evening (Network Canada) The Pembroke Pub, April 21st 2009
DIVERS book launch, Pentameters Theatre, June 29th 2008
Louise Bourgeouis Exhibition, Tate Modern, October 2007 - Jan. 2008
Playwright LENNOX RAPHAEL "The State of Black Theatre"
(panel discussion at 2 p.m. 13.10.2007) WORD POWER FESTIVAL
TWO MEN TALKING (Paul Browde) June 5 - 23 2007
coffee-house poetry at the Troubadour (alternate Mondays, on-going)



The Purple Poets' on-going list of Borough of Camden Heroes
(for Camden Postcard Poem Inspiration)
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Time Banks and Time Banking The Four Core Values

1. We treat people as assets. We support the positive actions people can and want to do for their community. 2. We are re-defining work Regardless of the task,   everyone's time is valued equally we value whatever it takes to make neighbourhoods safe and vibrant. 3.We reciprocate. We require that everyone gives something back ensuring all in our society have the opportunity to be involved in their community. 4. We support the development of social networks. These require ongoing investments of social capital generated by trust, reciprocity and civic engagement.

TBUK
Time Banking UK,
The Exchange,
Brick Row,
Stroud GL5 1DF
Tel: 01453 750952
info@timebanks.co.uk

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Bloomsbury Time Bank
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contact Ferdous Rahman
rahmanferdous AT hotmail.co.uk
mailing address: The Purple Poets
c/o Flat 18 Chenies Street Chambers
Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7ET

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