Bloomsbury Time Bank
think purple! think poets!
The Purple Poets
workshop leader: Kim Morrissey
A Short History of Time
(online)
Bloomsbury Time Bank member
(and secret poet)
Sarah Kazlova writes:
I started at Timebanking UK in August 2005, and one of the first things that
time banks were asking for was new software. They wanted new functionality
not provided by the current American TimeKeeper and they also wanted the
ability to share time credits nationally between time banks.
Time Online began its first incarnation in early 2006 after extensive
consultation with a specific user group made up of time bank brokers. It
wasn't fully released until spring of 2006 following another round of feedback
sessions. This has been how Time Online has continued ever since,
with updates and changes being made following member consultation. The name
Time Online was actually decided at the 2006 conference in Cardiff
following a competition in which Julie Baxter of Fair Shares Gloucester
won.
It is a secure broker-lead system, which is fully customisable to the way
the time bank is run. There are currently 105 time banks using Time
Online, which makes it the number one system in the UK.
One of the major benefits of this software being done in-house is that brokers
can ring us for support or one-off reports if they aren't already available
on the extensive reporting system.
April 2010 saw the first tentative steps at a pilot for individual members
of time banks to log in to the software to manage their own exchanges. Members
can view their details, check their statement and search available services
to request one - this request goes via the broker who then sets up the exchange.
Members cannot currently see or contact other members directly, as this has
been an area that is very controversial, particularly with vulnerable adults
in the time bank.
Sarah Kazlova, Stroud, 22.08.2011
Bloomsbury Time Bank
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The Purple Poets' Poetry Workshop is hosted by The Bloomsbury Time Bank,
which is a cashless, member-led, vitual TIme Bank affiliated with Time Banking
UK
(Stroud).
Various London time
bank poetry groups were founded in 2005 as part of a London-wide poetry group
scheme administered by nef and funded by the Lottery for Time Banks
with a grant from The Arts Council. Over the years, from that first
encouragement for form a group, The Purple Poets' champions have
included primarily The West Euston Time Bank (thanks for applying for
all the grants through all those years for us Tony!), Camden Council grants,
The Carnegie Trust, City BridgeTrust, The Third Age Project (thanks
for all the hours of work, Urmi!) , and the new economics
foundation.
The
Purple Poets were funded from May 2005 to August
2010 by the West Euston Time Bank, and many of their projects
were with the help of their fellow members from the Third Age Project.
20.20.2010. The Purple Poets now host themselves at the Bloomsbury Time
Bank.
PURPLE POETS
TIME BANK
LINKS:
What is a Time Bank?
(Vanessa Gould)
Turning Your
Building into a Time Bank
Recommended Residents'
Association Constitution
TIME BANKS UK CONSTITUTION
articles of association,
memorandum of association (pdf file)
a short history of Time Banks UK's
timeonline
TIME BANKING UK AGM MINUTES 2009
(Blackpool)
Purple Poets Cook!
Poetry on a Platter:
Recipes and Poems from the Time Bank Café
(including Aria's home-made 5 minute Scientific Ice Cream)
Pop UP Poetry Picnics and
Purple Poetry Tree Bench projects
(and how to create your own Friends of the Park)
National Poetry Day celebrations
Purple Poets (up-coming events)
Purple Poets (on-going
projects)
Purple Poets (past events)
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
Fitzrovian Poetry Workshop
(founded April 1st, 2009, first workshop leaders
Kim Morrissey on loan from WETB (to May 2010) with Barry Cole)
LOCAL
BLOOMSBURY HISTORY:
MARCHMONT ASSOCIATION
OTHER TIME BANK POETRY GROUPS
(circa 2006)
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: LONDON ARTS EVENTS
(click here to see reviews)
amongst other events:
 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
June 5 - 23 2007
coffee-house
poetry at the Troubadour (alternate Mondays,
on-going)
ART and The Crypt (Munster Square)
London Strategy
For Older People's Group (LOPSG)
(Capital Age Festival)
Camden Heroes: Postcard Poems
The Purple Poets' on-going list of Borough of Camden
Heroes
(for Camden Postcard Poem Inspiration)
ARCHIVES: Berkeley's Tree House Virtual Poetry
Café
(2006 National Poetry Day Internet
Project)
ARCHIVES: First Norah Platt Poetry Prize
2006
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Time Banking UK,
The Exchange,
Brick Row,
Stroud GL5 1DF
Tel: 01453 750952
info@timebanks.co.uk
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Kim Morrissey
mailing address for The Purple Poets
c/o Flat 18 Chenies Street Chambers
London WCiE 7ET
or contact Ferdous Rahman
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