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RURAL TIME BANKING

RURAL TIME BANKING. (of the reciprocal kind). What’s coming around. Social exclusion in rural and urban areas Facts about village life today Exclusive countryside Bridges to participation Growing your time bank The global suicide economy Food with the farmers face on it. Scattered

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RURAL TIME BANKING

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  1. RURAL TIME BANKING (of the reciprocal kind)

  2. What’s coming around • Social exclusion in rural and urban areas • Facts about village life today • Exclusive countryside • Bridges to participation • Growing your time bank • The global suicide economy • Food with the farmers face on it

  3. Scattered Affordability of housing Low pay and seasonality Concentrated Quality of housing Unemployment SOCIAL EXCLUSIONRURAL URBAN

  4. More rural realities • Distance • Isolation • Poor access to jobs & services • Urban myth of the rural idyll • Tradition of self sufficiency • Bartering • Self contained and mutually supportive

  5. Facts About Village Life Today • 1.4 million of people have no academic qualifications • 70% rural parishes = no village shop • 83% no GP in parish • 49% no school • 75% no daily bus service • Low income folk need 10,000 new affordable homes per annum, or second home owners could move out? • Average income £9,900pa (1999) • Ref: Countryside Agency

  6. “Exclusive Countryside” • Lack of visibility = harder to address social exclusion • Dispersal among affluent means area based work insufficient • New approaches to capacity building are required – no top down agendas, partnerships, short term funding • Transport is the major barrier – reducing car ownership will only probably make things worse • Progressive gentrification = spatial exclusion • Mark Shucksmith – Joseph Rowntree Foundation

  7. Bridges to participation • Self employment • Transport solutions • Accessible training • Child care solutions • Support networks and the informal economy Joseph Rowntree Foundation

  8. Growing your Time Bank • Employ a local person • Work with local leaders from day one • Take on running local events - (FS Cinema – MADD) • Embrace whole community – you will be judged by groups that join up with you • Recognise self sufficiency • Shop front for visibility • Resources for relationship building • Health and SSD need you • It takes time.

  9. The Global Suicide Economy • A product of human choices motivated by a love of money • Absentee ownership • Monopoly • Concentrations of power • No obligations to people or place • David C. Korten “Living Economies”

  10. Recent Farming Methods • Polluting our environment • Eliminating jobs • Dangerous working conditions

  11. THE CHOICE IS OURS • Everyone needs and cares about food • Growing it is our most intimate connection to the land • Small scale organic produce brings: • Improved health • Caring communities • Meaningful work • Clean air and water • Economic security

  12. “Teikei”– food with the farmers face on it • Community supported agriculture • Time Bank co-workers • ‘Time for Organic Food Free’ • “Look mummy there’s our farmer” • Pick your own

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