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THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME. Time Banking Conference May 2006 Cardiff. Time Banking in the UK. Since 1998 there have 138 projects Community Development, Social Care, Health and Well-being, Environmental, Schools, Training, Housing, Volunteering, Offender Management, Early Years……

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THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

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  1. THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME Time Banking Conference May 2006 Cardiff

  2. Time Banking in the UK Since 1998 there have 138 projects Community Development, Social Care, Health and Well-being, Environmental, Schools, Training, Housing, Volunteering, Offender Management, Early Years…… ….and here in Wales in a Workmen’s Hall in the Valleys – “Friends in Time”.

  3. SOCIAL INNOVATIONS 7 world-changing social innovations • Open University • Fair Trade • Greenpeace • Amnesty International • Oxfam • Women’s Institute • Linux software

  4. Ingredients in common Heroic individual? A great idea Struggle against vested interests Contagious courage

  5. Time Banking is a Powerful Idea One for one Something for something A fair exchange – ‘give and take’ A chance to pay back – and pay it forward

  6. The Chaordic model

  7. The Common Good • Doing things together leads to better understanding - then to pooling efforts and then to ‘citizenship’ • Media and entertainment • By standing • Passive consumers • Virtual communities

  8. We have policy value Green paper on adult social care Powering up communities Volunteering Double Devolution

  9. A practical and adaptable tool • 138 experiments • Nine models • No ‘killer application’ • Strong knowledge base • Experienced time brokers • Membership organisation • New online ‘time keeper’

  10. Plan of action • Clear evidence base • Stick to our values • Communicate • Adapt and apply the system • Conversations into commitments • Develop regionally • Listen to the people who are doing it

  11. Shaping up • Consolidate relationship with projects • Model co-production • Build the network • Promote to the general public

  12. Up for Change and Unpredictability • Time banking has potential to join the list of social innovations that have changed the world • Why make things difficult when they can be done together?

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