THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

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THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

• Time Banking Conference
• May 2006
• Cardiff

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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 Workmens Hall in the
  Valleys Friends in Time.

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SOCIAL INNOVATIONS

• 7 world-changing social innovations
• Open University
• Fair Trade
• Greenpeace
• Amnesty International
• Oxfam
• Womens Institute
• Linux software

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Ingredients in common

• Heroic individual?
• A great idea
• Struggle against vested interests
• Contagious courage

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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

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The Chaordic model
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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

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We have policy value

• Green paper on adult social care
• Powering up communities
• Volunteering
• Double Devolution

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A practical and adaptable tool

• 138 experiments
• Nine models
• No killer application
• Strong knowledge base
• Experienced time brokers
• Membership organisation
• New online time keeper

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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

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Shaping up

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

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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?