Mentions

A small collection of fascinating blogs and articles by collegues who have given Martin Simon a mention recently.

 

Banking time for schools - 23 June 2011  - Timebanking is a scheme which links local people to share their time and skills for the benefit of all. SecEd columnist Karen Sullivan reports on the benefits the programme can and is bringing to school communities

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Public services as a platform for giving  - Philip Colligan, executive director of the public service innovation lab at NESTA has written an excellent essay on public services as a platform for giving. In this essay, he examines the future of funding and how we should be looking at how public services can harness the untapped capabilities and assets that exist in all communities. The move away from the traditional cash economy to other forms of exchange is also covered.

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'Your Money or Your Life: Time for Both'

Living with rats - exploring better ways to live and how to make better places to live in blog by Julian Dobson

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