Useful Links
Here are a few links that visitors to this website might find interesting. All links will open in a new window.
Time Banking UK is the national umbrella charity linking and supporting time banks across the country by providing inspiration, guidance and mutual help. Time banks are a new and exciting way for people to come together to help others and help themselves at the same time by sharing their skills
Collaborative Consumption describes the rapid explosion in swapping, sharing, bartering, trading and renting being reinvented through the latest technologies and peer-to-peer marketplaces in ways and on a scale never possible before
Don’t throw it away – give it away. You might not need your old sofa or wheelbarrow any more – but there might be someone just round the corner who does. Or if there’s something you’d like, someone nearby might have one that they might just throw your way if they don’t know what else to do with it.
Fresh Ties brings local people and organisations together to share knowledge, open up opportunities and improve wellbeing. They believe that there is enough for all of us to have a decent life and they say that ‘money can’t do what you can do’.
The Freeconomy Community’s aim is to help reconnect people in their local communities through the simple act of sharing. Not only is sharing our resources better for the environment, it saves you money and builds friendships with those people who live closest to you. Everything is shared for FREE and no money changes hands. Why? Just for the love of it!
If you’ve lived, you’ve learned… and you’ve probably got a story to tell. Mentoring online is the perfect way to share your hard-earned wisdom with those who can benefit from your experiences and knowledge, all in a supportive, safe and secure online environment where everyone can give and gain. You can search for a mentor, be a mentor, or simply browse the inspirational profiles and stories on the site. It’s safe and it’s free.
For more than thirty years they have worked in 90 countries around the world and have built 300,000 homes in partnership with people in need of safe, decent housing. The people build the homes themselves, with other volunteers, and they pay for them through a low cost, non-profit mortgage that recycles back into the community to sustain the local organisation and helps build more houses. A Habitat for Humanity home is a hand up – not a handout.
A powerful grassroots charity working with local people for local people. Their goal is social, economic and environmental justice. They comprise of over one hundred civil society organisations across the city.
Founded in 1980 the mission of the Schumacher Society is to promote the building of strong local economies that link people, land, and community. To accomplish this they develop model programmes, including local currencies, community land trusts, and micro-lending; host lectures and other educational events; publish papers; and maintain a library to engage scholars and inspire citizen-activists.
Communities are mobilising to improve their resilience in the face of the twin challenges of peak oil and climate change, by developing local food networks, local energy supplies, local transport – even local money.
Their aim is to grow a large membership base of 650,000 in 3 years that is actively engaged in progressive campaigns on issues like political corruption, economy, poverty and welfare, climate change, human rights and civil liberties and public services. In nature, 38 degrees is the tipping point and the critical angle at which avalanches are triggered.
Networks with a purpose. They are created around a specific person and a specific situation. For example a network could centre on a senior who has suffered a stroke, so that his caregivers and a larger circle of friends can be invited to support his desire for greater independence.
