Richmond Timebank

Would you or a relative of yours appreciate help from a friend in your local timebank: perhaps with practical tasks like gardening, decorating, cleaning, tidying, filing, shopping or petcare; perhaps with coaching, tuition, constructive listening and moral support or entertainment?  

Could you, with your skills and experience, offer a corresponding length of time to other friends in your local timebank?

You might want to get to know your fellow timebankers before the practical work starts. You will meet them at a discussion of the development of the timebank itself, at a teleconference or in person, followed by discussion of the members’ immediate offers and needs.

Have you already been giving time to voluntary and charitable endeavours? The organisers might credit you for that time, and thus you can get initial credit for your timebank account.

People get involved in time banks for a range of reasons: to find an outlet for their skills, to obtain help, to build their social network, to develop the sense of community where they live, and to build credit that they may use for themselves or relatives if and when they are in failing health.

If these suggestions interest you, we'd like to hear from you, and welcome you as a founder member of Richmond Timebank - serving the whole Borough of Richmond and people nearby.

There are 130 timebanks in Britain affiliated to Timebanking UK. It's time that we in Richmond had one.

Have a look at the website – www.timebankinguk.org - for more detail of how timebanks operate. 

Our next in-person meeting to develop Richmond Timebank will be at the Old Ship, 3 King Street, Richmond, TW9 1ND at 6.30 on Mon 2nd September.  Look out for the table with the Timebank sign.

However meantime, do feel free to get in touch with me and join in the e-mail discussion and teleconferences we will be having as we refine the constitution and procedures and the roles we may play as timebrokers, IT and database developers, publicists, secretary and treasurer to keep Richmond Timebank running and developing, as well as exchanging our time informally.

Richmond resident, Alick Munro says: "When you get in touch, I’ll send you a more detailed account of progress so far, and what we envisage will be the next stags in development of Richmond Timebank. and an application form to join us.

"We timebankers can start exchanging time as soon as we like. I'd like some help at my allotment in North Twickenham, and in exchange I can offer any of the practical services listed above.

To get in touch email Alick Munro: [email protected].  or call 020 8892 9243 or text at 07944 933532.