Our partners Betknowmore support people with gambling addictions on their road to recovery. Timewise! Is a new programme to introduce timebanking to their operations and to help plan a programme of activities and time swapping as a new and exciting mechanism to improve confidence and self esteem.
Funded by the ESF and in partnership with Creative Lives, the Warwickshire and Coventry CVS and the Atherstone Time Bank we delivered a one year long project ‘Sound Ideas’ providing media training to unemployed people in Warwickshire. Participants gain skills in teamwork, project management, writing and editing, and podcast presenting, recording and editing, as well as taking part in timebanking activities.
This is a project to help extend our work in prisons by researching and writing a guide for other prisons about timebanking, the benefits and how working with Timebanking UK could help them implement a time bank for prisoners and for those leaving prison to help them with their rehabilitation.
In this project, funded by Sport England and Disability Rights UK, time bank members work with people with health conditions or disabilities to engage in physical activity together. The aim is for people to motivate and support each other through timebanking to become more active in a way and at a time that suits them.
Funded by the ESF and in partnership with Voluntary Arts and the Richmond Fellowship, It’s About Time is a year-long project delivering media training to unemployed people in Liverpool. Participants gain skills in team work, project management, writing and editing, and podcast presenting, recording and editing, as well as taking part in timebanking activities.
This Sport England-funded three-year national programme, a collaboration between Timebanking UK, Serco and Alzheimer’s Society, aims to improve the physical and mental health of people living with dementia. The More Volunteering programme pairs people living with dementia with buddies to support them to access Serco leisure centres. The buddies support their partners while they visit the pool or gym, and earn a timebanking hour per visit, which they can redeem for a trip to the leisure centre for themselves.
A two-year programme initially funded by the Greater London Fund for the Blind (now the Vision Foundation) to improve TBUK’s provision for people with sight loss in London. TBUK has improved access to our website, adapted our bespoke software, and created support materials in Braille. Additional funding from the Vision Foundation in 2020 for a series of events, training days and local support activities will enable London time banks to involve more people with sight loss and visual impairments.
Following a successful pilot, Dunhill Medical Foundation are working with TBUK to roll out the Timebanking for Health project, which aims to involve older people in their local time bank to reduce loneliness and isolation. The pilot was tested in 10 areas and is currently being expanded to benefit 600 older people across the UK.
Two years of investment from the Tudor Trust has enabled Timebanking UK to employ our operations lead, Nicki Baker, to expand our reach and capacity and grow the timebanking movement across the UK.
