At Timebanking UK, we value collaboration highly – after all, sharing knowledge and skills is what we’re all about. And we’re proud to have worked together with some of the key names in the UK’s charity, public and private sectors. Click on the titles to read more about each project.
If you’d like to know more or are interested in working with Timebanking UK on a project, please get in touch.
Projects Timeline
2022-2025: Investing in our growth
The Tudor Trust will be funding Timebanking UK for 3 years to help undergo a transformation piece and deliver new and exciting services for the time bank membership and to support the growth of the organisation.
2022: Improving mental health in Somerset
We have secured funding to roll out the first timebanking programme in North Somerset in partnership with GP’s and community groups. To improve mental health is the top priority.
2022: Tee times
In this third project, we are focusing on people with visual impairments and their love of golf. Our partners are Blind Golf England and we will be using timebanking to support their members, introduce more people to Blind Golf and help their members to realise their value in being able to help others.
2022: Learning new skills in Liverpool
A one year programme to involve young people with disabilities across Liverpool to get involved in activities which they enjoy and want to learn; art, music, cooking, sports, etcetera. For every hour they are involved they earn a timebanking hour which they can swap with our corporate partners or learning something new from another young person.
2022: Closing the digital divide
A one year programme to help alleviate loneliness and isolation in older people who have difficulties using technology. Group telephone events are set up where each person gets a phone call to link them up with others to chat about issues of mutual interest. There is a facilitator and speaker on each and the events are open to time banks and their members across the UK.
2022: Moving more…
In this second project, funded by Sport England and Disability Rights UK, time bank members work with people with health conditions or disabilities to ‘simply move more’. 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 – in 4 new locations.
2022: Timebanking helping gamblers on the road to recovery
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.
2021: ‘Sound Ideas’ for people in Warwickshire
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.
2021: Allen Lane Foundation
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.
2021: Timebanking Together
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.
2020: Media training to help people into employment
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.
2020-23: Dementia buddies
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.
2019-2021: Opening up access to visually impaired people
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.
2019-2021: Reducing loneliness and isolation
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.
2018-2020: Investing in our staff
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.