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In Control

In Control is a social enterprise that was set up in 2003 to transform the current social care system into a system of Self-Directed Support. It's mission is to help create a new welfare system in which everyone is in control of their lives as full citizens.

In Control NOW! (the regular publication by In Control) is out with a full page on time banks.

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Time Broker - The job of the future!

As our lives change radically over the next 20 years, so will the job market. That is why the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills has unveiled a list of 20 future professions in a paper entitled The Shape of Jobs to Come, as part of its Science: So What? So Everything campaign.

With the help of the team at Fast Future Research has looked at potential developments in science and technology over  the next 20 years and identified 20 jobs we could be doing as a result of these advances. I'm very pleased to be anouncing that the role of Time Broker makes it into this top 20

Click here to read more about the jobs of the future

Social Capital and Community Empowerment

New writings from the Chief Executive of Timebanking UK, Martin Simon

Social Capital (699Kb Word document)

Community Empowerment and Timebanking (692Kb Word document)

Précis of a speech by john mcknight about Caring (32Kb Word document)

Chief Executive's Quarterly Report

The October 2009 Chief Executive's Quarterly Report is now available to download from here.

New Disertation Available from The University of East Anglia Student, Katherine Devitt

"Defining a Framework for Sustainable Time Banking To Assist Developing and Established Time Banks in Strengthening the Core Economy" is the tite of Katy Devitt's disertation. A lot of the research has come from the Time Bank Sustainability Task and Finish Group set up in 2006, which time banks may remember taking part in.

Click here to see the disertation (1Mb PDF document)

Latest Timebanking Evaluation

We are very pleased to be able to bring you the first evaluation report by the University of Salford on Salford Time Bank.

Salford Time Bank are speaking with the University about continuing the evaluation, in order to get more evidence for the impact of Time Banking in Salford.

For more information about the evaluation, contact Chris Dabbs, Chief Executive of Unlimited Potential chris.dabbs@unlimitedpotential.org.uk

Click here for the evaluation (607Kb Word document)

Twenty first e-bulletin

To save trees, reduce costs and to embrace the world of technology, Time Banking UK has gone digital and is now outputting a short e-bulletin every month instead of a quarterly paper newsletter. You can sign up on any page by putting your email address into the yellow box that says "E-bulletin" and then click GO! To see the twenty first e-bulletin click here (135Kb PDF document)

To see past e-bulletins, please go to the document archive.

If you have anything of interest that you'd like to see in the next e-bulletin, please contact sarah@timebanks.co.uk

Wealth of Time

With the impact of the financial crisis yet to play out in full, government should invest now in timebanking to enable us to exchange the skills, knowledge and resources that we all have. This recession-proof means of exchange should be embedded at the heart of all public services, says a new report from think-tank nef (the new economics foundation)

This report marks the tenth anniversary of the timebanking movement in the UK and assesses the potential of timebanks for improving public services and strengthening communities.

Click here to read the full report (990Kb PDF document)

Impact of Time Banking in Scotland

Volunteer Development Scotland was commissioned by Time Banking UK to undertake research to investigate the impact of Time Banking in Scotland. Read the summary or the full report at the link below.

Full report on the impact of time banking in Scotland (92Kb PDF document)

Summary report on the impact of time banking in Scotland (370Kb PDF document)