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Time banking across Europe
David Boyle
11 June 2013
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What I’m going to say
• What a time bank is – and what it’s
not…
• A few findings.
• What it means for public services.
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Time banks
“Help a neighbour and then, when you need it, a neighbour – most likely a different one – will help you. The system is based on equality: one hour of help means one time dollar, whether the task is grocery shopping or making out a tax return…” Edgar Cahn, 1991
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Time banks in action
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Spending time credits
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Some features
• Embedded in services.
• Issuing credits (most not spent).
• Don’t have to add up.
• Co-ordinator.
• Hour for an hour.
• Credits paid for effort..
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Different kinds of time banks
• Co-production time banks (UK, Italy?)
• Municipal time banks (Spain etc)
• Insurance credits (Japan)
• Reciprocal volunteering (Slivers of time)
• Time-based currencies (Talente, LETS?)
• Reward points (Blue Dot, Young Scot)
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A sort of typology of currencies
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Social Economic
Local Time banks/service
credits, Member-to-
Member, Skill Swap, Care
Banks, Freecycle, etc
Local currencies, LETS,
Brixton pound, Ithaca hours,
Stamp Scrip, Community
Way, local barter, Community
Exchange, berkshares, Global
Barter Clubs
National
or
internatio
nal
Loyalty points, Nectar,
NuSpaapas, Young Scot,
Wigan and Windsor, Fureai
Kippu, Washington Youth
Court, Karrots
Backed currencies, kWh
money, Carbon points, Liberty
dollar, Terra, Wir, LLP money,
C3, Farm notes, Zopa,
goCarShare.
Time bank successes
• Social networks
• Employability
• Social inclusion, sense of belonging
• Inter-generational relations
• Psychological well-being, confidence etc
• Physical health.
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Small scale DIY in Catford
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Banco Palmas, Brazil
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Someone at the heart of it
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The questions
• How big before you have to divide?
• How do you co-ordinate sites?
• How do you pay for it?
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VNSNY time bank
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Washington Youth Court
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How do you
engage young
disaffected
young people as
advocates of
good behaviour?
The ancient question…
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“Co-production implies that citizens can play an
active role in producing public goods and services of
consequence to them.” Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom
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Co-production definition
“Co-production means delivering public
services in an equal and reciprocal
relationship between professionals, people
using services, their families and their
neighbours. Where activities are co-
produced in this way, both services and
neighbourhoods become far more effective
agents of change.” Boyle and Harris,
2009
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The key implications of co-production
1.Professionals also need help from their
clients, their clients’ families and their
neighbours.
2.Service users are a wasted asset.
3.We all depend on the ‘core economy’.
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“Somewhere in the process
something has gone wrong.
If you're constantly defining
people by what they lack or
need, it's not difficult for
people to lose sense of
what they have to give. And
it's not a humane way to
live.” Edgar Cahn
Cahn
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www.neweconomics.org
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Find out more about co-production
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