Streetbank is a website that helps you share and borrow things from your neighbours. Sign up with your name and postcode (or address if you live outside of the UK), and see all the items within one mile radius of your home. It’s all completely free.
Posts Tagged ‘Community Networks’
StreetBank: be neighbourly in your neighbourhood
April 13th, 2011 
CN4B Admin Streetbank is a website that helps you share and borrow things from your neighbours. Of course, you may already share things with your neighbours, in which case, don’t let us stop you! Sign up with your name and postcode (or address if you live outside of the UK), add one item, skill or recommendation and see all the items within one mile radius of your home. It’s all completely free.
CN4B on YouTube
April 13th, 2011 CN4B Admin 
The is intended to share some of the useful content relating to our work and that of our members. The channel will feature many useful clips that we come across from a number of third parties covering subjects such as Local Democracy, Parks & Open Spaces, The Environment, Funding & Governance Issues, Social Enterprise and much more.
Time-banking
April 13th, 2011 CN4B Admin 
The legal practitioner and social innovator Edgar Cahn proposed that the currency of our ‘core economy’ was, quite simply, time – the precious, finite resource that we invest into our families, friends and communities – a concept which he dubbed the ‘Time Dollar’. He set up the Time Dollar Institute in the 1980s, which pioneered the use of time dollars in the areas of youth justice and legal aid, wherein recipients of legal advice paid in time dollars, accumulated by spending time on projects that were of benefit to the neighbourhoods surrounding the law school.
Posted in Opinion, Time Banking 
Tags: Birmingham Networks, Community Networks, Recruitment & Volunteering 
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March 16th, 2011 Tippa Naphtali 
Get involved in making the CN4B website even more informative. You can quickly submit a website description and URL link which will be publicly displayed in our library. Links can be submitted by members of the website or unregistered visitors. All we ask is that submissions must be relevant to the subject matter of the website and/or conform to our statement of values.
