Avalon Fair Shares |
| Region: |
South West |
| Time
Broker/Contact Name: |
Photo of Time Broker
Alison Hall, Lindsey Paton, or Jon Cousins |
| Address: |
Richard Whiting House
9 Silver Street
Glastonbury
Somerset
BA6 9BS
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| Tel: |
0845 45 65 427 |
| Email: |
[email protected] |
| Website: |
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| Specialisms: |
Environment
Rural
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| Area/Population
Served: |
40,000 population |
| Funding Sources: |
The Big Lottery Fund, and Help The Aged
other funders have been: Somerset County Council, Somerset Global Grants, Mendip District Council, BBC TimeBank, Somerset Learning And Skills Council, SRB6 |
| Total Hours Given (credited): |
11539 |
| Total Hours Received (debited): |
11539 |
| Total Hours Traded (given+rec'd): |
23078 |
| No. Individual Participants: |
175 |
| No. Organisational Participants: |
25 |
| Total Participants (indiv+orgs): |
200 |
| No. Organisational Links: |
33 |
| Services Traded (top 3): |
Helping at Events, Gardening, Removals |
| Time Bank Strengths
(top 2): |
Environmental Time Bank / Will research Timebanks, goods & LETS |
| Time Bank Challenges
(top 2): |
Finding more Gardeners, DIYers, and even more Gardeners |
| Other Comments: |
We were the first Time Bank in Somerset (2004).
OUR TIME BANK JOKE - entitled: THE LATENT CAKE - Question: "When is a vase not a vase?"
Answer: "When it's always been my vase!"
Coproduced with participant Ella Le Gris
March 2006 |
| Last
Updated: |
11/9/06 |
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| Case Study |
We coordinate the Community Time Bank scheme in Glastonbury and the surrounding Mendip area, and have just celebrated the second year of our Time Bank project. Recently we signed up our 100th member - local resident, Su Newcomb.
We marked the occasion by presenting Su with a specially made �Fair Shares� clock. The award was donated by the Fair Shares Charity, whose patron is environmentalist Jonathon Porritt.
This was a double celebration for us, as participants of the scheme have now exchanged over 18,000 hours of help, support and �lending a hand� since Avalon Fair Shares was launched
in 2004 by Richard Rockefeller.
We have also developed links with many organisations in the town, including Glastonbury Festival who helped us by donating the printing our participant handbooks. |
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