Potter Street Time Bank
Residential centre with (ex) drug users and the recently homeless. Clients offered wide variety of activities rewarded in time, such as doing the majority of the cleaning and painting and decorating for the residential centre, attending advice sessions and visiting the needle bank. They are also rewarded in time for administrative help with the time bank itself and
other office work that needs doing. Training scheme called Flat Pack is rewarded in time - a intensive flat redecoration project where one person of the team gets the flat.
Participants pay for haircuts, meals, breakfast and other non rental living expenses, photography equipment and basic furniture in time credits. The time bank is funded through existing budget lines (cleaning, painting and decorating, resident support). It is an excellent example of coproduction - involving people directly in the services that affect their lives, as equal and valued participants.