More Services Than You Can Shake a Stick at

As the Sneinton Time Bank grows and more and more members join, the number and variety of services offered increases. There are already more than seventy services offered. We have listed all services offered under appropriate headings. Please take a look at all services offered. You may be surprised and find a service you didn’t realise was offered at Sneinton Time Bank.

Just let us know if you see any service/skill you are interested in and we will try to organise something for you.

Animals and pets
dog training; dog walking; pet care.

Business Services
Admin; book keeping; budgeting; business planning; coaching for businesses, individuals and groups; personal profiling for team building; publicity work; web marketing.

Driving
driving a car; driving a minibus; giving lifts.

Equipment
tables and chairs; lending tools (including gardening tools).

Food and Drink
catering; cooking; running a bar.

Groups
developing a constitution; help with social events.

Health and wellbeing skills
aromatherapy massage for women; body talk sessions; fitness training; walking companion; yoga sessions.

Home
building work; help with clear-ups; house-sitting; moving/lifting; plant watering; simple decorating; simple home repairs; washing/ironing; errands.

Joining Sneinton Time Bank
Recommending a member.

Office
packing leaflets; printing; typing/word processing.

Outside
car washing; fishing; gardening; leafleting; outdoor skills; wildlife gardening.

People
after-school care; baby sitting; companionship; escort to appointments; filling in forms; meeting child from school; shopping; storytelling; visiting housebound people; youth work.

Skills
card making; computer skills; craftwork; design work; DJing; drawing; dressmaking; embroidery; graphic design; knitting; making decorations; outdoor environmental arts; painting; pottery; designing posters; sewing; translation.

Space
music studio time; room hire; space to promote a service.

Teaching
saxophone lessons; clarinet lessons; adult literacy; environmental information; teaching the guitar; reading lessons; foreign language lessons; surfing the net; theramin lessons; teaching English as a foreign language.

Training
volunteer co-ordination.

Project 150

Sneinton Time Bank currently has just under 50 members. Project 150 is a recruitment drive which aims to increase membership by 100 over the next 12 months. The more members Sneinton Time Bank has, the wider the range of skills that will be offered. Having more members will enable more exchanges to take place as it should be easier to find members capable of helping with certain tasks.

If you are already a Sneinton Time Bank member you can earn yourself time credits by recommending freinds and acquaintances to join. Every time a new member joins as a direct result of your recommendation, we will award you 5 time credits.

More members will create more activity and help the Time Bank thrive.

Sneinton Festival 2009

This year’s Sneinton Festival (27thJune – 5th July) was a good one again, with good weather, and lots of fun at a new location for Carnival Day – the Greenway Centre Park, Trent Lane.

With less money than previous years, the fact that 6 of the organising committee are time bank members helped to get the thing off the ground.

Sneinton Library Gardening

Our friends at Sprout have teamed up with Sneinton Library to organise an afternoon of work on the Library garden on Friday 17th July from 2-4.  Sprout will be bringing along some young volunteers aged 16-25 and will hopefully be joined by some Sneinton Time Bank volunteers too.

Sneinton Library is a member of the Sneinton Time Bank and is always looking for time bank members to get involved in activities taking place at the Library.  If you’re interested please get in touch with Rachel or Dave on 0115 9584862 or e-mail: sneintontimebank@gmail.com

Tomato Plants for the TRACS Yard!

One of our new Time Bank members who is an allotment holder and avid gardener has kindly donated us some tomato plants for the TRACS back yard.  She earnt 1 time credit through spending an hour replanting the tomato plants into ceramic pots for us.  They seem to be doing well with all of the Sunshine we’ve had recently.  We look forward to feasting on the tomatoes later in the Summer!

Inter-Time Bank Exchanges!

One of the great things about Time Banking is it isn’t a new idea, nor is it a concept limited to the Sneinton area.  There are other Time Banks in Nottingham including the Skills Exchange (based at the Partnership Council) in Hyson Green, one based in the West Bridgford area of the City and there is an emerging Time Bank set to cover the Sherwood Rise area.  Not being the only Time Bank in Nottingham has many benefits – it means that we can support each other with systems, advice and processes for the most effective coordination and running of the Time Bank and it means we can set up inter-time bank exchanges.

Inter-Time Bank Exchanges are where members from one time bank can recive help from a member of another time bank and the time credits will be earnt or deducted from their respective accounts.  This means that if a member of the Sneinton Time Bank is looking for a service that isn’t currently being offered through the Sneinton Time Bank, then we can see whether it is being offered at one of the other Time Banks in Nottingham.

We have already had our first couple of Inter-Time Bank exchnages taking place.  One of the Skills Exchange members helped us talking to people about Time Banking at our Launch event and recently an ex-tailor who is a member of the skills exchange came over to Cafe Sneinton to chat to one of our Time Bank members who is looking to become a Tailor over some lunch.  I think the two got on quite well and are planning to meet up again to have a look at one of the members sewing machines.

Sneinton Time Bank Member Lenny helps at TRACS

A member who has been so active he deserves his own post! One of our Time Bank members, Leonnard, has really got involved in helping us tidy up TRACS Neighbourhood Centre as well as helping out with Sneinton events and other members via the Time Bank earning himself lots of Time Credits and meeting new people as a result.

Leonnard has helped us re-pot some plants, saw desks down to a more convenient size, clear up the back yard, put up planters on the outside wall, replace the broken panes of glass and lots more!  Most recently he has set to work on Painting the outside of TRACS Neighbourhood Centre so keep your eyes peeled for a fresh look at the Centre soon!

Leonnard has also helped Sneinton Festival build stocks and ‘football’ game boards for the Sneinton Festival Fundraiser as well as helping out on the Fundraising Day himself and helping at Cafe Sneinton on Saturdays.  He’s also helped another Time Bank member with digging his allotment.

Leonnard says that there isn’t a lot of help he needs in return at present but he is on the lookout for a low priced/free washing machine.  If anyone happens to know of one of these localy then please get in touch!

Aromotherapy Massage Available Through the Time Bank!

This Saturday, Cafe Sneinton at the Sneinton Hermitage Community Centre is host to one of our Sneinton Time Bank members offering FREE 20 minute aromotherapy massage sessions in one of the side rooms in exchange for Time Credits!

Gillian will be around from 12-2pm andthere will be a sign-up sheet for people to sign up for one of the 20 minute massages (women only).  There will also be nutritious meals available for £2 cooked by local cooks and time bank members and a range of snacks and drinks available as well as the usual book swap and craft activities for kids.

Sneinton Time Bank & Cafe Sneinton!

Last Saturday was a very busy day at the Sneinton Hermitage Community Centre with lots of people coming down to enjoy the low-cost, healthy food and meet other people.

The Menu on Saturday was:

Spinach Tortilla with green salad and garlic bread
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Roasted Tomato Pasta and garlic bread
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Or a selection of sandwiches
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Naseem’s Rice Pudding
Ida’s Cakes

All mains are £2, sandwiches £1.50, Tea and Coffee 30p, Chai Cooked
Tea 50p, Plus assorted confectionery at various prices.

* Cafe Sneinton is also host to a Salsa Class with Cleon from 1-2pm.
* There is a swap shop for books.
* Live music with Nick Gill and others – come along and Jam from 2pm.
* Sneinton Festival are also holding a meeting at 2pm to get some
ideas down on paper.
* Opportunity to sign up for you place at our upcoming bring and buy sale.

Gillian Parrish was also offering FREE 10-20min
aromatherapy massages from 1-3pm in a side room as part of the
Sneinton Time Bank.

Sneinton Time Bank Makes the News Again!

Things have been really busy in the Sneinton Time Bank office over the past couple of weeks with application forms now flying in!  We were very pleased to see the Sneinton Time Bank get a mention in the credit crunch supplement of the Evening Post too.  In the current economic climate, there really is no better time to join a time bank project – it’s a way of getting the help that you need without having to part with cash to pay for the services!  What’s more, there is a great social side to the project too – the scheme provides a way of meeting other people in your local neighbourhood and can help people get involved in community activity.  We’ll be organising events and  get-togethers throughout the year for members to socialise and get to know each other.

We have a couple of events we’re looking to organise in the near future so that Sneinton time bank members can meet other members and also earn time credits through taking part.  The first of these is a brightening up of the TRACS Neighbourhood Centre offices.  We’re looking to give the building a facelift in the form of a lick of paint and planting some hanging baskets to get the place looking fresh for the Spring and Summer months ahead.

We’re also thinking of organising a recipe exchange evening where we will be inviting people to cook and/or supply the recipes of some of their favourite dishes to share with other members!

If either of these events appeal to you, or you now somebody who might be interested in taking part, then please get in touch!

Also, ‘Cafe Sneinton’ is taking place most Saturday’s at the Sneinton Hermitage Centre just across the road… pop along to enjoy the good, cheap, healthy food in a friendly and relaxing setting!