Streetbank - Sharing in Your Community

Hi everyone

I wanted to let you know about www.streetbank.com, a website that gives neighbours an opportunity to lend, give away or offer time and skills to anyone living within a mile of their home. The aims are to bring people together to reduce consumption, foster generosity and sharing amongst neighbours, and promote collaboration on everything and anything from food growing to bike fixing to ladder sharing. We find a lot of parents like to use it too to pass on no-longer-wanted baby items, children's clothes and so forth.

I've been part of a couple of Transition groups as well as putting in some groundwork to help set up Chiswick Transition. I think Transition is a super network and a brilliant way to bring communities together. At the first public Chiswick Transition meeting, Sam - one of the co-founders of www.streetbank.com - came along to meet us and talk about his project. I thought it was such a super initiative that I started helping spread the word about Streetbank in my spare time and as a result I'm now working at SB a couple of days a week to help support communities in the sorts of activities we want to promote, such as skill-sharing and reducing consumption.

Anyway, do check out www.streetbank.com - I love the idea that Transition groups across the UK (and world) will be able to make use of Streetbank and tap into the platform we're providing. We've just won a NESTA Innovation in Giving award, which is going to make it possible for us to develop the site even further over the next few months.

If you like facebook and twitter, we're on there too:

https://www.facebook.com/streetbank

@street_bank

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and hopefully working with lots of Transitioners to help achieve more sustainable communities!

Tess