
Introducing Streetbank Live!
This time last year, our friends Taz and Anna from the Nehemiah Foundation felt that many communities around the country, including their own, seemed to have lost their community spirit. They felt it was time to break down those barriers and create a bright, caring and sharing community for the benefit of all.
With their sights fixed on this dream, they partnered with us here at Streetbank to promote neighbourhood sharing in Burnley and Leicester. Recognising our collective potential, the Tudor Trust have granted us some joint funding to help achieve this goal.
The introduction of Streetbank in Burnley and Leicester has proven difficult at times. Lack of trust and the desire to keep yourself to yourself in some areas has made it not so easy to get lots of people signing up and sharing on Streetbank.
In light of these difficulties, some research and brainstorming was called for. Taz and Anna got talking to as many people as they could, including the women’s group in Burnley – to get their thoughts on what might work. It turned out the group were up for sharing things they no longer needed - and they liked the idea of sharing knowledge and skills with each other – like basic computer skills, sewing, recipe ideas etc… in fact they do a bit of that already.
The lightbulb moment came when they realised that they needed to do something totally offline to begin with, something not on their doorsteps but on neutral ground – something that introduces the ideas of Streetbank, but with just people and no website involved.
And so ‘Streetbank Live!’ was born.
Simple sharing events will be organised in Burnley and Leicester in the coming months. They will allow locals to meet at a local venue, offer things they don’t want anymore, and pick up something they do fancy in exchange. The skills of one or two locals will also be shared at the event – all over a nice cup of tea.
Do you like the sound of Streetbank Live!? Would something similar work near you? Comments below please!
Comments
on April 18 2015 Claude Ferron said:
This is an extremely good idea. I support it. It would be nice however to build profiles to the participant already. This way when they decide to connect, everything is there. Event organiser could have an iPad app or something similar to quickly build and import profile into street bank. If you want to futher discuss, I’am all ears :)
on March 24 2015 Camilla Westnes said:
Yes, lovely idea, interested in making it happen! :)
on March 24 2015 Camilla Westnes said:
Yes, lovely idea, interested in making it happen! :)
on March 3 2015 Sam Nic, Tess, Alice & Rachel said:
Great Clare! Do send me an email if you’d like to have a chat about running a local event – happy to help: kate@streetbank.com Thanks!
on February 22 2015 Clare Seek said:
Great idea, and am definitely interested in doing something similar in our area
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