Stories

This is Gwen’s story of how she coped with having to socially isolate throughout the Covid-19 lock-down. Gwen lives in Ernesettle has been a member of Timebank South West for several years [...]

“I have had the privilege of working for the medical school at the University of Plymouth from September 2012. In addition to helping train tomorrow’s doctors, I have also had the wonderful [...]

Ernesettle residents successfully applied for a Mayflower 400 Community Sparks bid and were awarded £5,000. The award will enable residents to put on an open-air community performance at Budshead [...]

What a fantastic day we all had at the Timebank Celebration Event on Sunday 17th November. Lots of people from different neighbourhood Timebanks came together to socialise, share Timebanking [...]

Timebank South West recently worked with Plymouth Food Equality Project who ran workshops for Timebankers in Barne Barton and Stonehouse, aimed at recording individual and group food stories. The [...]

A Timebank member who lives in Efford asked us if we could find someone who knew how to replace a washer in one of her sinks at home. The washer had gone brittle and had cracked resulting in [...]

Our lovely Timebanker Phil came to the rescue of a lost baby seagull found by Gloucester Court residents. Phil regularly looks after injured birds until they are well enough to be returned back [...]

In June several of our Timebank Hubs got involved in baking cupcakes to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society. In total a whopping £283.90 was raised. Everyone had fun either showing each other [...]

Timebank South West Member Di is a keen embroider and she needed a laptop to store and alter files to be sent to her embroidery machine. Her husband had a laptop which he was not using and gave [...]

It was the week before Christmas and people had lots to do so it was amazing to see such a burst of creativity and community spirit happening at this time in Timebank groups. Adults and children [...]