This section of the site contains further information about Time Banks and other related subjects. This is sorted by media type - some of the content here may be stored on external sites.

Time Banking Publications

No More Throw-Away People: the co-production imperative by Dr Edgar Cahn,
2nd edition: Essential Books/Jon Carpenter; ISBN 1893520021 ~ £11.99 (p&p free)
Contact: Essential Books/Jon Carpenter: 01689 870437

Yes We Can: a practical guide to time banking by Time Banks UK - £20
Contact: Time Banks UK : info@timebanks.co.uk or 01452 541439

The Time of our Lives by Gill Seyfang & Karen Smith (64pp), £11.95
Download summary evaluation report here as pdf.

A Fair Share of Health Care by Martin Simon ; £6.95
Contact: Fair Shares 01452 541337

Funny Money: in search of alternative cash by David Boyle, HarperCollins/Flamingo;
ISBN 0002559471 ~ £6.99 - Contact: www.david-boyle.co.uk

On Becoming a Time Broker by Martin Simon, Fair Shares ~ £9.00
Contact: Fair Shares 01452 541337

Co-production Works by Sarah Burns and Karen Smith ~ £6.00
Contact: New Economics Foundation : 020 7820 6300

Time Banks: a radical manifesto for the UK by David Boyle - Download 79kb PDF file

Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures - Issue 2, Spring 1997 - PO Box 10818, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110, USA

Fair Shares in Gloucestershire - Martin Simon, August 1997 - Available online

Fair Shares and LETS - Martin Simon, March 1999 - Available online

Fair Shares and the Delivery of Social Services - Martin Simon, May 1999 - Available online

Time Money: The Ultimate Community Enterprise - Martin Simon, July 1999 - Available online

Scheme Offers Us Real Value of Time - Jonathan Porritt - Available online

A Helping Hand: Harnessing Self Help to Combat Social Exclusion - Colin Williams and Jan Windbank - Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1999

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Time Banking Books

Time Dollars - Cahn & Rowe; Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pennsylvania, 1992

Short Circuit - Richard Douthwaite; Green Books, 1996

The Third Way: the renewal of social democracy - Anthony Giddens; Polity

Funny Money: in search of alternative cash - David Boyle; HarperCollins - for more details see www.funny-money.co.uk

No More Throw-away People: the co-production imperative - Dr Edgar Cahn; John Carpenter, 2000

Further Reading

Co-producing the Future - David Boyle - Volunteering magazine, Feb 2005 (from a talk originally organised by the Centre for Reform at the National Liberal Club, Nov 04)

Time to Spend - Martin Simon - New Start Magazine 11th February 2000

A Fair Share of Health Care, Time Banks and Health - Martin Simon - 2003 - fairshares@blueyonder.co.uk

Time for Wealth, Wales Instittute for Community Currencies - wicc@newport.ac.uk

Towards an Asset Based NHS - David Boyle, Sarash Burns, M. Conisbee 2004 - www.neweconomics.org

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Time Banking Articles

There have been a number of press articles featuring Fair Shares, including the following:

Volunteering Magazine : February 2005 : David Boyle's 'Co-producing the Future'
ADSS Inform Magazine : October 2004 : Martin Simon's Banks of Time : Download PDF pt.1 - pt.2
New Statesman : 23 February 2004 : Display Article
Third Sector Magazine : 17 September 2003 : Display Article
Regeneration and Renewal : 16 May 2003 : Display Article
Regeneration and Renewal : September 2001 : Display Article
The Gloucestershire Echo - 23 October 2000 : Display Article
The Gloucestershire Echo - 26 April 2000 : Display Article
The Gloucestershire Echo - 26 May 1999 : Display Article
Gloucestershire Citizen - date unknown : Display Article
Gloucestershire Citizen ~ 17 May 1999 : Display Article
The Guardian - 16 December 1998 : Display Article
The Observer - 30 November 1997 : Display Article
The Washington Post - 19 January 1996 : Display Article

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Reports

‘Time Banks and Health’ by Martin Simon - a new report from Fair Shares. Download the abstract now (32kb PDF file). Contact the office for a copy of the full report.

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Time Banking Links

A copy of the Timekeeper software for Time Dollars/Fair Shares and a manual is available to anyone interested in starting a scheme in the UK from www.timebanks.co.uk
Time Banking in the US - www.timedollar.org
Dr Edgar Cahn - www.law.udc.edu/faculty/ecahn.html
New Economics Foundation - www.neweconomics.org
David Boyle's Funny Money - www.david-boyle.co.uk/funnymoney
International Journal of Community Currency Research - www.geog.le.ac.uk/ijccr
London time bank network - www.londontimebank.org.uk
LETSLink UK - www.letslink.org
Transaction Net - www.transaction.net/money
US Time Dollars Institute - www.timedollar.org
Islington Time Banks - www.islingtontimebanks.org
Wales Institute for Community Currencies - http://wicc.newport.ac.uk

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