Rushey Green Time Bank

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Rushey Green Time Bank

• A Time Bank Based in a General Practice in the UK

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Our vision is to achieve a cohesive community in
the Rushey Green area, where neighbours know
neighbours and can rely on each other for help
and support. Where people of different ages,
cultures, backgrounds and abilities interact with
each other on an equal footing and with mutual
respect and understanding.
VISION
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MISSION

• Our mission is to empower the residents of
• Catford (including but not exclusively the
• patients of Rushey Green Group Practice) to
• improve their own health and sense of well-
• being, and thus improve the health of the
• Catford community as a whole.

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Social relations and health

• As people start to help each other and get
• to know their neighbours, they rebuild a
• sense of trust and start to feel that they are
  part
• of the community - they rebuild community
• wealth and health. They are enriched.
• They are co-producing their improvement in
• wellbeing and in social functioning despite
  health
• problems.

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Activities

• Two members Wayne and Stephen
• They have attended social events accompanied by
  their support workers - seaside trip, AGM, drop
  ins, pub evening outing
• Wayne has come to the walking group
• Dancing classes
• Massage and chair based exercises
• Games
• Outing in Kent with one or two members - invest
  in members

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What has been challenging?

• Support workers to be more involved and
  understand the value of Time Banking integrate
  Time Banking activities with what Wayne and
  Stephen like to do and within their schedules
• Communication between the support workers in
  order to support Wayne and Stephen to be more
  consistently involved
• Providing a variety of activities/meaningful
  reciprocal exchanges
• Competing with other activities at day centres
• Getting other members to take the initiative to
  come alongside Wayne and Stephen this will
  gradually happen as Wayne and Stephen become more
  recognized, attend activities, as relationships
  grow, and as communication is improved.

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Learning points

• Communication with support workers and with
  Wayne and Stephen
• Have regular meetings with the support workers
• Closing the walking group without providing an
  alternative event
• Scope and expectations, timeline for success -
  what is success?
• No getting stressed about exchanges and instead
  focus on the benefits of social activities

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• The greatest good
• you can do for another
• is not just share your riches,
• but reveal to them their own.
• Benjamin Disraeli

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How do we measure satisfaction/ get feedback from
members who have a learning disability and have a
communication barrier?
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Contact details

• Rushey Green TimeBank
• C/O The Rushey Green Group Practice
• The Primary Care Centre
• Hawstead Road
• London SE6 4JH
• Tel [phone]
• Email rusheygreen_at_gmail.com
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• Registered Charity No 1101616. Company limited by
  guarantee, registered in
• England and Wales. Company registration number
  4681564