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Community Development Journal 39:62-71 (2004)
© 2004 Community Development Journal and Oxford University Press

Time banks: rewarding community self-help in the inner city?

Gill Seyfang

Dr Gill Seyfang is a Senior Research Associate in Sustainable Consumption in the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. This research was carried out while Gill was working within the Overseas Development Group, also at UEA

Address for correspondence: g.seyfang{at}uea.ac.uk

Time banks are new community-based initiatives in the UK that use time as a unit of local currency. Participants give and receive help in exchange for time credits. Reciprocal volunteering, community participation and active citizenship are encouraged, particularly for the socially excluded who normally volunteer least. The findings of case study research with an inner city time bank from Glasgow in Scotland are presented, to assess their role and potential as tools for promoting community development and overcoming social exclusion. The paper concludes with a summary of important lessons learned for practitioners, and policy recommendations to help them to achieve their objectives.


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