Thursday, 22 September 2011

£10m to back Big Society Innovators

"This country has remarkable traditions of innovation in giving, volunteering and sharing, but now new technologies and techniques are opening up possibilities that would have been unimagineable even a decade ago.  We want to get the money to people doing the most imaginative work on the ground - but we also want to help them to be more ambitious about just how much impact their ideas can achieve." - Geoff Mulgan, CEO, NESTA


(from http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/news/%C2%A310m-back-big-society-innovators)

Thursday, 15 September 2011

Video Introduction to St Leonards Sharing Consortium

Please bear with the parts of this video which may seem tangential to the development of sharing. You may not be of the opinion that I am that the ability to work creatively with conflict & dispute is key to sharing. My perspective on humanity incorporates the perception that "Resource Wars R US", and that sharing starts with seeing needs....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvpKSm1xVYk

Kind regards
Paul
(Co-ordinator of the "St Leonards Sharing" Consortium : www.stleonardssharing.info)
(Co-ordinator of "Hastings & St Leonards Action for Happiness":
www.agoodweek.info)

0780 70 66 202 -phone calls often preferred to emails -for connection, clarity and making plans cooperatively.

(Does your local wellbeing group support your personal happiness, your inter-personal sharing, and the wellbeing of all? http://local-well-being-group.blogspot.com/)
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Life's short; compose your quarrels. (from The Dhammapada)

Monday, 12 September 2011

Application to join St Leonards Sharing Consortium, which is FREE (both for associates & full members)

Application to join St Leonards Sharing Consortium, which is FREE (both for associates & full members)

1) Are you expressing interest as an Individual or a group?

2) a) Your Name:
b) Your Group's name, if applicable, your position in the group & the geographical area that the group covers.

3) Tel number

4) email

5) Other Internet? Eg a website you'd like us to see to get more of a sense of your interests, twitterstream, willingness to receive/make a friendship request on Facebook etc?

All the following questions are OPTIONAL; ie you don't need to answer any of them to be an associate of SLS; and if you do then there's more opportunity to receive the benefits of full membership.

B1) Please rank these objectives in terms of priority to you and cross out any that seem irrelevant to your interests:
Increase interaction between people who do not ordinarily meet, such that greater understanding and trust is built.
Share resources within the community, not least of which is the encouragement of privately owned resources to be increasingly made available to others in the community by promoting initiatives such as streetbank etc and making resources offered on-line more accessible to those who do not use the internet.
Encourage the recognition, development and offering of skills in the community through the process of timebank brokerage, or similar initiatives.
Promote wellbeing, initially with reference to the "5 ways of wellbeing" as published by the New Economics Foundation and combining these with learning from the St Leonards Community in the development of local wellbeing groups
Share understanding of ways to work constructively with difference and empower people in handling their own differences with others such that 'systemic win' is in mind, opening up possibilities not just for 'win-win' between individuals but also for a stronger community for having worked through and learned from the differences between individuals.
Encourage the development of local community-based caring structures, enabling individuals to have more choice in how their care needs are met.
Generate creativity in relation to how St Leonards becomes a more "caring and sharing place".

B2) Is there an additional objective or two that you'd like to recommend be adopted by the consortium?

B3) Please estimate how many emails you'd be comfortable with receiving in the next 6 months about how the work is going on fulfilling these shared objectives?

B4) How often would you like a face to face contact with the consortium in the next 6 months and/or a phone call?

B5) Preference Phone or face to face?

B6) Home Address

B7) The neighbouring 4 streets (This is for forming local well-being groups)

B8) Work Address

B9) The neighbouring 4 streets to your work address (This is for forming local well-being groups around your work place location)

B10) what support would you like from the consortium?

B11) what contribution do you forsee making to the consortium?

B12) Approximately, how many hours a month social activism do you do - so that we can consider giving you time bank credits for this work?

(If more than 0, please describe that work)

B13) Are you able to provide any hours (credited of course) to the work of the consortium? If so, how many?

B14) Are you a member of www.streetbank.com or www.freelender.org ?

B15) What is your impression of St Leonards Sharing Consortium so far?

B16) How soon will you be likely to visit www.stleonardssharing.info ?

B17) Anything else you'd like to say?

Sunday, 11 September 2011

Why would you buy something if your neighbour would lend it to you whenever you wanted to use it?

Why not be that neighbour for someone else nearby, by letting them all know what you are willing to stretch yourself to lend?
You might do this to build community, to meet people nearby with similar interests, to increase the possibility of human behaviour becoming sustainable on a planet of finite resources. Or to save money. Either way, it makes sense; as long as we take responsibility for how we're doing it. Some people take deposit money. Always agree the replacement value & intended return date. And for some, the most efficient way to get social capital (ie connections of value) out of the stuff they own, is on-line. If you want to see the online version, try our website or our friend's:
http://freelender.org
www.streetbank.com
If you don't like using the web and want to ring a number to find out if anyone has x,y,z, then we hope you'll offer time to help this develop, or ring Paul on 0780 70 66 203 for the latest news and your chance to offer tools, leisure equipment or whatever. Time you give to this initiative can be "time-banked" so that you can claim it back from a network of people offering care, courses, or other leisure/maintenance activities.
Lending plus borrowing plus time-banking extends neighbourliness. It's worth it because the risk of not sharing more in St Leonards is greater!
I'd love to hear where you are now in relation to these ideas? An "early adopter"? Or part of the early majority? Or you'll wait until everyone else does it first?

Dear friend,
How are you? Is there anything that I can do to make things (even) better for you?

Kind regards
Paul
(Co-ordinator of the "St Leonards Sharing" Consortium : www.stleonardssharing.info)
(Co-ordinator of "Hastings & St Leonards Action for Happiness":
www.agoodweek.info)

0780 70 66 202 -phone calls often preferred to emails -for connection, clarity and making plans cooperatively.

(Does your local wellbeing group support your personal happiness, your inter-personal sharing, and the wellbeing of all? http://local-well-being-group.blogspot.com/)
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Life's short; compose your quarrels. (from The Dhammapada)

Wednesday, 7 September 2011

The simplest effective borrowing technology used to date

Responsible borrowing in action; or it will be if
1) I now put it on a shelf of borrowed items
2) work through that shelf systematically
3) return things on time in similar or good enough condition.
4) am open to complications arising and being handled responsibly too.