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46 European Health Forum Gastein 2001 Further information There are a number of websites that can provide more information about the time banks idea, notably the Time Banks UK website (www .timebanks.co.uk), the London Time Bank website (www .londontimebank.org.uk) and the Fair Shares website in Gloucestershire (www.fairshares.org.uk). The American Time Dollar Institute also has a useful website (www.timedollar.org). If you would like more information about how to develop time banks in a health setting, you can contact: Sarah Burns (New Economics Foundation): tel: 020 7089 2859, email: sarah.burns @neweconomics.org Liz Hoare (Rushey Green Time Bank): tel: 07946 411177, email: liz.hoare @neweconomics.org Tirril Harris (Socio-Medical Research Centre at St Thomas’ Hospital): email: tirril.harris @kcl.ac.uk Gill Seyfang (University of East Anglia); email: g.seyfang @uea.ac.uk Jason Evans (Sandwell Health Authority): email: jason.evans @sandwell-he.wmeds.nhs.uk Karina Krogh (South London and Maudsley NHS Trust): email: karina.krogh@slam-tr.nhs.uk Appendix B Other UK research The national evaluation of community time banks in the UK, currently being conducted by Dr Gill Seyfang at the University of East Anglia, shows that they are a successful tool for engaging socially excluded groups in building their local community. 5 Whilst most schemes surveyed were still relatively young, participant involvement increased over time rather than burning out and moving on after a short period of activity. Significantly, most participants were active both as givers and receivers of time. The social groups which constitute time banks are precisely those who participate least in traditional volunteering – the poor, unemployed, those with disabilities, the elderly. 6 Compared to the demographic profile of traditional volunteers, time banks are attracting a different constituency of participants - notably a higher proportion of women, retired, disabled or sick people, jobless and low-income participants. For example, while only 16 per cent of traditional volunteers have an annual household income of under £10,000, the proportion of time banks participants in this category is 58 per cent - nearly four times as many. Also, while 40 per cent of traditional volunteers are not in 5 Seyfang, Gill (2001): Spending time building communities, Time Banks UK, London/Gloucester. 6 Davis-Smith, Justin (1998): The 1997 National Survey of Volunteering, National Centre for Volunteering, London. International Forum Gastein, Tauernplatz 1, A-5630 Bad Hofgastein Tel.: +43 (6432) 7110-70, Fax: Ext. 71, e-mail: info@ehfg.org, website: www.ehfg.org
Plenary Session I + II formal employment, the figure for community time banks members is 72 per cent, or nearly double. 7 This reveals that community time banks are successful in their objective of attracting members who are socially excluded, and would not normally get involved in volunteering. Indeed, the majority of survey respondents (82%) were confident that they were attracting people who had not volunteered before, and overall co-ordinators estimated that 51 per cent of their members would not otherwise have got involved in volunteering. Other findings included: Over half time dollar participants (51%) are people who would not otherwise have been interested in volunteering. Time dollars are succeeding in their aim of being reciprocal – participants in the 15 time banks studied had earned 15,776 hours in time credits and spent 13,838 (the total figure in September 2001 was over 32,500 hours earned). Over 90 per cent of respondents said time dollars were meeting some of the needs of participants – as well as building new friendships and trust among them. Dr Seyfang discovered a range of innovative arrangements – retired people teaching conversational English to Iranian women, others teaching the piano to teenagers in return for help in the garden. In Newcastle time credits can be spent getting into local sports centres; in Cheltenham getting into home matches played by Cheltenham Town. Appendix C Other US research A report by the Time Dollar Institute in Washington outlined some of the other ways that time banks were being used in a health context in the USA, some of which could be applied in the UK too. 8 The development of time banks in the USA is happening partly as a result of a general push to keep down the burgeoning costs of providing medical services, and partly in the face of a wider long term-care crisis in healthcare as the population ages. People over 65 are expected to make up over 21 per cent of the US population by the year 2030. By 2020, the number of Americans who will need some kind of help because of a chronic condition is expected to be around 23 million. Specific innovations include: Member Organised Resource Exchange in St Louis, which pays time credits to participants across the city for visiting older people, training in health promotion (asthma and childcare) and passing on the training to others. They can spend the credits on help for themselves or in a network of time bank ‘stores’ around the city. Volunteer Caregiving in Richmond, Virginia, where asthmatics are enrolled in a telephone time bank and befriend other asthmatics: the experiment cut the cost of treating those involved by 73 per cent - a total of $80,000 saved in the first year of the asthma program, rising to $137,500 in the second year. Time Bank in Denver, which pays time credits to participants for visiting older patients to make sure they are taking important medication. 7 Davis-Smith, Justin (1998): The 1997 National Survey of Volunteering, National Centre for Volunteering, London. 8 Time Dollar Institute (1999): Angels and Health: Time dollars and healthcare, Time Dollar Institute, Washington DC. International Forum Gastein, Tauernplatz 1, A-5630 Bad Hofgastein Tel.: +43 (6432) 7110-70, Fax: Ext. 71, e-mail: info@ehfg.org, website: www.ehfg.org 47
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