RURAL TIME BANKING

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RURAL TIME BANKING

• (of the reciprocal kind)

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Whats coming around

• Social exclusion in rural and urban areas
• Facts about village life today
• Exclusive countryside
• Bridges to participation
• Growing your time bank
• The global suicide economy
• Food with the farmers face on it

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SOCIAL EXCLUSIONRURAL URBAN

• Scattered
• Affordability of housing
• Low pay and seasonality

• Concentrated
• Quality of housing
• Unemployment

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More rural realities

• Distance
• Isolation
• Poor access to jobs services
• Urban myth of the rural idyll
• Tradition of self sufficiency
• Bartering
• Self contained and mutually supportive

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Facts About Village Life Today

• 1.4 million of people have no academic
  qualifications
• 70 rural parishes no village shop
• 83 no GP in parish
• 49 no school
• 75 no daily bus service
• Low income folk need 10,000 new affordable homes
  per annum, or second home owners could move out?
  
• Average income 9,900pa (1999)
• Ref Countryside Agency

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Exclusive Countryside

• Lack of visibility harder to address social
  exclusion
• Dispersal among affluent means area based work
  insufficient
• New approaches to capacity building are required
  no top down agendas, partnerships, short term
  funding
• Transport is the major barrier reducing car
  ownership will only probably make things worse
• Progressive gentrification spatial exclusion
• Mark Shucksmith Joseph Rowntree Foundation

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Bridges to participation

• Self employment
• Transport solutions
• Accessible training
• Child care solutions
• Support networks and the informal economy
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation
  

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Growing your Time Bank

• Employ a local person
• Work with local leaders from day one
• Take on running local events - (FS Cinema MADD)
• Embrace whole community you will be judged by
  groups that join up with you
• Recognise self sufficiency
• Shop front for visibility
• Resources for relationship building
• Health and SSD need you
• It takes time.

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The Global Suicide Economy

• A product of human choices motivated by a love of
  money
• Absentee ownership
• Monopoly
• Concentrations of power
• No obligations to people or place
• David C. Korten Living Economies

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Recent Farming Methods

• Polluting our environment
• Eliminating jobs
• Dangerous working conditions

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THE CHOICE IS OURS

• Everyone needs and cares about food
• Growing it is our most intimate connection to the
  land
• Small scale organic produce brings
• Improved health
• Caring communities
• Meaningful work
• Clean air and water
• Economic security

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Teikei food with the farmers face on it

• Community supported agriculture
• Time Bank co-workers
• Time for Organic Food Free
• Look mummy theres our farmer
• Pick your own