Tendring Time Bank
Welcome to Tendring Time Bank
Registered Charity Number 1191431
At our Centre at 30a St. Osyth Road, Clacton-on-Sea, we run various activities, all chosen by the members, including: Craft Days, Family Research, Wealth and benefit checks, and a Drop-in afternoon to play board games or cards. The chosen board game, Rummikub, has tiles consisting of colours and numbers, so dyslexia, autism and brain damage does not exclude any member from participating.
Because our premises are small and welcoming, we have had many referrals from Mind, for people with nervous dispositions or social anxiety.
Donations of collections of items such as foreign stamps that need sorting into countries and sets, so duplicates can be offered for sale in smaller packets, as with packets of buttons that have been sorted, and many books, DVDs, CDs, Vinyls, Bric-a-Brac and jigsaw puzzles.
Help is always needed at the Centre to sort donated items, dress the windows to reflect calendar events, such as Christmas, Easter, Mothers' Day, the Saints Days, Halloween, and the Anniversary of our Open Day around the 23 April, which is also St. George's Day.
Regular volunteers are needed to cover specific days of the week, so we can increase our opening hours, and those with some admin skills can learn to enter their exchanges to record time credits earned, spent or donated, as well as entering group exchanges and running activity reports, and keeping a check on current membership levels.
Members are welcome to pop in for a chat and a cuppa whenever they are feeling the need for some company, or need some help or information.
Skills shared are wide and varied, and cover things such as Knitting, Crochet, Cross Stitch, Card Making, Computer Skills, Maths, Money Management, Dog Walking, Companionship, Family Research, Gardening and Basic D.I.Y., Form Filling. WiFi Access, Help with Benefit Queries, Blue Badge renewal, PIP claims, CV Writing, Facility for Job Searches and help with Applications.
The DWP recommend jobseekers to join Time Banks in The Daily Jobseeker, as there are no fixed hours and members and volunteers are always available to attend interviews and reviews.
The main object of Time Banking is to help people to help each other, by exchanging skills and information, for Time Credits rather than money. This can be in the Time Bank Centre, at individual members' premises or in groups, such as our walking group, the Clacton Walking and Social group.
DBS Certificates may be required to ensure the Safeguarding of all members that may be subjected to one to one contact with another member.
Enter your own skills and needs in the Offers and Requests section on the Members Page.
We are currently having our Website overhauled, and would like to increase our presence on Social Media applications, to promote our Timebank and advertise the work we are doing and the unique items we have for sale.
Our Facebook pages are our main source of updating current events for us and other like-minded organisations locally.
Much of our funding comes through Easyfundraising, where thousands of companies and organisations give donations of various fixed amounts or as a percentages of sales, to nominated causes or charities. If all our members downloaded the Easyfundraising app and used it when booking holidays, using comparison sites to save on insurance, or for general online purchases, we could virtually be self-funding. Follow the link: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/timebank
Then download the Donation Reminder, which asks if you want to activate the donation if you are purchasing from a site that gives donations through Easyfundraising.
We are also a registered cause on the Essex Lottery, where there is the potential to win £20,000 jackpot and lots of monthly super prizes. Specify Tendring Time Bank as your chosen cause, and we receive a donation relating to the number of tickets sold each month.
Many thanks to all who support us and help to keep the Tendring Time Bank Centre running.
