A GREAT WAY TO CONNECT

Selwyn Timebank is much more than offering and requiring help or resources. It is an opportunity to connect with others and make new friends. It is a place to meet new people and discover similarities and differences. The group also visit a variety of places that are of interest to Timebank members.

Timebanks trade in time credits rather than money. Timebank members can request help for a specific job and then pay for that help with time credits.

Timebanks do not need direct trades to work because time credits earned are put in an account to be spent when needed. Working bees to get big jobs done are a great way of harnessing the energy of a Timebank and provides an opportunity for people to meet.

Organisations and schools can also be Timebank members and can pay their volunteers with credits.

Timebanks recognise that all members of a community have skills to contribute, and that the overall community is strengthened when neighbours help one another.

In fast-growing communities, such as many of the towns in the Selwyn area, newcomers may not easily meet other residents. For established residents traditional networks may break down as grown up children settle elsewhere and neighbours commute into town to work. The Selwyn Timebank provides a new way of forming networks and meeting other people in the community.

Selwyn District covers a large area and has many unique communities within it. While this Timebank aims to serve the whole of the Selwyn District they acknowledge that most people would rather trade within their own community. As a Selwyn Timebank member you can search within your own neighbourhood (for example, Rolleston, Darfield etc) or search across the whole district.

For more information see advertisement in this issue or email Fiona at selwyntimebank@gmail.com. You can also find them on Facebook (they are on a number of community pages) and Neighbourly.

ROLLESTON MEN’S SHED

It has been busy as usual at the Rolleston Men’s Shed. Chairs and more chairs have needed repair work. Broken bits or simply glued joints that needed regluing. A lounge chair had its leg repaired also. Two garden benches were stripped down, and the metal end had the rust removed and have been painted. The wooden slats were stripped and cleaned before varnishing. Many garden chairs have been brought in, some with snapped timber and the rest needing the metalwork cleaned up and fixed. A donated domino set had some pieces missing. They have been replaced and a box was made before donating it to Rolleston School.

A donated vice was stripped down and refurbished, and an exhaust extension has been made for a Shed member's motorhome.

Feel free to drop by for a yarn!

The Shed, situated at 54 Dynes Road, Rolleston is open Saturday, Monday and Wednesday mornings. Visit the website for further information: rolleston.wordpress.com

Adominoesset.

Sandy (Alex) Ferguson, Rolleston Men's Shed.