What is it?

Time Together Gorseinon

Time Together aims to bring citizens, professionals, agencies and community groups together to maximise the continuing wellbeing of people living in the Gorseinon area.

Who is involved?

City & County of Swansea Social Services has started this process off in partnership with Gorseinon Development Trust, Time Banking Wales, Community Lives Consortium, and Swansea Council for Voluntary Service.

It is one of the 4 experiments in Citizen Directed Support that Swansea are conducting  to transform social services for adults.

What will it do?

It will have 2 elements

A Wellbeing Network – This is a network that anybody in Gorseinon can join. People can share the things they are looking for to live their lives, as well as the things that they wish to contribute to make the network help others. This information is collated so that people can be put in touch with others who either are looking for similar things or can help out. People who get involved are thanked with time credits which can be redeemed for a growing list of community activities, such as community cinema or access to events being organised locally.

A Wellbeing Alliance – The Alliance is made up of organisations that provide and commission services as well as community groups. This Alliance will support the growing Network; develop the time currency, as well as finding better ways to deliver support to people in Gorseinon.

When will it start?

We are working to launch Time Together in September 2010.

How will it help?

It is an experiment, however we think it will do the following things:

• It will help people to get to know each other and make it easier and more rewarding to get involved and contribute to the community.
• It will help to create more locally owned, person centred joined up services.
• If people get to know each other better we can use direct payments and other approaches to help them organise their own services in ways that work better for them.
• We can organise locally and create more employment for people who live in the community.
• We can all organise support (as well as potentially life opportunities) that create less waste, offer greater efficiency, and are more sustainable.

How can you get involved?

• If you deliver services or support in the Gorseinon area please contact us about you can help us build the Alliance by clicking here.
• If you live in the Gorseinon area and you want to get involved with people around you please let us know  by clicking here.

Information about our partners

• City and County of Swansea Social Services Department
• Gorseinon Development Trust
• Time Banking Wales
• Community Lives Consortium
• Swansea Council for Voluntary Service

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