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But Streetbank’s not just helping build communities, it’s also saving a London council money through stopping items from going to landfill.</b></p><p><a href="http://www.streetbank.com/">Streetbank</a>, which launched across the UK in 2010, was founded by Londoner Sam Stephens, who found that through <a href="http://www.streetbank.com/about?locale=en">sharing things with his neighbours</a>, he was getting to know them as friends too. He teamed up with a web developer, and now 55,000 people are signed up to the site.</p><p>While people have used the web to give away unwanted items before, Streetbank allows people to borrow items or give their time to somebody who needs help.</p><p>“As well as giving away something, you can share things – not everyone needs to own things that only get used once or twice a year,” says Streetbank’s Kate Groves.</p><p>“You can share skills, too – so you can walk the dog, mow the lawn or give someone advice on marketing or communications.</p><p>“We want people to start talking to each other, to become friends or build a sense of community.”</p><p>To sign up, you don’t need to offer something straight away – you just enter your name and postcode. You can then see what’s on offer in the square mile around your home – a neighbourhood you can expand to up to 10 miles.</p><p>Then when you offer something, your 250 nearest neighbours are told by email. The site also allows users to post notices about local events and public meetings.</p><p>Groves is a keen user herself. “I have it set at 10 miles, so I can talk to more people. I got a cot for my sister’s baby and got a massage in exchange for doing some administrative task. I’ve had aloe vera plants and jam jars through Streetbank.”</p><p><b>Camden success</b></p><p>Streetbank <a href="http://www.nesta.org.uk/news/innovation-giving-fund-makes-further-awards-boost-social-action">gained funding from Nesta and the Cabinet Office</a> in 2012 through their Innovation in Giving fund, which backed ideas for increasing volunteering and charitable giving.</p><p>It’s having real results in north London, where Camden Council’s sustainability team commissioned Streetbank to deliver a targeted campaign in the borough.</p><p>The project has seen Streetbank’s users in the borough treble to nearly 1,000, generating 150 meetings each month to share goods and services.</p><p>As well as the community benefit, the scheme helped divert nine tons of rubbish away from landfill. In the past month, Camden residents have given away a digital TV box, a futon and base, a desk and chair, touch-typing skills and spiritual healing classes.</p><p>“It’s buzzing,” Groves says. Part of the Camden campaign has seen Streetbank host offline “give and take” events as well (pictured right). “I remember meeting a woman who simply couldn’t believe that everything was free,” she recalls. “A couple of people wanted to donate money.”</p><p>Now Hounslow Council is giving Streetbank a grant to run campaigns in west London – this time the money’s coming from its community cohesion team.</p><p>One Streetbank user, Richard MacKenzie, took it upon himself to promote it in his home town of from Witney, Oxfordshire. He managed to build user numbers up to the level where when he asked if anyone had a guitar, he had one in his hands within an hour.</p><p>He explains how it helped him cope with mental health issues. “You get to know and you get that connection with people in your community. You feel good about doing something for your community. For me, a year and a bit ago, I was feeling completely suicidal and didn’t want to live, feeling completely isolated from the community,” he says.</p><p>“Now I can walk from my house into town, less than a mile away, and on every occasion I can bump into someone and feel comfortable. 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>Bhutan</option> <option value="Bolivia" >Bolivia</option> <option value="Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba" >Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba</option> <option value="Bosnia and Herzegovina" >Bosnia and Herzegovina</option> <option value="Botswana" >Botswana</option> <option value="Bouvet Island" >Bouvet Island</option> <option value="Brazil" >Brazil</option> <option value="British Indian Ocean Territory" >British Indian Ocean Territory</option> <option value="Brunei Darussalam" >Brunei Darussalam</option> <option value="Bulgaria" >Bulgaria</option> <option value="Burkina Faso" >Burkina Faso</option> <option value="Burundi" >Burundi</option> <option value="Cambodia" >Cambodia</option> <option value="Cameroon" >Cameroon</option> <option value="Canada" >Canada</option> <option value="Cape Verde" >Cape Verde</option> <option value="Cayman Islands" >Cayman Islands</option> <option value="Central African Republic" >Central African Republic</option> <option value="Chad" >Chad</option> <option value="Chile" >Chile</option> <option value="China" >China</option> <option value="Christmas Island" >Christmas Island</option> <option value="Cocos (Keeling) Islands" >Cocos (Keeling) Islands</option> <option value="Colombia" >Colombia</option> <option value="Comoros" >Comoros</option> <option value="Congo" >Congo</option> <option value="Cook Islands" >Cook Islands</option> <option value="Costa Rica" >Costa Rica</option> <option value="Cote D'Ivoire" >Cote D'Ivoire</option> <option value="Croatia" >Croatia</option> <option value="Cuba" >Cuba</option> <option value="Curacao" >Curacao</option> <option value="Cyprus" >Cyprus</option> <option value="Czech Republic" >Czech Republic</option> <option value="Democratic Republic of the Congo" >Democratic Republic of the Congo</option> <option value="Denmark" >Denmark</option> <option value="Djibouti" >Djibouti</option> <option value="Dominica" >Dominica</option> <option value="Dominican Republic" >Dominican Republic</option> <option value="Ecuador" >Ecuador</option> <option value="Egypt" >Egypt</option> <option value="El Salvador" >El Salvador</option> <option value="Equatorial Guinea" >Equatorial Guinea</option> <option value="Eritrea" >Eritrea</option> <option value="Estonia" >Estonia</option> <option value="Ethiopia" >Ethiopia</option> <option value="Falkland Islands" >Falkland Islands</option> <option value="Faroe Islands" >Faroe Islands</option> <option value="Fiji" >Fiji</option> <option value="Finland" >Finland</option> <option value="France" >France</option> <option value="French Guiana" >French Guiana</option> <option value="French Polynesia" >French Polynesia</option> <option value="French Southern Territories" >French Southern Territories</option> <option value="Gabon" >Gabon</option> <option value="Gambia" >Gambia</option> <option value="Georgia" >Georgia</option> <option value="Germany" >Germany</option> <option value="Ghana" >Ghana</option> <option value="Gibraltar" >Gibraltar</option> <option value="Greece" >Greece</option> <option value="Greenland" >Greenland</option> <option value="Grenada" >Grenada</option> <option value="Guadeloupe" >Guadeloupe</option> <option value="Guam" >Guam</option> <option value="Guatemala" >Guatemala</option> <option value="Guernsey" >Guernsey</option> <option value="Guinea" >Guinea</option> <option value="Guinea-Bissau" >Guinea-Bissau</option> <option value="Guyana" >Guyana</option> <option value="Haiti" >Haiti</option> <option value="Heard and Mc Donald Islands" >Heard and Mc Donald Islands</option> <option value="Honduras" >Honduras</option> <option value="Hong Kong" >Hong Kong</option> <option value="Hungary" >Hungary</option> <option value="Iceland" >Iceland</option> <option value="India" >India</option> <option value="Indonesia" >Indonesia</option> <option value="Iran" >Iran</option> <option value="Iraq" >Iraq</option> <option value="Ireland" >Ireland</option> <option value="Isle of Man" >Isle of Man</option> <option value="Israel" >Israel</option> <option value="Italy" >Italy</option> <option value="Jamaica" >Jamaica</option> <option value="Japan" >Japan</option> <option value="Jersey (Channel Islands)" >Jersey (Channel Islands)</option> <option value="Jordan" >Jordan</option> <option value="Kazakhstan" >Kazakhstan</option> <option value="Kenya" >Kenya</option> <option value="Kiribati" >Kiribati</option> <option value="Kuwait" >Kuwait</option> <option value="Kyrgyzstan" >Kyrgyzstan</option> <option value="Lao People's Democratic Republic" >Lao People's Democratic Republic</option> <option value="Latvia" >Latvia</option> <option value="Lebanon" >Lebanon</option> <option value="Lesotho" >Lesotho</option> <option value="Liberia" >Liberia</option> <option value="Libya" >Libya</option> <option value="Liechtenstein" >Liechtenstein</option> <option value="Lithuania" >Lithuania</option> <option value="Luxembourg" >Luxembourg</option> <option value="Macau" >Macau</option> <option value="Macedonia" >Macedonia</option> 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Guinea</option> <option value="Paraguay" >Paraguay</option> <option value="Peru" >Peru</option> <option value="Philippines" >Philippines</option> <option value="Pitcairn" >Pitcairn</option> <option value="Poland" >Poland</option> <option value="Portugal" >Portugal</option> <option value="Puerto Rico" >Puerto Rico</option> <option value="Qatar" >Qatar</option> <option value="Republic of Kosovo" >Republic of Kosovo</option> <option value="Reunion" >Reunion</option> <option value="Romania" >Romania</option> <option value="Russia" >Russia</option> <option value="Rwanda" >Rwanda</option> <option value="Saint Kitts and Nevis" >Saint Kitts and Nevis</option> <option value="Saint Lucia" >Saint Lucia</option> <option value="Saint Martin" >Saint Martin</option> <option value="Saint Vincent and the Grenadines" >Saint Vincent and the Grenadines</option> <option value="Samoa (Independent)" >Samoa (Independent)</option> <option value="San Marino" >San Marino</option> <option value="Sao Tome and Principe" >Sao Tome and Principe</option> <option value="Saudi Arabia" >Saudi Arabia</option> <option value="Senegal" >Senegal</option> <option value="Serbia" >Serbia</option> <option value="Seychelles" >Seychelles</option> <option value="Sierra Leone" >Sierra Leone</option> <option value="Singapore" >Singapore</option> <option value="Sint Maarten" >Sint Maarten</option> <option value="Slovakia" >Slovakia</option> <option value="Slovenia" >Slovenia</option> <option value="Solomon Islands" >Solomon Islands</option> <option value="Somalia" >Somalia</option> <option value="South Africa" >South Africa</option> <option value="South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands" >South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands</option> <option value="South Korea" >South Korea</option> <option value="South Sudan" >South Sudan</option> <option value="Spain" >Spain</option> <option value="Sri Lanka" >Sri Lanka</option> <option value="St. Helena" >St. Helena</option> <option value="St. Pierre and Miquelon" >St. Pierre and Miquelon</option> <option value="Sudan" >Sudan</option> <option value="Suriname" >Suriname</option> <option value="Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands" >Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands</option> <option value="Swaziland" >Swaziland</option> <option value="Sweden" >Sweden</option> <option value="Switzerland" >Switzerland</option> <option value="Syria" >Syria</option> <option value="Taiwan" >Taiwan</option> <option value="Tajikistan" >Tajikistan</option> <option value="Tanzania" >Tanzania</option> <option value="Thailand" >Thailand</option> <option value="Timor-Leste" >Timor-Leste</option> <option value="Togo" >Togo</option> <option value="Tokelau" >Tokelau</option> <option value="Tonga" >Tonga</option> <option value="Trinidad and Tobago" >Trinidad and Tobago</option> <option value="Tunisia" >Tunisia</option> <option value="Turkey" >Turkey</option> <option value="Turkmenistan" >Turkmenistan</option> <option value="Turks & Caicos Islands" >Turks & Caicos 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