Pass on a Pie!
2010 has been a big year for Streetbank. We spent the first few months of the year recruiting friends and generous West London residents to be Streetbank guinea pigs. Thanks for trusting us! In ...
A Good Gift
Christmas Greetings! We have been reflecting on what makes for the best present on Christmas day. Is it usually the most expensive one? Is it the one that precisely matches what we asked for...A Top Five
We're often asked what are the most popular things/skills that people request on Streetbank. This week we've had a go at answering that question and we are a bit stumped. How do you categorise s...
Happy Advent!
It seems premature to say Happy Christmas but it being December 1st we would like to wish you a Happy Advent! - we hope you have a good run up to Christmas and enjoy this time of expectant waiti...1 mile to 10 miles!
Over the next few weeks we're going to be doing something behind the scenes that will allow you to widen your Streetbank community to 10 miles if you want to. You will only be able to see other ...Asparagus, guinea pigs and honeymoons
There is much to update you on this week! Perhaps the best thing for us was a wonderful email from Maire from Fulham who told us what a difference Streetbank had made to her. This is what sh...
Did we make it?!
A big apology to those of you who didn't receive the newsletter last week. It was a complicated techy thing that is sorted now... So you might remember that two weeks ago we set the goal of 5,00...
Did we make it?!
It has been a good week - to be honest we didn't quite reach our goal of 5,000 members by today but we got darn close - at the time of writing we have 4,988 members. We didn't help ourselves by ...
Correction - The Facebook Challenge
Apologies – for many of you the link to connect with facebook did not work – thanks for trying but we would be really grateful if you could try again by clicking here - it will make a huge diffe...
A Plug from Higgidy Pies
The big news this week is that Streetbank is being featured on the side of special boxes of Higgidy Pies. Higgidy is a baker and maker of the finest hand made pies and they have just developed ...
The Facebook Challenge
We would love 30 seconds of your time – it will make a big difference. We would love it if you could connect your Facebook account with your Streetbank account by clicking here and then clicking...
A Quick Favour
Apparently 75% of British people think that helping others is key to happiness. As a streetbanker we are pretty sure you will be in the 75% but if you would like to read more about how life is m...Bananas, Nemo and Board Games
When we're asked what is the most common request on streetbank we struggle to answer. Tesco know that they sell more bananas than anything else. But then, Streetbankers don't make it easy for us...
A doubling, tomato plants and TV tuning
Thank you for everything you are doing to spread the word - we now have 4,200 members - a doubling in less than two months. At this rate we will have 10,000 streetbankers by Christmas. That woul...
Trimming back, pretty parrots and a small introduction
We were pleased to see a number of interesting items featured on Streetbank this week - including a community request for a parrot, to take part in a fashion shoot. Perhaps more entertaining was...
An attitude of gratitude
More fun things have been added this week - thanks Patricia for putting up a flatscreen TV. Our favourite though are cooking apples added by Hilary. Thanks Hilary. When we explain Streetbank...A Tipping Point, Facebook Fans and Turkey
So what's news? Streetbank seems to have hit a bit of a tipping point. It took us 4 months to reach our first 1,000 members, 3 months to reach 2,000 and just two and a half weeks to get to 3...Scotland, a new tally and hedgehogs
It has been an interesting week at Streetbank. A few of the highlights have been: Being featured in the Big Issue and in the Scotland on Sunday Magazine. Creating a new tally on th...
Requests, recommendations and events
We've enjoyed seeing the number of requests messages shooting up in the last week or two. Ladders seemed to be the most frequently asked for item but we've seen requests for lego bricks (but onl...
Tell us your stories!
We’d love to hear your Streetbank stories! We’re beginning to get some press coverage (details can be found on the site under Press - a tab at the bottom of the page) such as in the Daily Candy...
Tidying up and "staycations"
Greetings We’ve just been doing a bit of a survey and found that 86% of requests for a thing or a skill get a response. Thanks for being so community spirited! Admittedly you don’t always ge...
Hotting up
Greetings, You may have noticed that things have hotted up at Streetbank over the last week or so. The main reason was a recommendation by The Daily Candy, the London newsletter that keeps y...
Mary's Garden Team
Streetbee of the week is Paul from Hammersmith. Paul has an elderly friend, Mary who’s garden has gone to seed (is this a pun or simply literal. We don’t know). Paul spotted a couple of generous...
Welcome to our first international member
It's been a very exciting week this week because... Streetbank has gone international! You might be thinking that this slightly premature, but we do like to think ahead. We'd very much ...
A Huge Welcome to Leeds!
It has been another exciting couple of weeks. We want to welcome on board Leeds – you seem to be joining in droves! We’re not sure who is behind it but if it is you we salute you. We were also ...
Community makes you richer (part 1)
At the Streetbank party we challenged you to tell us your best stories about community. We loved the story of a neighbour who rescued three young ladies from a mouse. We thought this was quite nobl...
Big Week!
It’s been a Big Week what with an erupting volcano and the second leadership debate. It has also been a Big Week at Streetbank. You have got a whole load busier – we’ve seen sandpits, table t...
Streetbank Party - Pies, Cakes and Tomato Plants
Thanks so much to those of you who were able to join in with the Streetbank Launch Party last Thursday. Over 150 of you participated in an evening of Higgidy Pie eating, skill swapping, unicycling,...
The Streetbank Party (and you're all invited)
Streetbank is having a PARTY! Come and celebrate the launch of Streetbank and meet some of the local Streetbank community at St Paul’s Church, Hammersmith on Thurs 15th April from 6.15 – 9pm. All a...
A month in which we add the "requests" feature, crown our streetbee of the month and have a BIG PARTY...
Hello! A lot has been happening. Streetbank has really taken off in East Dulwich, Hello East Dulwich! We launched the REQUESTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS feature and lots of you have tried it out – amon...