Basketball & Sharing Spaces
We heard a story this week about a group of inner city kids from Washington DC who went on a day trip. As they were sitting in the minibus, driving through an affluent suburb area they were in a...
Bay leaves, baby chilli plants and bicycle maintenance...
One of the great things we’ve seen happening through Streetbank is people sharing all sorts of things from their gardens. Bay leaves, baby chilli plants and even virginia creepers have bee...
Travel Cots, Tropical Fish and Muffin Tins...
It’s been a great week for extraordinary items on Streetbank – from Free Tropical Fish to Travel Cots, Muffin Tins to Accordion Lessons –the summer months may be fading but there might jus...
Fixing Streetbank
Dear Streeties, A few weeks ago we sent an urgent message to you all about junking - a huge thank you to all of you who rescued our emails from your junk folders. This has made a big differe...
G'day Streeties...
On Thursday this week we are taking part in ‘Free Money Day’ - giving money to our neighbours and encouraging them to do the same. If you think this sounds crazy check out our blog or go t...
Help a neighbour in just a minute
The Community Notices (www.streetbank.com/requests) are a great way to strike up conversation with other members of your community. Streeties are helping each other out, offering names of great ...
It's a reverse riot!
It has been a strange few days. The rioting in the first half of the week has been followed by a time of reflection in the second half. It seems the importance of community is being valued more ...
All change please...
Streetbank has a new homepage. So what have we changed? In short a lot. We’ve created a mini profile so you can add items and a photo more easily, we’ve made it easier to see what your neighbour...
Hey Big Lenders...
Lately, amongst the Streetie community we’ve noticed a rising number of extremely ‘Big Lenders’... we’re talking about Streeties who are offering over 20 things on their profile to give away, le...
A lovely bit of chitter chatter
As this summer has unfolded we’ve seen a flurry of activity on Streetbank Community Notice boards across the nation. With requests for gazebos, invites to community markets and pleas for gardeni...
A Season for Change...
With the longest day of the year on Tuesday and Wimbledon in full swing we can confidently say that summer has arrived... despite the drizzle. As the seasons have changed so, has the S...
Feel Good, Do Good, Live Good
We’ve been amazed at how big-hearted you Streeties have been this week. On offer to give away we’ve seen super-stylish plantation coffee tables, outdoor gas barbeques and an ENTIRE PA system! No...
Big Lunches, Baby Chilli Plants and a Bokashi Compost Bin.
Last Sunday, over a million people across the UK, got together for food, fun, games and conversation with their neighbours at thousands of Big Lunches. If you held one, well done! We hope ...
Blowing away the cobwebs...
From Prom Dresses to Acting Lessons, Flower Arranging to Organic Chicken Manure, it’s another week of inspired additions at Streetbank. These new things keep Streetbank fresh but are t...
You're Full of Bright Ideas...
Would you like to help shape Streetbank? We are looking for some Streeties who’ve had a few experiences of using Streetbank to find out how things went, what was good (what wasn’t so good) and w...
Honey Bees and Helping
This week we’ve been especially enjoying all the offers of help added to Streetbank. Try checking below - it may be that you are in the same area as someone offering ukulele lessons, help ...
Why do we all own a lawnmower?
Things are hotting up! This week Streetbank was featured on the BBC World Service, One Planet Show. You can still listen to Sam’s interview with Mike Williams at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplay...New Beginnings!
So the sun shone and the streets partied this weekend as the people of Britain came together to celebrate Will & Kate’s big day. We’ve heard of streets lined with flags and bunting, trestle ...
Strawberry plants, lawnmowers and vegetable seeds
It is looking like last week’s ten day forecast was a little optimistic – Friday’s weather in London and across the UK is likely to be fairly showery. We don’t think that will put Will and Kate ...
Roll out the Bunting
The weather forecast here in London is sunshine for the next ten days – promising a glorious Easter and hopefully a magical Royal Wedding. These two events will be bringing communities together ...
Real Bread Maker Week - The Rise of the Machines
A week or two ago we were called by Sarah who is involved in organising “Real Bread Maker Week – The Rise of the Machines” a title so compelling that we are delighted to publicise it! Appa...
Spring Clean
We've been watching what has been added to Streetbank over the last couple of weeks and have been wondering whether one or two streetbees have been having a Spring Clean. We've seen exercise bik...
The Creative Community - Juggling, Singing and Curtain Making
We’ve been looking into how people use Streetbank. We’ve been surprised – we found that the most popular requests are for items that are being given away (47%), then for offers of help (32%) an...
Half Price Tickets - Sustainable Living Show
A few days ago we received a call from a Streetbee, Philippa, whose day job is to organise "UK AWARE" a major sustainable living event being held at Kensington Olympia this Friday and Saturday (...Apologies, Scalectrics and Carpet Shampoo
Apologies - last week some people received several duplicate newsletters and others received no newsletter at all. If you are in either group we are sorry and grateful for your patience. If ...
Sustainable Living Offer and Getting Faster and Better
We received a call from Philippa, earlier in the week, whose day job is to organise "UK AWARE" a sustainable living event held at Kensington Olympia on Friday 25th and Saturday 26th March. Phi...
Chocolate Fountain, Cameras and not being a Bank!
This week we have been really grateful to Rosemary who has featured Streetbank in her residents association newsletter. She described Streetbank as “really local recycling” and had given away an...Big new milestone - 10,000th offer!
This week we reached another milestone as the 10,000th offer was made over streetbank. You might be interested to hear that it was a DVD of Slumdog Millionaire, which won Best Picture in 2009, a...Collaborative Consumption
Earlier this week Sam attended a conference on “collaborative consumption” – the idea that we can live better lives if we share our things and our time. It looked at some of the most interesting...Seed Potatoes, an Eletric Keyboard and the Royal Wedding
We get a little buzz every time we see a message sent to a Streetbank neighbour simply entitled "Thank you!". It makes us know that the neighbourly interaction has worked and created a bit of jo...Collaborative Consumption
If you woke up this morning feeling glum about the depressing economic growth (contraction) figures of yesterday it is worth checking out Rachel Botsman’s thought provoking/provocative TED talk ...Bookbinding, needlework and charity status
We never stop being amazed at the sheer variety of things and skills that are added to Streetbank. This week included a Mamas and Papas White Cot, Bookbinding and Terry Wogan’s Autobiography. ...