Sharing with neighbours
Everyday people quietly carry out small acts of neighbourly kindness and help neighbours.
Neighbours’ SwapShop Kit
We offer a free Swap Shop Kit to encourage neighbours to lend or swap things, something like a swishing party plus. The Kit is freely available to use at street parties and mainly involves a chart on which people can write down their ‘Offers’ and ‘Wanted’ items. On the day, you stick the chart to a board as a ‘SwapSwop’ / ‘Bring & Buy’ table. You need to promote this in advance so that people can plan what to offer/want. It is also about helping, skills or knowledge. Here are some ideas:
- DVD or games ‘street library’
- Lending tools, swapping toys
- Keeping an eye on a neighbour’s house when away
- Helping with gardens or car cleaning
- sharing use of a car with a neighbour
- Knowing a good plumber, garage etc.
Download our free Kit and tell us
how it goes.
Getting Organised With Neighbours
Once you have got some swapping and sharing going, The Kit will help residents to plan and get organised at a deeper level.
- Supporting: Child care network, gardening club
- Taking action: improving a local park, Neighbourhood Watch
- Life-skills: DIY, bike/car maintenance, cooking, first aid, IT, painting, playing an instrument, dancing, singing
- Inter-generations: older and young people swapping expertise like reading, baking, IT
