About Community Timebanks

Welcome to Community Timebanks

Community Timebanks is an easy to use platform that helps communities and networks share time and support in simple, accessible ways.

Created by Made Open, an established and trusted community technology company based in the UK, Community Timebanks brings the powerful timebanking software we've developed over many years to smaller groups and local networks.

If you want an easy, affordable way to start a timebank without compromising on quality, Community Timebanks is the platform for you. Get started today and bring your community together.

Start a timebank 

Timebanking made simple

Community Timebanks work a bit like WhatsApp groups, but with timebanking built in. Each timebank is a space where people can exchange help, time and skills.

Unlike WhatsApp, Community Timebanks lets you as the timebank owner decide what your members can do. You can allow them to post offers, requests and events, log hours, respond to activities, earn badges, send thank yous and access small incentives to acknowledge contributions. All of this takes place within a system that supports fairness, trust and care.

If safeguarding is important to you, which of course it should be, Community Timebanks is built to higher standards. You can set privacy options and timebank rules, hide chatrooms, restrict access and moderate users. The minimum age to join a timebank is 16 and admins must be at least 18. You can also assign two admins to a group for extra support.

Remember, you’re in control

Every Community Timebank is shaped by its admin. If you're the timebank admin, you set the rules and the platform supports them.

For example, you can choose whether to:

• Let people join instantly or ask to join first.
• Make your timebank public, private or hidden.
• Turn the chatroom on or off.
• Choose whether only admins can add activities, or anyone can take part.

These options let you determine the right level of sensitivity for your timebank, which you can later change as trust and community spirit begins to grow.

Pricing

The lowest price for a Community Timebank is £500 per year (plus VAT if you're UK based). For our overseas customers, that's about US $675 per year. 

You can pay upfront or monthly (monthly costs a little more). All payments are made by direct debit and you can cancel your subscription at any time.

If you stop paying, your Community Timebank and all associated activities (offers / requests / events) will automatically disable at the end of your subscription. If you start paying again, it will automatically reenable. Nothing else changes - your members keep their personal accounts and their time credits.

Like most software subscriptions, you can upgrade to get extra features and support for your Community Timebank. The table below shows the available options.