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Exciting news! We're delighted to announce our fundraising webshop. When shopping online, you can access over 100 leading retailers using our webshop. Every time you use our webshop when shopping online, you'll automatically earn money for us! You don't pay anything extra by using our webshop, so please try to use it whenever you can.
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'Time for action'
Congratulations to Rushey Green Timebank,
2008 LHC Awards winner.
On 10th July Simone Boothe, of the LHC core team attended "Celebrating Our Communities", Lewisham Timebank's conference at Lewisham Town Hall. Edgar Cahn, founder and Chairman of Timebanks USA gave a heartfelt and uplifting speech about how he created the first timebank in the USA and timebanking has grown and positively affected communities around the world.
Philippe Granger, RGTB Development Manager had this to say about winning the LHC Award. "The impact of this award has been phenomenal in that it further energized the time bank and helped us secure some core funding until March 2011. Our prize film beautifully captures the heart and vision of our time bank and its impact in our lives."
Simone also attend the Timebank's AGM and 9th birthday celebrations and spoke about it's work . Fittingly, the event took place on 2 July - a year to the day of them winning the 'Partnership achievement with the NHS' Category of the 2008 LHC Awards. The trophy was proudly displayed and all those who attended and members thanked the Commission for its support since winning the award. Simone, Philippe and timebank members at the AGM
You can view Rushey Green Timebank's prize film 'Video of the TimeBank in Action' at their web site - http://www.rgtb.org.uk/videos.html. You can also watch Jon Snow interview Edgar Cahn for the Community Channel.
Ends.
The winners of the 2008 LHC Awards are:
Myatt's Field North Youth Forum - Cohesive Communities category and Mayor's Award
Joy of Sound - Mental Health category
Rushey Green Time Bank - Partnership with NHS category
Combination Dance - Partnership with local government category
Educational Alliance Africa - Lupus Support Network - Community campaigning and advocacy category
For more information on the Awards and the winners visit the LHC web site. Copies of all the films will be uploaded very soon.
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