Measure your achievements by keeping in touch with how time banking is changing people’s lives. Check out with people how their opportunities and life experiences are expanding and how their social networks are growing. Record the projects that you take on together.

Be proud of what you are doing. We live in a culture where people will criticise anything new but quickly claim it as their own if it is a success. Contribute to local newsletters and let people know about your activities.

Collect stories and take pictures and videos of things as they happen. A scrapbook can be a great source of inspiration for new activities as well as an attractive and readable record of the good times you have all had together.

Amplify the voices that need to be heard. You will come across unmet social needs that you cannot tackle alone. There will be people who have shifted from being dependent on others to taking more control of their lives.

People need to know about these things.