Streetbank...

...is a website that allows you to see all that your neighbours are giving away or lending. It's a giant attic, garden shed, toolkit, fancy dress chest, library and DVD collection for you and anyone living within one mile of your home.

How it works

  1. Sign up for an account using your postcode.
  2. Add one thing that you would be prepared to help with, lend or give away.
  3. See people within one mile of you, and all their things.

Community Notices

Loper

I be grateful if someone is willing to lend me a loper on a pole.

hydraulic log splitter to borrow

hello, does anybody have a hydraulic log splitter you'd like to let us borrow? we'd pick it up & drop it off the same day. thanks

Projector and Speakers

Has anyone got a projector and speakers please? We wish to screen a film so the speakers are required.

Recent items

  • holistic treatment - indian head massage, hopi ear candling, bach flower remedy, reiki, chakra balancing

    Other

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    offer of help

  • Pets

    Child and Pet Care

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    offer of help

  • Calculator

    Other

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    offer of help

  • Garden shredder

    Garden Equipment

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    for borrowing

  • Find image by typing title eg. Set of 4 Trestle Tables

    Furniture

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    free to a good home

Streetbank News

Over to You!

For the last two months, Streetbank has been running a photo competition asking members to show us in one beautiful photo: ‘What does community mean to you?’

The shortlist is here and it’s over to you to let us know which photo you think should win. All you have to do is go to our facebook page, browse the four shortlisted pictures and put a comment beneath whichever photo you think should win. Easy? Yes, peasy.

Friendly Faces and Helping Hands

Newsletter 12th July 2012: It’s easy to forget sometimes that there are people in our neighbourhoods who can get overlooked. Only this week it was reported that half of the UK’s older citizens – around 5 million – view the television as their main source of company.

The A-to-Z of Streetbank

The dominant presence of massive online retailers like Amazon can make us rather complacent about our power to obtain even the most obscure products at the click of a mouse. The seemingly infinite bounty offered by this online cornucopia offers an unprecedented opportunity to engage our most idiosyncratic passions, from Chinese opera to bee-keeping; pogo-ing to the novels of Jeffrey Archer.

But what are the consequences of this trend? Our hyper-consumerism not only leads to busier roads, bulging cupboards and annoyance with getting into the damned parcels. It stops us from considering the wealth of resources that exist in our own community: objects lying unused, skills underexploited and human kindness left untapped. You’d be surprised at what can be obtained within a few miles of your home from people you see every day.

A Smart Guide to Utopia

How can we make our cities better? 

To answer this question, Barcelona publishing company LECOOL brought out a travel guide to a better city: A smart Guide to Utopia. The book, inspired by automotive company smart, the expert in urban mobility, presents 111 projects from across Europe that have made a positive, sustainable change to life in our cities. The projects range from urban farming to pop-up restaurants to sustainable design.

Holiday Helping Hand

Newsletter 28th June 2012: Holiday season is nearing and whether you’re airing your tent for a family camping trip, stacking up books for the beach or practising your dance moves for a festival or two, chances are you still need to organise a few vital things.