Welcome to your sharing website
Connect Ceredigion has been created to bring communities and individuals together – a place where you can offer or request help to / from your neighbours and the wider community. There is no buying or selling here, just people helping people.
Why have we created this platform?
Ceredigion is a vibrant and positive place and we know that there is a strong volunteering culture already amongst our residents. Connect Ceredigion is not a volunteering platform however, it is a timebank.
Timebanking lets you offer help to anyone in your 'community' (street, village, town or county) in exchange for time credits. You can then spend your earned credits requesting help from others or donate them to friends, relatives or organisations who may value them more.
So this is not the place for traditional volunteering – this is the place for small random acts of kindness between people in Ceredigion, based on the individual skill you have to offer or the specific problem you need to be solved.
Who are West Wales Care Partnership?
The West Wales Care Partnership operate across Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. We are a collective of public and third (voluntary) sector organisations that include:
- Pembrokeshire County Council
- Carmarthenshire County Council
- Ceredigion County Council
- Hywel Dda Health Board
- Public Health Wales
- Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services
- Carmarthenshire Association of Voluntary Services
- Ceredigion Association of Voluntary Organisations
We have joined forces to create this platform for all citizens across West Wales. Currently, we are sustaining this platform and the efforts to resource it via the 'Transformation Fund'. We are always seeking useful partners to advance our work and are particularly interested in speaking to community minded private sector businesses.
Who is this platform for?
This platform is available to anyone who lives in Ceredigion. Our primary aim is to facilitate the exchange of offers and requests between people in all of our towns and villages.
We warmly invite applications from any volunteers living in Ceredigion who might be interested in the following roles (where you can also earn time credits):
Local Coordinator
This role is to allow people in your community to contact you directly, coordinate requests for help on their behalf, and ensure their exchange with a fellow neighbour is managed promptly and safely.
Digital Champion
If you are IT savvy and have some time on your hands, please consider applying for this role - helping others to improve their profiles, explain the concept of tags and familiarise less IT savvy people with the platform.
How does it work?
You will need to complete a two-stage registration process to join the timebank:
- Step 1: Register on this platform.
- Step 2: Apply to join the timebank (we aim to approve all applications within 24 hours).
Once you have joined the timebank, you can post as many offers and requests as you like.
Joining the timebank means signing up to our timebank terms and conditions, which offer guidelines for keeping you and your loved ones safe. If you are requesting help on behalf of a vulnerable or elderly relative / neighbour / friend, please ensure you don’t reveal any personally identifiable information about them. Just describe what you need and where (broadly) you need it.
While we have guidelines and work upon the assumption that people will help one another to the best of their abilities, this is not a professional service and all activity takes place at your own risk.