Chorley Time Credits Update

May 2015

Highlights

The new 2015 Time Credits brochure is now out! The number of ways to
spend has increased significantly with some new leisure activities and a
huge extension to the adult learning courses now available. Just search
Time Credits at chorley.gov.uk to download it.
Weve been working with teams in the council to link Time Credits to a
number of the 2015-2016 mandates and are looking forward to working
with respective teams to roll out this work .
Filming for the Public Health video showcasing Time Credits in Chorley
and Gillian Welsh from the Chorley Peer Support Recovery Group has now
been done and we are eagerly awaiting the final edition. Well share this
as soon as its ready.

Highlights

New materials to help groups and teams within the council to use Time
Credits inn the community have been developed following co-design
work with the Neighbourhoods and Community Teams. Special thanks to
John Peet from the Neighbourhood Officers team for his help.
The first Welsh Time Credit notes were received via Active Nation - All
Seasons Leisure Centre. Many of you will know that Wales was where it all
started for Time Credits so we were really pleased to find out that Time
Credits earned there made their way to Chorley recently!
Huge thanks to everyone who supported and took part in the recent Time
Credits Annual Impact Survey, as soon as the draw for the i-pad has taken
place well let everyone know who the lucky winner is!

Ad hoc earning highlights weve met lots of new

people through one off earning events !
Snowdrop Planting in Astley Park
Yarn Bombing in support of Chorley Grand Prix
Chorley Couch to 5k

Britain in Bloom - activities across the borough

Council clean ups and skip days
Hoghton Bottoms river Clean up

Welcome to our new partners !

New ways to spend: the very latest additions
that you will find in the new brochure..

Mid Lancs BMX BMX sessions

Energy in Life - Yoga sessions
Stylish You Confidence coaching
Wells Dean CV writing
Lancashire Adult Learning extension to existing
offer, now includes all courses across Lancashire

Spending - well done and thank you to

groups and partners who devised one off
community spend for all Time Credit earners
to access

Confidence Gym by Living Waters

3 Book signing events by Diane Ebb and Flow
Bookshop
Whats your Story by Chorley Council
Easter Egg Hunt by Astley Walled Gardeners
(pictured)
Fashion Show by Chorley MS Society

Spend Activity, whos spending where ?

Last 12 months Top Ten
No 1 - All Seasons - Active
Nation

No 6 Brinscall Baths
Active Nation

No 2 - Puddletown Pirates

No 7 - Chorley Little Theatre

No 3 - Trips

No 8 - Bolton Wanderers

No 4 - Car Parking

No 9 - Clayton Green Leisure

Active Nation

No 5 - Lancashire Adult
Learning

No 10 - Libraries

A massive thank you to all partners for their fantastic support !

Time Credit sessions with volunteers

We visited Homestart recently and met with

lots of their volunteers to talk about spending
Time Credits. Thank you for having us!
If you would like us to come and talk to your
volunteers to encourage tem to spend their Time
Credits or ask us questions please get in touch

Coming up our get together

everyone is welcome.
Youre invited to come and join us on 25th June at St
Marys Church Hall, Chorley for a Time Credits get
together.
This event is open to all, groups, organisations and
individuals who are connected (or want to be connected!)
to Time Credits in Chorley.
Refreshments in the form or plenty of cake and biscuits
and a great chance to find out about the new ways to
spend , meet others who are involved and meet the Time
Credits team!
Just click here to book, wed love to see you!

And finally, great news about the size

of the network..

Huge thanks to all of you who complete the Time Credit

data returns for your groups. From this information we can
tell you that 26,232 hours of Time Credited activity has
taken place to date and over 1350 people have earned a
Time Credit in Chorley!
Our evaluation also tells us that 45% of these people had
not regularly given their time before.