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===Spice Timebank=== Spice is a social enterprise that has developed a time-based currency called Time Credits. Spice works across health and social care, housing, community development and education, supporting organisations and services to use Time Credits to achieve their outcomes. Spice grew out of the work of the Wales Institute for Community Currencies in the former mining districts of South Wales, UK.<ref name="Monneta 2016">{{cite web | title=Spice - support for community time credits in the UK | website=Monneta | date=2016-02-15 | url=https://monneta.org/en/spice-support-for-community-time-credits-in-the-uk/ | access-date=2022-07-16}}</ref> Several Studies are done based on Spice Timebank or referenced this timebank.<ref name="Markkanen Burgess p. ">{{cite journal | last1=Markkanen | first1=Sanna | last2=Burgess | first2=Gemma | title=Introduction to time banking and Time Credits | date=2016 | publisher=Unpublished | doi=10.13140/RG.2.1.1069.7365 | url=http://rgdoi.net/10.13140/RG.2.1.1069.7365 | access-date=2022-07-16 | page=}}</ref><ref name="Bird Boyle 2014 p. ">{{cite book | last1=Bird | first1=S. | last2=Boyle | first2=D. | title=Give and Take: How timebanking is transforming healthcare | publisher=Timebanking UK | year=2014 | isbn=978-0-9930579-0-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LIiSBQAAQBAJ | access-date=2022-07-16 | page=}}</ref> In a 2016 survey, based on a 1000 members of Spice timebank, 77% of respondents said Time Credits have had a positive impact on their quality of life, 42% reported that they learned a new skill and 30% reported that they have less need to go to doctor.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://democracy.chorley.gov.uk/documents/s66712/Chorley%20Time%20Credits%20-%20Measuring%20the%20Impact%20Report%202016.pdf |title=How Spice Time Credits are creating system change |accessdate=2022-07-16 }}</ref>
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