http://interconnected.org/home/mini/_7654 Links alongside interconnected.org (Single link 7654) Copyright Matt Webb http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3499217.stm "The chancellor also used his speech to say more needed to be done to boost mentoring schemes as a source of help and advice. 'I wonder, for instance, whether - whilst taking consideration of child safety issues - we could not explore more innovative ways of recruiting people to be mentors and of course helping people in need of help,' he said. He suggested lessons could be learned from the success of websites like Friends Reunited and EBay in creating social networks." ...which is what the Timebank people had said to him the day before.

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