I recently found a couple of great posts on Shareable.net by Janelle Orsi about how greater sharing will need changes to the law. Lawyers will also need to develop the contacts and frameworks for many aspects of sharing.
The first piece is called the birth of sharing law and examines the wide range of sharing initiatives [...]
When I started yours2share, I didn’t realise that I was starting a social enterprise, I just wanted to help people share stuff. As the number of private syndicates that were helped by yours2share increased, I also became aware that if as the number of partners in a private syndicates increases substantially, it becomes a [...]
Do you share a house, car, motorhome, boat, aircraft dog, horse or anything else? I’m always looking for examples of sharing in action to blog about on yours2share and, if they are really good and two or more partners are willing to be interviewed, for case studies. If you are happy to tell me about [...]
yours2share gets mentions and links from many and varied forum posts, but I had to have a look at this forum when I saw the link on the stats pages: PigeonWatch. The forum entry is actually about sharing allotments, but I was intrigued to find this forum devoted to pigeon shooting. With nearly a million [...]
I’d heard of cow sharing, where people pay for the purchase and upkeep of a whole, half or quarter of a cow which is then managed by a farmer, and this has always seemed such an easy idea.
I’d love to find someone to keep a chicken for me alongside their other chickens and as we [...]
Here’s another great garden sharing scheme: Garden Partners. Age Concern and Wandsworth Council have got together to enable elderly people who are struggling to cope with their gardens to find people who want to find somewhere to grow fruit and vegetables.
Many elderly people worry about the fact that they can’t look after their gardens, particularly [...]
I’ve just found that yours2share has climbed to third place in the listings if you search on Google for landshare, and following a few links as you do, found an enormous amount of information on allotments, growing your own fruit and veg, organic produce and sustainable food. I suppose that given “Britain is a nation [...]
I’ve finally managed to get yours2share‘s video onto YouTube!
If you want to see it in “high definition”, well much better quality, click here.
I’ve just commented on an article in last week’s Economist, my favourite newspaper. I don’t remember ever reading about allotments in it before, so this probably reflects the substantial change in the middle classes that make up their readership over the last year or so. Tending your allotment is no longer the preserve of slightly [...]
It’s good to see examples of garden sharing or landsharing in action and Totnes in Devon has been encouraging this for a year or more and has 21 garden shares currently in place. There is lots of useful information for anyone considering setting up a landshare, either as a landowner or as a gardener. yours2share [...]