Welcome

The Sharehood is all about sharing resources within your neighbourhood and helps you to meet and make friends with people in your local area. All sorts of things can be shared, such as sewing machines, vegetables, wheelbarrows, tools, cars, books and computers. Skills can be shared too: gardening help, bike fixing, accountancy, language skills, childminding, how to make wine or dance the tango. The Sharehood holds regular talks at different locations.

When you join the Sharehood you get to see what all other people within 400 metres of your home are willing to share. You might well be the first person in your neighbourhood to join the Sharehood, so the best way to get others to join is to grab a friend and go doorknocking or deliver a welcoming letter to nearby letterboxes explaining how the Sharehood works (we've drafted a letter for you to modify).

When you've found a number of interested neighbours you could organise a social event – such as a picnic at a local park – to get to know each other and get the ball rolling.

Through the website you can arrange local events, participate in online forums and contribute to a photo gallery.

If you're interested in organising a similar community in your local area, please read up about letterboxing and create yourself an account. If you have any questions, please send us an email.

If you want to check out the internal working of the website before you join, try logging in as 'pingu', with password 'pingu' as well. You won't be able to make any changes to anything, but will be able to get into our hood in the south pole!