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Where members volunteer their skills and in return get help from other members free of charge. Help offered and received has included a retired carpenter mending a broken chest of drawers that a member couldn't afford to replace, baking and help with gardening.
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The Skills Exchange has been very popular with retired, unemployed and isolated people. The members as well as offering help to each other also organise a popular weekly coffee morning and social events. Some elderly members especially have welcomed the chance to use their skills again and feel appreciated. The Skills Exchange operates in a very disadvantaged inner city area of Nottingham. It employs a worker who recruits new members and makers sure that a number of safeguards are in place to protect members. One of these is that exchnages are always arranged through the worker.