Thank you for signing up to join the Easier Life community. We’re delighted to welcome you to our Krishna-conscious initiative, which fosters a supportive, transparent, and spiritually vibrant network.
Before you begin your journey with Easier Life Timebank, we need to verify a few details to ensure a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.
What’s Next?
We will review your application as quickly as possible. Once approved, you will receive an email notification giving full access to the platform and its resources.
In the meantime, feel free to:
- Explore Our About Us Pages: Learn more about the Easier Life mission, values, and offerings.
- Contact Support: Reach out if you have any questions or need assistance.
Your Membership
What’s Included in Your Membership?
- A safe, supportive environment to exchange services and skills with other members.
- Invitations to workshops and events to deepen your Krishna consciousness and personal development.
- You will receive Easier Life Timebank’s exclusive support documents by email.
Edit Your Application
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Support, Care, and Knowing Your Limits
Summary
This reminds members that offering support on the Easier Life Timebank is entirely voluntary and flexible. You’re not expected to take on more than you're comfortable with. If someone reaches out with more complex needs — like elderly care or help at home — you should feel free to set boundaries and signpost them to professional support if needed.
It also covers practical advice around risk, safeguarding, and sensible precautions when exchanging services such as DIY or childcare. The main message: offer what you can, stay within your capacity, and use the documents and tools provided to help keep things safe, clear, and mutually respectful.
Key Points
- Your Choice, Your Capacity: You decide what kind of support you want to offer — there's no pressure to take on big responsibilities.
- Set Clear Boundaries: Be upfront about what you can and can’t do when someone asks for help, especially if it's care-related.
- Have a Conversation First: Before helping someone at home, arrange a phone or video call to learn about their situation (e.g., do they already have support?).
- Suggest a Social Worker if Needed: If someone needs ongoing care and doesn’t have proper support, encourage them to contact their local adult social care team — or help them do it before getting any further involved.
- Expect a Delay: Social care processes can take a few months, so manage expectations.
- Use the Risk Documents Provided: These include guidance on general safety, supporting children, and safeguarding vulnerable people.
- Be Cautious with Practical Jobs: For things like painting or household help, it’s best to deal with people you know or those with explicit references.
- Childcare Requires Caution: Only trust those with a valid DBS certificate when it comes to children or vulnerable adults.
- Act Like You Would in Real Life: Use common sense — just because someone is a devotee doesn’t mean usual safety checks don’t apply.
- Documentation Helps Everyone: Use the forms and agreements provided if you’re taking on a more involved role.
Easier Life Documents & Information
Summary
At first glance, the documents and guidance you receive by email might seem like a lot for a volunteer-based exchange platform. That’s a fair reaction, but these resources were created to help ensure everyone feels respected, safe, and supported.
Based on real-life experiences where things could have been handled better, these tools structure our interactions while keeping everything aligned with the mood of service, clarity, and care.
They're not there to overwhelm — they’re there to help devotees support one another responsibly, especially when offering or receiving more involved services. This is about building trust, not bureaucracy.
Key Points
- Why So Much Info?
It might feel like a lot, but it’s based on real needs — to treat each other with more care, respect, and clarity. - Service Agreements
Optional for casual exchanges, but useful when supporting someone you don’t know well or when the support is more involved. - Risk Assessments
Helps you think ahead when offering support in someone’s home or with vulnerable individuals. - Confidentiality Agreements
Useful for mentoring, coaching, or offering emotional support — helps create a safe and private space. - Financial Transparency Guidance
Especially important for those offering help in someone’s home to protect both parties, especially around money and valuables. Financial Transparency Guidance - Not Bureaucracy — Just Clarity
These tools are grounded in Vaishnava values: trust, open-heartedness, and safe exchanges. - Feedback & Complaints Templates
Ready-made forms to help handle things clearly if something goes wrong. - Dispute Process
encourages devotees to resolve issues directly with each other, but support from mediators or the Vaishnava Council is available if needed. This will be formulated with the interest of eligible Timebank members.
Administrator Involvement
The platform is decentralised. If appropriate, the Timebank administrator, Chaitanya Jivan Das, may step in, but the aim is to keep exchanges peer-led and self-managed. - Bottom Line
These resources protect what matters: a sincere, caring, Krishna-conscious way of helping one another.
Full Details - Easier Life Documents & Information