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Introducing Favours

Help others
Earn Favours.
Get what you need.

A new way to exchange value. We believe your skills and time are the most stable currency in the world.
Earn Favours, give Favours, build new connections and grow together.

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Supported by:

Swansea UniversityLoughborough Enterprise NetworkTattelLoughborough UniversityXPRIZEBMHS

Money shouldn't be the only way
we help each other.

Hard to find “your” people

Finding trustworthy experts within our own circles shouldn't be a struggle. We bridge the gap between people who have talent and those who need it.

The “Friendship Tax”

Charging friends feels awkward and doing it for free isn't sustainable. We need a better way to balance the book. Kabarter is the solution.

Isolated expertise

Incredible talent exist right on your street but we've lost the community. So Kabarter exist to serve as a "digital village square" to connect us again.

Simple Process

How Kabarter Works

Getting started is easy. Four simple steps to start exchanging skills and building your community.

Create Your Profile

Sign up and list your skills, services, or products. Tell the community what you can offer from hair braiding to web design.

Discover & Connect

Browse skills and services in your community. Use tags and categories to find exactly what you need from people near you.

Exchange & Grow

Propose an exchange: skill for skill, favour for favour, or a combination. Build relationships while getting things done.

Complete and Earn

Someone accepts your offer? Do the thing. Once they confirm it's done, the favours land in your account. Simple as that, no chasing.

Favour Model

The Favour model and how it runs kabarter Ecosystem.

On Kabarter, a Favour is the instrument of exchange of values.
Because cash makes neighbourhood help feel transactional, and free help leaves the most generous people exhausted. Favours sit in the middle, they record the swap without taxing the friendship. It is a unit of goodwill.

The Favour Model

An honest currency, set by your neighbours.

Favours never inflate, never expire, and never get sold to a payments processor. You earn them. You spend them. You can convert back to cash if you must, but most people don't bother.

Get my starter Favours

Spending power1 Favour= £0.50 of help

Buy with cash£0.60→1 Favour

Cash out (if you want)1 Favour→£0.45

Per-swap platform fee1 Favour

The small spread keeps Favours circulating and the platform running. We'd rather see Favours come back to the community than leave it.

Three ways to exchange on Kabarter

Trade skill for skill

Cloth alteration

Amara

Photography

James

Trade skill for Favours

Cooking Lessons

Meenakshi

60 Favours

Kai

Trade skill and Favours for skill

Design + 15 Favours

Claire

Legal Advice

Marcus

Exchange Skills,
Not Just Money

Kabarter's Favour model lets you trade what you know for what you need. It's a cashless economy built on trust, community, and mutual growth.

Community-First Approach

Build genuine relationships while exchanging value. Every trade strengthens the community.

Trust & Safety Built-In

Verified profiles, reviews, and a reputation system ensure safe and reliable exchanges.

Flexible Exchange Options

Go fully cashless, partially paid, or any combination that works for both parties.

Service Categories

People use kabarter for all kinds of
everyday things.

Home-cooked meals

Maria makes extra portions when she cooks. Neighbours in her area get a hot dinner, and she earns Favours.

120+ Skills

DIY & Repairs

Tom is handy with tools. He fixes shelves, hangs pictures, bleeds radiators all for Favours that he uses to get his accounts done.

85+ Skills

Tutoring & Skills

Anya teaches Spanish in exchange for Favours. She uses them to book guitar lessons from someone else in the community.

60+ Skills

Lifts & errands

Driving to the supermarket anyway? Offer a spare seat or pick something up for a neighbour. Small efforts, real value.

70+ Skills

Pet & Childcare

Dogs walk, cat-sitting while you're away, picking up the kids from school. The kinds of help that money often makes awkward.

90+ Skills

Digital help

Building a website, sorting out a printer, designing a poster. Tech skills are some of the most valued Favours in any community.

80+ Skills

From the community

You've heard from us, now hear from our community.

"I haven't paid cash for a haircut in months. Did three Mandarin lessons for Kwame's daughter, and his clippers are sharper than the salon's anyway."

Jasmin Chen

Mandarin tutor · Chinatown

"As a single mum, the velocity rule felt strict at first. Then I realised once I helped one neighbour, the whole community opened up. It works."

Aisha Mohammed

Childminder · Whitechapel

"Kabarter put a number on something we already did informally. My nan called it 'the modern WhatsApp prayer chain' — high praise from her."

Dele Adeyemi

Founder, Brixton Tools Library

Who Kabarter is For

Built for our communities.
Open to anyone who shows up.

Kabarter is rooted in Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic communities (BAME). The people who have always held each other up. If you're not from a BAME background but you want to contribute genuinely to one of these communities, you are welcome here.

The one who always helps

You're the person everyone calls. You cook, fix, advise, translate, and rarely get it back. Kabarter makes sure the community sees your contribution and returns it.

Recently arrived, building roots

New to the UK (or a new city). You have skills, you have needs, and you're trying to find your footing without paying through the nose for every little thing.

Raising a family between two worlds

You want your children to know their language, their food, their culture, and you need childcare, school support, and a village around you.

Skilled but undervalued

Sometimes your qualifications are not valued so highly, especially without prior experience in the country you are in. Kabarter lets you demonstrate your skills within a community that already knows your worth.

Not from a BAME background? You're still welcome, as long as you come to give, not just to get. Kabarter works because everyone contributes.

Be the First to Know

Ready to Start
Exchanging?

Kabarter is launching soon. Join our waitlist to get early access, exclusive updates, and be part of the community from day one.

200+ people on the waitlist

Free Favours for early adoptors

Questions, answered

The bits people usually ask first.

No. Kabarter has no surge pricing, no shadow rating systems, no algorithm pushing you to take work you don't want. It's a closed community where everyone knows the rules and the currency is shared.

Because cash makes neighbourly help feel transactional, and free help leaves the most generous people exhausted. Favours sit in the middle, they record the swap without taxing the friendship.

New members can spend up to 20 favours before they need to either complete a job or attend a community event. It's a soft nudge to contribute first, take second.

A small founding team from BAME communities across South and East London, working with neighbourhood organisers, council partners and a 30–50 person pilot cohort. We build with people, not for them.

Pilot waves open through 2026. Join the list below and we'll let you know when your patch is live.

20 Favours waiting on sign-up

Be one of the first 50 in your patch.

Tell us your postcode, your skills and what kind of help you'd actually use. We'll open the doors as soon as your neighbourhood is ready.

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Help othersEarn Favours.Get what you need.

Money shouldn't be the only way we help each other.