Brixton Pound launching Thursday 17th September!
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Minnie_the_Minx
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Brixton Hatter
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You'll get them in change from any local businesses involved in the scheme (you could even ask for them in your change) or you can buy them tonight at the Town Hall from 7pm at a rate of £1 = £B1 and I understand you can also buy them from Morleys and from Opus cafe.How do I get the notes then?
BBC website said:
Brixton Hatter
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I cant imagine tesco would ever accept them in a million years. They're designed to stop Tesco taking money out of Brixton! Tesco can't put them in the bank so they're no use to them - unless they want to give them in change, which might be hard with a £B20 note. I guess the ultimate success would be for Tesco to use them to buy locally produced goods to sell in their stores, but that just isnt how they do business.
Brixton Hatter
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Let me Google that for you Kanda!
In fact, just look at this link: http://brixtonpound.wordpress.com/businesses/
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
My local takes the Brixton pound, yay! (The hobgoblin/Hootenanny)
ExtraRefined
Better than you at everything you love
Tesco can exchange them for Sterling like anyone else surely, and then put that in the bank?
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
All the bars seem to. Well at least in that area as Windmill, Mango and White Horse do too.
Onket
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What denominations can I get them in?
Kanda
Diving wanker
It tells you up there ^^
Onket
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Which post?
Kanda
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Minnie_the_Minx
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Onket
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63 you lazy fucker
Sorry, but Brixton Hatter said it was no hassle so I wasn't going to hassle myself.
This is going to cost me 36 quid I can't really afford.
Minnie_the_Minx
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Minnie_the_Minx
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I am waiting for the day when the BBC financial news quotes the Brixton Pound the Lewes Pound and the Totnes Pound against the Dollar and the Ecu.
Minnie_the_Minx
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Hah ha! Yeah, I'm sure 'the forgers' are just queuing up to replicate a note you can only use in a handful of shops in Brixton!
They'll probably be flogging them outside KFC
In Totnes and Lewes the advent of the local Pounds were part of a scheme called Transition Towns, aimed at promoting local enterprise. Does anyone know if Brixton will be part of the Transition Towns project?
A Brixton, une devise locale pour remplacer la livre sterling
Nice that the front page of www.lemonde.fr doesn't feel the need to explain where Brixton is
Nice that the front page of www.lemonde.fr doesn't feel the need to explain where Brixton is
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It isn't something that particularly interests me personally - but apparently Brixton is already a Transition Town, according to this website: http://www.site.transitiontownbrixton.org/
Minnie_the_Minx
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I'm prepared to keep an open mind on this and see how it goes.
Shouldn't the B£ be compared to a 'LETS' (exchange of services) scheme rather than other currencies? As I understand it it will circulate within Brixton and be exchanged for Brixton made or sold services, and buyin it is just ike saying 'I pledge to support cmall local businesses, and my investment will provide a small amount of basic assured income from which the business can thrive and grow'. Surely the whole point is that Tesco etc will not, and must not take it - that the investment stays within the local independent sector, and therefore helps defend it against multi-nationals?
I am a bit perplexed by the idea that 'it's great, we've go it, just like Lewes has' because the last I saw in the Guardian, the Lewes£ was floundering and failing and the interest had not been sustained at all. Which gives the lie to the fact that it's suitable for small twee cuntry towns.
If I was a shopowner, I think would rather be paid in sterling than B£, because it would give me more flexibility, but faced with a shopper with a fistful of B£s I'd rather accept them, than see him/her disppear off to tesco to spend real £ from the organic shelves. What do shop owners have to lose from the scheme? (unless ALL their income was in B£ - but maybe it can be traded in at the Morleys exchang?)
Shouldn't the B£ be compared to a 'LETS' (exchange of services) scheme rather than other currencies? As I understand it it will circulate within Brixton and be exchanged for Brixton made or sold services, and buyin it is just ike saying 'I pledge to support cmall local businesses, and my investment will provide a small amount of basic assured income from which the business can thrive and grow'. Surely the whole point is that Tesco etc will not, and must not take it - that the investment stays within the local independent sector, and therefore helps defend it against multi-nationals?
I am a bit perplexed by the idea that 'it's great, we've go it, just like Lewes has' because the last I saw in the Guardian, the Lewes£ was floundering and failing and the interest had not been sustained at all. Which gives the lie to the fact that it's suitable for small twee cuntry towns.
If I was a shopowner, I think would rather be paid in sterling than B£, because it would give me more flexibility, but faced with a shopper with a fistful of B£s I'd rather accept them, than see him/her disppear off to tesco to spend real £ from the organic shelves. What do shop owners have to lose from the scheme? (unless ALL their income was in B£ - but maybe it can be traded in at the Morleys exchang?)
Thanks Minnie
Now that it is clear that Brixton is becoming or has become a Transition Town, there is more to think about than just the currency. The whole idea is to make a transition away from dependency on oil and to create local environments that have alternative energy sources and food that is not dependent on oil based fertilizers. Better get digging folks, and get that wind generator up. Totnes being situated in the rural South Hams of Devon has a bit of an advantage there though.
Now that it is clear that Brixton is becoming or has become a Transition Town, there is more to think about than just the currency. The whole idea is to make a transition away from dependency on oil and to create local environments that have alternative energy sources and food that is not dependent on oil based fertilizers. Better get digging folks, and get that wind generator up. Totnes being situated in the rural South Hams of Devon has a bit of an advantage there though.
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