A one days workshop on understanding and building resilience into your local economy.
Monday 5th July ~ 10am – 4pm
WildGoose Space, St Werburghs.
Sliding scale starting at £60, see www.shiftbristol.org.uk for details.

Course content:
• Public sector procurement activity
• Support for small businesses (e.g. local currencies/loyalty cards)
• Support for local financial infrastructure (e.g. working with credit unions/new investment vehicles)
• B2C currencies and how to introduce them (e.g. Brixton/Totnes pound)
• Social currencies (e.g. Timebanking) to support the economically excluded
• B2B schemes (e.g. commercial barter schemes)
• Digital currency models

Josh is a researcher working in the New Economics Foundation’s Business, Finance and Economics team where he is leading research on monetary reform and research into alternative and complementary currencies. Josh is also developing a programme of work on creating a more sustainable housing system in the UK and also on wider reforms to the financial system. He is a founding member of Transition Town Brixton’s Brixton Pound, the UK’s first urban local currency. http://www.neweconomics.org/about/josh-ryan-collins