London-wide LETS: News & Events

News and Events

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Networking Event: Saturday 13th June 2009
from 11am onwards
- for everyone involved in or interested in joining LETS in London

LETS are Local Exchange Trading Schemes - mutual support networks in which people trade goods and services using community credits, either "hours" or a named currency in parallel to sterling. In London we have a number of independent local groups, as well as a city-wide network, which enables groups to connect with each other and to find new members. We are still in the early stages of exploring the potential of new online systems, and this is an opportunity to share organisational and technical knowledge, and meet up with other LETS enthusiasts to form new alliances.

DRAFT PROGRAMME
11am: Registration, coffee, and informal networking
12noon: Presentation on systems and organisation for LETS in London, including local groups
1pm: Lunch - please bring food to share
2pm: Lets play LETS- a networking game
3pm: Circle time - individual presentations and feedback
4pm: Afternoon tea and informal networking with Open Space and online individual sessions - please bring a laptop
5pm: Forum, feedback, elections, and forward planning for LETS in London
6pm: Entertainments from the floor featuring artists from "Refugees and the Arts"

The above agenda is flexible and subject to change according to presentations offered. Membership of London-wide LETS is by exchange - please bring cheques/cash. Also bring craft items to sell, and leaflets about activities you offer on the scheme, or about your local group. Stallholders are invited to share income by negotiation with the organisers.
Entrance FREE: you may set up an account for £10 before or at the meeting.

Venue: University of London Union, (ULU), Street, London WC1E 7HY - nearest tubes: Russell Square, Euston, Warren Street, Goodge Street - see MAP
Contact : london@letslink.org
For London-wide LETS (information and join): london.letslink.org
To find LETS groups in London click on the map: www.letslinklondon.org.uk
This event is part of Love London’s green festival: www.lovelondon.org.uk

PDF version of this flyer • Word version of this flyer

Last year's launch

Our LAUNCH EVENT, on Saturday 14th June 2008, is one of only six events to have received a grant of £500.
This will enable us to contact all those who wanted to join London-wide LETS, but whom we could not accommodate, because we were not yet able to run it as a web-based system. Now that we have the technology, we are confident we can develop a really effective scheme. Pictured here is Robert from Love London, posing with Mary, who is pleased that the importance of our project has been acknowledged not only by the London Sustainability Trust but by the director, Joseph Tenzin Oliver, of a young, entrepreneurial company, Bash Creations, who donated and presented the award. At the event, we will invite everyone to meet up, see how it works, and open an account. . . . watch this space for updates . . .

When this page gets too full, we will archive minutes of meetings to the minutes page - see also brixton.
For other LETS-friendly events, see also LLL Groups Calendar and LLUK Calendar