Local Currencies

FREE linkup to local community exchange groups worldwide.

Fair Shares is a Charitable Trust set up in January 1998 to explore the practical applications of using time as a currency to rebuild communities in the UK.

At least 40,000 people are involved in the UK’s 450 LETS schemes, most of them established according to the democratic and co-operative LETS model developed in Britain by LETSLINK UK during the 1990s.

LETS Forum is dedicated to free and low cost alternatives in an increasingly money orientated world, including Local Exchange Trading Schemes and other social inventions.

LETS in the South West of England.

In the Czech Republic the first LETS was established in autumn 1999 and nowadays there are several systems there.

LETS Vlaanderen vzw is het steunpunt van en voor LETS-groepen in Vlaanderen. LETS Vlaanderen is samengesteld uit LETS-leden, uit verschillende Vlaamse LETS-groepen. Samen willen zij binnen deze stichting ondersteuning bieden aan beginnende en bestaande LETS-groepen.

The open money project is a work in progress – a continuation of almost 20 years of LETSystem development all over the world, two community way projects in Canada using smart cards, the Japan open money project, and, most recently, a community currencies server program, cybercredits.

The mission of TimeBanks is to nurture and expand a movement that promotes equality and builds caring community economies through inclusive exchange of time and talent.

The aim of this journal is to provide a forum for the dissemination of knowledge and understanding about the emerging array of community currencies being used throughout the world both at present and in the past.