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The community finance canvas
The community finance canvas helps you produce a financial plan to bring your design for a resilient community into being. This approach has been developed by a group within Transition Sweden, through a process of trial and error. Thanks to Steve Hinton for sharing this...
Economic Evaluation – evaluate the potential of your new economy
An Economic Evaluation activity estimates the potential value of key parts of your new local economy. Forecasting how much revenue and how many jobs your potential re-localised food sector might produce, for example, is valuable information. This can help you get the attention of key...
Alternative means of exchange
This page is a guide to alternatives to money and markets as conventionally understood. It will look at new forms of money that a community can create for itself, and at the ‘gift economy’ where ongoing relationships enable people to exchange without using money at...
The gift economy and community exchanges
You have probably invited people over for a meal and been invited to meals in return, may have given and received children’s clothing with friends and acquaintances, given and received favours from other people. These are simple examples of the gift economy. In this...
Totnes Local Economic Blueprint – first reports now available
I’m delighted to say that the outputs of this project are ready for sharing. This post is about the work in Totnes, which started in 2011. It’s a combined effort of the national REconomy Project, along with Transition Town Totnes (TTT). Outputs from Hereford will...
Business and livelihoods groups
A number of Transition Initiatives or TIs have a group that focuses on businesses, jobs and the economy. These groups are taking on a range of strategic and practical projects, and generally form a natural home for much of the REconomy activity. Having a strong...
Investment – show me the money
Most entrepreneurs and new enterprises will need an injection of cash at some stage. This might be seed money of just a few thousand pounds, funding to cover start-up costs like buying some office equipment or much larger investment to cover the cost of, for...
Building relationships with businesses and organisations
Building sustainability and resilience into your local economy requires, among other things, good collaborative relationships with the local business community. Creating shared goals will accelerate results. This point is obvious and, at first glance, should pose no great challenge. After all, we’re all part of...
Setting up a mentoring scheme
One of the challenges of being an entrepreneur is that you are somehow expected to be an instant expert in all aspects of business. It’s not enough to have a great idea, you also need to know about business planning, accounting, marketing, HR issues, tax,...
Starting an Energy Services Enterprise
A Local United pack that provides information and support for community household energy advisors, and the development of a local supply chain for energy services. Local United is building a virtual organisation to set up and promote trusted systems for the rapid development...
