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In the Moneyless Manifesto by  Mark Boyle , I stumbled across ‘gift circles’ and we are going to give it a go at Riverside Festival on the 7th June 2014 at 3pm on the Bede Island by the Transition Leicester Marquee Gift circles are an organisational format to facilitate gift giving and promote community. For more info on its structure have a look here >  http://wiki.gifteconomy.org/Gift_Circle We need people who are happy to share contact details with one another. We are happy generally speaking for those who do not want to participate to the circle to listen and watch! Come directly on the Bede Island at the Transition Leicester and Green Light Marquee at 14:50 For more information, contact me directly on moneyleicester@gmail.com

The Leicester's Positive Money group is starting a reading group. Our first session will be the 6th of June 2014 at the Green Oasis from 6pm. We will start with reading the first 100 pages of ' Modernising Money ' by Andrew Jackson & Ben Dyson. We are at the moment seven individuals eager to understand better economics and to discuss some of the arguments introduced in the book. If you are interested in joining the reading group, email me directly on moneyleicester@gmail.com . If you don't have a book, I have 3 books left for sale sent by Positive Money to support the Leicester group (£10). Don't hesitate!

On Sunday 11th May, it was for us the moment of truth. We were running our money workshop which we have been working on in the past four months. We arrived in the room provided by the church, after few adjustments, hoovering and decorating with beautiful fabrics made by our dear Zina. We were ready. People one by one are arrived with food to share, smiling at the prospect of this day. We are in total 13 and ready to kick start. It is 11 am. The energy in the room is highly positive. We can feel it all around us. As we go through the exercise, we can sense some emotions. A plethora of possibilities to change our relationships with money, make our investments more ethical, achieve a more balanced life with less money or working fewer hours are explored. We are then confronted to our 'barriers to change', the 'should's' that we've learnt when we were younger to earn more money, to never get into debts, to take responsibilities for our choice and n