This is a blog for you if

This is blog is for you if you are serving families, mother, father, children in Leicestershire to
- To take care of what we have in common: The planet
- To encourage them to be open and inclusive of others
- To support them in sharing their gifts for the local economy to be more resilient.

If you tick more than one of this boxes, i am inviting you
- To Get inspired by the stories of people who are in Leicestershire trying to enact change and empowered people to direct their lives
- To share those stories to people around you so they can get inspired
- To submit your story.

Why? Because the power of stories can change the world as long as they are shared widely.

So get sharing!

About me

My name is Marie. I live in Leicestershire since 2012. In my first year of arrival, i engaged with Transition Leicester, Positive Money and Footpaths Leicester. I ran the positive money leicester group.  I organised events, a discussion group and the Money workshop to help people reflect upon their relationship with money. I also train as a facilitator to run a Footpaths group to support group and families to reduce their carbon footprint. End of 2014, Zina Zelter from Footpaths and I, we decided to run a year of events culmutating into a day of festival: The Green Festival of Making and Mending. From the festival, Leicester Fixers emerged and has been running Restart Parties since May 2015. In 2018, The project received a grant from Leicestershire County Council to help set up 6 repair communities across Leicestershire. It is currently the main project I am working on.

Apart from those projects, I work and study. I freelance for The Crop Club a social enterprise which supports people to grow food. I have a certificate in Permaculture and teaches from time to time at the Permaculture course in Leicester. I am also a doctorate from Loughborough Design School. My thesis is on the factors influencing user repair propensity. I support students with their work.

Outside of it all, i am a keen dancer (salsa), a beginner violonist, i draw with wax crayons and garden. I live with my husband, embrace our mixed heritage and spend lot of time with our family.

in facilitating a Footpaths Leicester grouprun projects to engage family's members with different communities of knowledge and this mainly through events.

The blog provide an account of the progress of some of the projects and how you can get involved and it features different initiatives in Leicestershire that engage the public on enbironmental and social

How to stop worrying about Money

One of the best ways to stop worrying about money is first understanding exactly what it is and for this, I would advise anyone to actually watch Positive Money videos on Youtube on how money is created and what it actually is.
To learn even more about it you can read their book :

Modernising Money: Why Our Monetary System is Broken and How it Can be Fixed

From there, the question you have to ask yourself is what are the strategies I can possibly implement to ensure that money issues do not impact on mental health. If you feel that you are struggling financially and that the issue of money is taking a toll on you, please refer to a GP or a counsellor to help you, talk to your friend and family, keep a diary. Ultimately, you have to find a way to make the issue of money not causing further issues in your being.

I wish you good luck with this. It is only the beginning of the journey to realise that you and everything around you have intrinsic value and it is down to you to recognise it.

People & Money : A Workshop about Money

I have been involved with Positive Money since my master thesis where my focus was at the time on ''What are the Design skills for the transition towards the Circular Economy?''.

Whilst interviewing the various stakeholders during the thesis, one was particularly keen on discussing economics, how money works,  how people are blinded by its meaning?

How did I come from discussing design to having a long discussion about money?

Well, it appears that the creation of money and the way it is applied to motivate people to stay on the treadmill seems to be like water nourishing poor design and systemic issues at its roots.

It cannot be ignored.

After the master thesis, I studied money, how is created and how it impacts people wellbeing.

I ran a number of workshops in Leicester to raise awareness.

The Leicester Positive Money Group emerged and as of today still, exists.

Yet, we have an idea.

Let's start again to share the word.

My friend, Danielle Teixeira and I have designed a two hours workshop on Money - what is money, how it is created - what actions you can take to be run in Leicestershire for both classes of teens and group of adults. We are only at the initiation stage of our project where we want to get some feedback from people on whether they want to take part or not.

Do you want to take part or have it run in your community? Click here to let us know or Join the Positive Money Leicestershire discussion here

An Evening with Leicester Positive Money

Once in while Positive Money Leicester meet up. It was long time. It finally happened.

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A year ago, we had our first Positive Money Leicester event - People & Money -with a panel of individuals sharing with us the impact of money creation on society, the impact of policy making on the livelihood of individuals, the impact of corruption and tax havens , the law and meaning of money.

Six month ago, we had a workshop on the Ethics of Money exploring the relationship with money and a lot of tips on how to live with less of it and enjoying life more.

A month earlier, Money Creation and its impact on society was debated in the House of Commons. Conservative, Labour, Greens, UKIP etc. question the impact of money creation by private entities on society. It was like Christmas in the middle of November for me. all at the results of the immense efforts of social activators throughout the UK interested in Money issues.

Two weeks ago, I have sent an email with excitement to all Leicester Members to have a coffee in Green Oasis to cheer for the debate and discuss what next

Thursday, Yesterday, was the day of our meeting

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Discussion topic of the evening

Art, Advertising, Politics and Activism

To which extent the political role of art has been diluted was one the question we asked ourselves?

Various perspectives were given to the subject without any academics references but who said that citizens could not be philosopher without a Ph.D. One argued that the attractiveness to art degree produced a tremendous amount of artists who were looking a lot like one another. At the end of their studies, many ended up in advertising and marketing agencies using their talents and ideas at the profit of others. Whilst art lost its credentials as a powerful force to contradict status quo, advertising became almost better than art supporting the vested interests of large corporations. It could be a possibility. I do not know. Others suggested that whilst art disappeared, activists and campaigning groups were not using effectively and efficiently advertising tools. They even say that the impact of communication campaign is not effective. Face-to-Face interaction to build community has more impact. It could be true. Further was added, the saddest things is that large corporations to find their gap on the market do large semiotic analysis to understand how they can compete against their competitors but also understand the deep-seated value important for their consumers. How could they have the full picture when all community groups and other social activist do not communicate through images? It is a question. To which extent community groups are dismissed by large corporations in the marketing analysis? To which extent corporations are blindfolded by what is happen in the other  reality?

For those living in the midlands, there will be interesting series on art and politics at Loughborough University. Check it out

Role of Comedians and Poet and Politics

In France, Moliere used to write satire to mock the ruling power, king queen churches doctors etc.

Coluche, founder of the Resto du Coeur and great comedian also challenged status quo. He even run for presidency.

In England, there is Russell Brand with his Trews and probably many others who use humour to take us beyond the boundaries we have ourselves created.

Semantics, Money Creation, Banks and Society

The question is:

What is the difference between lending a customer money and a customer depositing money to the bank?

Answer:

None

Why

When the bank lend money to a customer, the bank deposity money into the customer account.

When the customer deposit money into the bank account, the customer lend money to the bank.

'The 'Account' is only an interface helping the circulation of money in a system. creating both asset and liabilities equal to each other on the balance sheet. 

By creating liability on one side, asset are created on the other side >> Money is created

By reimbursing liability on one side, asset are destroyed on the other side>> Money is destroyed

Simple accounting.

The way we use words and the meaning we attribute to them has to be closely scrutinise. Our compliance was suggested to be at a result of the social conventions associated with those words that we have learnt. The collective knowledge of those conventions is so ingrained that we cannot even recognise when two things are the same thing.

House of Commons, Positive Money, Debate Money Creation and Impact on Society

This year is a special year. Between The Bank of England confirming that Money is being created through loans made by private banks and the debate brought in the house of commons after more than an 100 years on the impact of money creation on society (Watch the video). It is incredibly exciting. It will get the ball rolling for academics, researchers, policy makers, financial analysts, businesses, homeowners who have big mortgages to question the situation we are in.

Since money is not backed up by gold standard (Collapse of Bretton Woods). Money is a currency which loses value every instant. Watch the video Rich Dad Poor Dad, he will tell you all about it if you do not want to get in too much economic jargon with the positive money book. Nevertheless, whilst money lost its credentials, promises to pay (back loan) did not change in nature at all as much as deeds from the bank. Ultimately considering the large inflation in prices for houses, anyone can wonder where the money is coming from and secondly the validity of a promise to pay back a loan. Why would you pay a loan back if the money is created out thin air?

And More...

Law, Health and Safety, Poverty, Science, Religion, Terrorism, Spirituality were covered over the evening.

Shake yourself out from the poor collective knowledge we have of economics and learn some more!

For more information about the money system please visit Positive Money website, read the book, set up a reading group, read some more, share it with your friends and if you are in Leicester, drop me an email. 

We have informal discussion with members of Positive Money Leicester time to time. 

We meet at the Green Oasis on London Road, a little philosophical paradise in the midst of the city.

Drop your comments!

Sorting finances

More than a year ago, the Spreadsheet Geek (here) had asked to analyse finances and sort them out.
Between income statement, cashflows and budgetting, numbers were flowing in every directions.
The task was over and I felt rich, content and free. Since then, states of affair are reviewed from time to time and outgoings controlled.
None is spend on futility. Time at hand seem infinite. Debts are disappearing
More is spend to create and contemplate how beautiful the now is.
Next steps, shift to cash payments only and no more temptation to dip in the digital money.

What about you?
Have you thought about looking more in details at your finances?
What stop you to open the pandora box of your bank statements?
What is your vision of the future in relation to your finances?
What are your next steps?
I am curious to hear more, do not hesitate to comment this post.

Retiring early or not?

My dear colleague, 60, is retiring this Christmas. In his own words 'It is the end of my working life and I shall now spend more time with friends and family.

This couple retired at the age of 30 after investing a considerable amount of money in private pension,
giving them sufficient return to sustain themselves for next x years. They can now focus on the projects they want to work on rather than working for any corporation as an employee.

He is 75 and would not stop creating and innovating. Retiring is out of the question. It keeps him young at heart and sharp in his thoughts.

'Should you retire early or not?'is not the right question to ask
The question should be 'Why retiring?'

Retiring is not dissimilar to quitting when it is chosen or getting fired when it is imposed.

Better quitting early to follow dreams of a lifetime... better not retiring when you are already living the dream...

Designers of Money Futures - Permaculture

The latest Permaculture session I had was 'Money Futures'.

We discussed the reasons why we need Money, the impact of money on the global and living world.
Questions were asked about the other alternatives of money and whether we could do without it.

It became clear that the discussion was a difficult one to have as we recognise our needs to belong.
We recognise our needs to improve our surroundings.
We recognise how much unskilled and clueless we were.
We recognise the power of money in making our wishes reality by filling the gap of our own inabilities.

Human relationship is probably the most expensive commodity. It forces some to enter the rat-race for happiness and belonging.

It is an unfortunate conclusion. Luckily enough, it is not the end of the story. There are many alternatives to money and the gift economy is actually in scale a lot more prominent that people might think. It is not promoted on television but for sure it exists. Join a voluntary group, knock on your neighbour's door, use freecycle and streetbank, define the community you want to be part of and let go of the rest. A system cannot be changed, another one need to emerge to replace it. Let's be the designers of our destiny!

Keynes vs Minsky

I am truly a beginner in economics. By reading Positive Money book 'Modernising Money' by Ben Dyson and Andrew Jackson, my eyes and brain are getting wide open to new possibilities. My interest grew in the work of Minsky and encouraged me to read more about Keynes.

Keynes economics promote the view that in the long run economics system converge into an equilibrium with the support of the government. Nevertheless you cannot help the role of banks in the system and wonder after reading the following quote:

“But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.” (Keynes, 1923)

This implied that economists did not comprehend why we had a financial crisis and collapse. Minsky with  his model 'Financial Instability Hypothesis' strive to answer this question. The idea in Minsky's work in a 'simplistic summary is that in very good environments economic decision will be made with an overconfidence of financial stability. Ultimately it motivate excess leverage that advance farther than a stable economy' (Coates, 2009)

We could summarize the whole in three words 

'STABILITY IS DESTABILISING'

Some links:

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-06-02/adam-smith-vs-keynes-and-minsky

http://relevantfp.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/keynes-vs-minsky-financial-instability.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-dismal-state-of-economic-theory-and-the-opportunity-for-a-new-beginning-2010-9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_Minsky

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26680993

I will be grateful if you would comment this post and give me some indications on other good sources of information I could read on. Thank you!

Want to understand better how money works?

With the housing bubble tamed down by the bank of England, the latest bulletin confirming that the bank are creating money out of thin air and the psychological effect debt has on reducing feelings of empathy amongst human kinds, here are a number of resources if you want to learn more about the money system:

Videos

The Positive Money Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/PositiveMoneyUK
A Crash Course :http://www.peakprosperity.com/crashcourse

With the part more concerned with money starting here: http://www.peakprosperity.com/crashcourse/chapter-6-what-money
Money as Debt : http://www.rinf.tv/video/money-debt

A Century of Challenges : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJKZT5TNjYw 

Sacred Economics :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEZkQv25uEs

Keiser report with David Graeber : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T17h6tNzoM

Books:

Modernising Money - Andrew Jackson and Ben Dyson

5000 years of debt - David Graeber

Website

http://streetschooleconomics.wordpress.com/

www.positivemoney.org

The list is not exhaustive. If you know other links to follow, please leave your comments below.

Finding a partner in the making

I love working on projects. I love working with others.

When I started to be a volunteer coordinator for Positive Money in Leicester, I wanted to find a partner to create some events on the theme of money. This person had to be reliable, trustworthy and hard working. 

I did not find the person through the various meetings and events which I organised or participated in. The individuals I have met were not there to collaborate in the way I wanted. They were looking to gain other social benefits.

Eventually, one person revealed herself to be the right partner whilst I was volunteering to support her own scheme: Footpaths, a carbon footprint reduction community-based programme. I run some sessions with her as a co-facilitator. Through our preparation meetings, I shared my vision for Positive Money in Leicester and our two worlds merged.

Since then, we are partners. Others got inspired and joined us to develop a taster and full day workshop on Money. After the taster workshop, a reading group emerged. After the full-day workshop, other volunteering organisations got interested in having the money workshop run for them. We are now in the process of editing the workshop to share facilitation notes to every participants of footpaths. They will be able to run sessions on the theme of money with their group members.

As I will be stepping down from Positive Money as a volunteer co-ordinator to focus fully on freeskilling, repairing and making, my partner in crime and I are already thinking of organising a festival which is rather exciting.

A partner is more likely to be found in the making and sharing. You have to be willing to give in order to receive something back. You have to be focus on what you are trying to achieve but also flexible in the way you are going to get there. Someone along the way will join you, ensure to be open to opportunities when this person comes along.

Do you need to be an expert to talk about money?

Debates tend to bring together expert researchers and politicians arguing on the steps forward for the future of humanity. Experts have always good arguments and counter-attack to keep the discussion going and confuse us in the midst of details and jargon. But us, lambda individuals, what can we possibly do?

Learn and share

Ian Tennant from Positive Money Uk explained today at the Leicester secular society how money is created by commercial banks and the consequences this have on the rest of the economy and our state of democracy.

Did you know that 3% of the money available is cash (coins and notes) and 97% is money created by commercial banks?

Did you know that between 1970 and 2012 the money supply increased from £25 billion to £2050 billion?

What shocked me was the idea that a non elected body (commercial banks 80 board members) decide how the 2.9 trillion created by them will be spent. The government has 650 parliamentaries and 2.1 trillions to allocate. Isn't there a more ethical way of doing it?

The bank of England this year acknowledged the creation of money by commercial banks. It confirms furthermore the need for our debtocracy to be changed.

More need to be done and it is our role as citizens to put pressure on our government for change!

In the meantime, reading 'Modernising Money' by Andrew Jackson and Ben Dyson give a good graps on how the money system works. Organising talks and debates keep the ball rolling. Finally, writing to our MPs to put get those questions debated. We do not need to be expert to do those things: just read, speak and write.

Once the debate starts, the experts can be present to develop and put in place a better system with the consciousness that we are watching them.

I am pleased that positive money is a strong voice encouraging individuals to look more into those issues. The majority of followers are no experts but only care.

What's on this weekend in Leicester?

If you are looking for some alternative events to join, this is what is happening in Leicester

Footpaths : Green Open Homes and Living on the 14th and 15th of June.
9 houses in Leicester are opening their homes for visit. For  those interested in learning more about energy efficient measures, renewables and more, give it a go. Click on the link above to find out more

LessBig - Building an Earth Oven at Saffron acres on Saturday 14th from 10.30am to 5pm - Click on the link for more information

Positive Money - Ian Tennant talks about how to stop banks are ruining the show at Leicester secular society on Sunday 15th at 6.30 start. For more info on the event > click here

Et Voila

Highlight of my day - Most public debts illegitimate

It was rightly so the highlight of my day.
9:16 - I opened my guardian app on my way to work. Scroll down to get to the comments section and here it is:

 'The French are right: tear up public debt - most of it is illegitimate anyway' by Razmig Keucheyan.

I am rightly french and highly involved with Positive Money. We have a group in Leicester that you are welcome to join if you are interested send us an email by clicking here

Thinking that 60% of public debt is most likely to be illegitimate and it is not even possible to name the debt holders makes me wonder why we are in such a state of austerity. Is it only there to favour our social elites? I am voting for a debt jubilee, right there!

Let's hope we can follow the steps suggested in the article:

1) Debt audits in all countries

2) The disclosure of the identity of debt holders

3) The socialisation of the banking system

 To understand those various steps and get more info on the research, check the article out!

Keynes vs Minsky

I am a beginner in economics but reading Positive Money book 'Modernising Money' by Ben Dyson and Andrew Jackson. My interest grew in the work of Minsky and encouraged me to read more about Keynes.

Keynes economics promote the view that in the long run economics system converge into an equilibrium with the support of the government. Nevertheless you cannot help the role of banks in the system and wonder after reading the following quote:

“But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.” (Keynes, 1923)

This imply that economists did not comprehend why we had a financial crisis and collapse. Minsky with  his model 'Financial Instability Hypothesis' strive to answer this question. The idea in Minsky's work in a 'simplistic summary is that in very good environments economic decision will be made with an overconfidence of financial stability. Ultimately it motivate excess leverage that advance farther than a stable economy' (Coates, 2009)

We could summarize the whole in three words 

'STABILITY IS DESTABILISING'

Some links:

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-06-02/adam-smith-vs-keynes-and-minsky

http://relevantfp.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/keynes-vs-minsky-financial-instability.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-dismal-state-of-economic-theory-and-the-opportunity-for-a-new-beginning-2010-9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_Minsky

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26680993

The Moneyless Manifesto by Mark Boyle - Review

I have recently read, Mark Boyle's Moneyless Manifesto. It resonated with me in many ways. He highlights the extent to which we are disconnected from the system which support out lives as we strive through and around the lenses of money. During my master thesis with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation at Cranfield University, those who I interviewed highlighted this issue as the main challenge to achieve a truly sustainable system. Individuals, businesses, politicians and educators are all slow down in their innovation pathways by the money paragdim.

But the question remain can we really live without Money? Mark Boyle did it over three years. Throughout the book, he offers advices and personal experiences to support the idea that it is possible to do without. Other authors, researchers, practitioners in their own field offer guidance on how to implement some solutions for a moneyless living.

Sometimes, his own experience such as successful healing from an infection using plants made me slightly skeptical. I recognised that my reaction was based on fear by asking myself question starting with 'What if'. 'what if I don't have money and get very ill?' 'what if the plants I used are poisonous' what if? what if? what if?' 

I also accepted that I do not know much about the healing abilities of plant and promised myself to get to know them better. 

Gift Circle on the 7th June 2014 at 3pm Riverside Festival 

But there are three things that I will do:

First organising a 'gift circle' (On the 7th of June 14). Getting people together is my forte and I really like the idea of giving out of generosity. 

Secondly, using 'MoonCup' because with standard hygienic pads, I pollute every month, with the MoonCup I won't!. 

Finally, why not organising a festival...'a festival of making' in Leicester in 2015 (I'll keep you posted)!

Gift circle at the Riverside Festival on 7th June 2014 3pm

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

Reading group starting in June: Modernising Money

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!

Money Workshop - Aftermath

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 not asking others for help and we set ourselves some actions to change our mindsets and get the power back over our lives.

At the end of the workshop, an evaluation form was distributed to find out the extent to which individuals were committed to change aspects of their life and how the workshop contributed positively in encouraging them to take further steps. Having analysed the results, we were pleased to see the workshop had a positive impacts on participants as they indicated to be more committed after having the workshop to be closer to their community by being both 'borrower' and lender, get an ethical insurance and telephone provider as such.

It was a beautiful experience. We hope to repeat such workshop as our participants seem to have benefited from it.

if you would like more info on the workshop, Positive Money UK, Footpaths or signing up for a workshop in the future please email footpaths@transitionleicester.org.uk or moneyleicester@gmail.com.

Money : Impacts, perceptions & Actions - Greenlight Festival aftermath

The Greenlight Festival on the 22nd of April in Leicester took place in De Montfort University. It is organised by a team of passionate volunteers and showcased the best of all things green in Leicester... through talks, workshops, performance, kids'activities and a whole lot more. 

Positive Money, Footpaths and Transition Leicester were present. We've run a taster workshop on Money. It was an opportunity for people to get a taste of our One Day workshop to be run on Sunday 11th May in Leicester but mainly to kickstart the discussion about our relationship with financial issues. 

We had in total 19 people participating to the workshop. 

Money is definitely a topic worth talking about particularly in our time of austerity and environmental degradation. We were really pleased to welcome so many people all together.

The value in exploring the question on the impacts money has on the world and our own personal development is high. Ultimately, money management is about making the financial decisions which are in line with our values and beliefs.

For me who really care about the environment, understanding how money is created and banks are investing my money in x projects is prime. Without a discussion with others, research and a feel of the implications involved with my financial investment, I can easily contradict myself within my choices.

From the taster workshop, it was clear that individuals were at different stages in this exploration. Whilst some had a great knowledge about economics, finance and banking, others were still in this discovery stage. It was great to witness people feelings about those questions but we also understood that the topic is difficult to tackle for some.

There are many things that we do not understand clearly and do not know. For example, how money is created, what is the best banks to be with, what actions can be done to change the economic system, what actions can be done to get more from financial and non-financial goods?

Those questions are worth asking and one hour taster session were definitely not enough to cover those concerns. In this regard, I cannot wait to be present for the full day session.

On Sunday 11th May, we hope to be able to provide more guidance and help participants in finding solutions to their particular problems through discussion and knowledge sharing.

So Come along and let's get stuck in!

To book or for more information, contact Footpaths on 0116 2899 074 or footpaths@transitionleicester.org.uk

To check the content of the workshop > check the following blogpost > click

Money: Impacts, Perceptions & Actions - Workshop

Enjoying a magnificent journey with Footpaths, Positive Money and Transition Leicester, relationships are flourishing and inspired we are to help others to explore their relationship with Money and the rest of the world. It has been a fabolous experience to design the workshop. it is now time to share it with the world. Hope you will come numerous.

Money: 

Impacts, Perceptions & Actions

A one hour taster session & one day workshop

run by Footpaths and Positive Money Leicester

One hour taster session:

Greenlight Festival 22^nd March, 2-3pm, Queens building, De Montfort University.

This is free. Advanced booking is recommended but not essential.

One day workshop:

Sunday 11^th May, 11am-4pm, Bishop Street, Leicester

Please book early for this as places are limited.

Suggested donation: £5 (low income) £10 (comfortable income) £15 if you feel like it.

To book or for more information, contact Footpaths on

0116 2899 074

  

Money: Impacts, Perceptions & Actions:

The taster session and workshop will focus on:

what we do with our money,

what effects it has,

why we do it,

how we can change what we do.

We will be exploring questions including:

·        What impacts does our money have on the world?

Including the positive such as funding climate change solutions, as well as the negative such as wars and inequality.

·        What could we do about it?

From switching banks to income pooling, there are many possibilities to explore.

·        How do our backgrounds and histories affect our relationship to money?

Through sharing stories about what our lives have taught us about money we can become more aware of its impacts on us and the world.

·        What does money represent to us?

From love to power, how does this change what we do with it?

To book or for more information, contact Footpaths on

0116 2899 074