Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) are a way of trading skills, services and goods without using conventional money. They are like a sophisticated form of barter.
Under the LETSystem you could, for example, have help with your computer from one member, then repay the favour by cutting someone else’s grass. No direct swap is necessary.
The LETSystem offers free credit! It has to. Our little economy grows according to how much work we buy from each other, rather than how much we consume.
The wealth created by trading within the local community stays within the community. There is no need to worry about Treasury policies, sinking pounds, interest rates or overdrafts.