Hello to all Health Practitioners in South East Health
I'm writing to inform you of an innovative trading system that I have joined which will assist your business to grow and strengthen community capacity for holistic health within the South East of NSW.
The Bega Valley LETS (Local Exchange Trading System) is a member of the international Community Exchange System (CES) www.community-exchange.org
Community Exchange System (CES) is a community-based, global trading network using a money other than our familiar national ones — an alternative, parallel, local, community or complementary currency system. In short, the CES is a new money system.
There are many similar trading systems around the world, commonly know as Community Exchange Systems, Local Exchange and Trading Systems (LETS), Mutual Credit trading systems or Time Banks.
The main difference between these and conventional money systems is that the scope of the money is usually restricted to a geographical area or organisation. Money in the above types of complementary currencies does not ‘exist’ like conventional money so there is no need for a supply of it and you don’t need any to start trading. Money in these systems is a retrospective ‘score-keeping’ that keeps a record of who did what for whom and who sold what to whom. There can therefore never be a shortage of money and money does not have to be created by a third party (banks or government) outside the circuit of buyers and sellers. For this reason money and credit are free, for the buyers and sellers 'create' it at the moment of trade.
To view The Bega Valley LETS website click on the link http://thebegavalley.org.au/bvlets.html
Bega Valley LETS will be an integral strategy in the South East Transition Towns movement www.transitiontown.org.au
Be a pioneer and demonstrate leadership in your health discipline and join Bega Valley LETS today
Yours in Innovative Healthcare
Leah Wilkinson
B. Soc. Sci (Psy), R.N., R.M., Diploma Child & Family Health (Karitane), Nurse Practitioner Sexual & Reproductive Health, Graduate Certificate Women's Health Nursing & Diploma Therapeutic Massage.
