 What percent goes toward a Brixton Fund when a Brixton Pound is spent?
The founders of the Brixton Pound wanted to do something to stop 80p of every £1 spent locally from leaking out of the area into the pockets of corporations, at the expense of small local traders. So they printed a currency that would have the same value as the pound, but could only be traded in independent Brixton shops, where the shopkeeper would also have to spend it locally. But the Brixton Pound and other recent schemes follow the example ten years ago of the Totnes Pound, a 'complementary currency': that is, one supplementing the national currency. By June 2015, 1m £B had been issued, with £B700,000 of that still in circulation.
 1.5 percent
 2.0 percent  0.5 percent  1.0 percent  1.5 percent