 Who came up with the Stroud Pound?
Everyone has gathered to decide what a Glasgow Pound might look like at a time when many are asking if local currencies can work at all. 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. She knows all about it as a founder of the Stroud Pound in 2010, a currency that has since gone out of circulation. In Stroud, suspicion of the local currency among local businesses became a barrier to success.
 Molly Scott Cato
 Ciaran Mundy  Duncan McCann  Stephen Clarke  Molly Scott Cato