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BourneCoin: Eastbourne, UK joins neighbors in issuing Community Currency
BourneCoin began as an experiment, when a tiny group of Eastbourne residents decided to create a town money. The idea was to stimulate the local economy and encourage wealth to stay in the area.
“A flagship workshop with designers and users in the Towner Art Gallery reflected and celebrated the birth of something new in town: a local currency with the potential to facilitate all sorts of formerly hidden and isolated activities in the community.”
The project aims to create a local community currency in Eastbourne and surrounding areas, stretching to Brighton, Uckfield, Lewes, and Hastings. Organisers say it will be in digital form and in printed notes, and being a local platform, they argue it will allow people to ‘take back control’ of their data.
Eastbourne will join Bristol, Hull, Brixton and many other UK community / complementary currencies.
https://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/news/eastbourne-community-currency-to-go-live-1-8453026
https://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/news/eastbourne-community-currency-to-go-live-1-8453026