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Time: 1 hours
Level: Intermediate
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 Introduction Resource- Local Exchange and Trading Schemes (LETS) expanded rapidly in the UK after the first scheme was set up in Norfolk in 1985. By 1996 LETSLINK UK, the coordinating body, reckoned that there were about 450...
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| | 1 LETS: A community development
- 1 LETS: A community development Resource
- You will shortly be listening to a sequence of audio clips, which focus on the use of LETS as a community development tool. Should LETS come ‘from above’ or ‘from the grassroots’?
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| | 2 Liz Shepherd and Jan Hurst | |
| | 3 Peter, Roger, Rachel, Jenny and Veera
- 3 Peter, Roger, Rachel, Jenny and Veera Resource
- Peter Jones, Roger Bunker, Rachel Bunker, Jenny Hurst and Veera Usher Muller
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- 4 Audio activity Resource
- Now listen to the audio clips. As you listen, make notes in your Learning Journal on:
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| | 5 Comment on the audio clips
- 5 Comment on the audio clips Resource
- The benefits mentioned in the clips included a skills outlet, developing organising and networking skills, improvements to the members' self-esteem, and better social contact than before. There were also...
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- 6 Limitations of LETS Resource
- Significant claims have been made about the benefits of LETS. For example, it is argued that LETS, by removing some goods and services from the cash economy, reduce the leakage of resources from poor localities...
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- 8 Perspectives Resource
- The LETSLINK UK (www.letslinkuk.org/) website provides information and news about LETS initiatives in the UK.
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