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BrisLETS Vision Statement
The BrisLETS Community Exchange Incorporated Association facilitates increasing members’ quality of life and material circumstances, through trading their life experience, goods, and services, to meet other members’ needs.
We aim to create a safe, inclusive, and diverse community of individuals, businesses, and groups, using the Australian Community Exchange Server, and units, as an alternative currency to dollars.
PRINCIPLES
- Everyone of all abilities, in all seasons of life, can contribute to society, using LETS.
- Community is more important than commerce.
- BrisLETS builds community by fostering shared values and processes.
- LETS units enable people to trade goods and services for mutual benefit, without the artificial constraints of national currencies.
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Our new mobile-friendly browser makes it faster and easier to enter trades and to join.
Click here: https://mobi.communityexchange.net.au or https://m.communityexchange.net.au
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Our new Facebook page is called Brislets Community Exchange Inc.
The private group is Brislets Members Forum Brislets Members Forum where members can raise and discuss issues in private.
The public group is BrisLETS Trading – Offers & Wants
Our Next Event
September Trading Day 1-4pm and adjourned AGM 2pm will be on 3rd Sunday 18th September 2022.
The Carindale Library in the Carindale Shopping Centre off Creek Road is a lovely venue for trading and holding the AGM - again we will be in person and on zoom. The nominations for President, secretary, and committee members are required to be with the Secretary by...
October Trading Day at the Albion Peace Hall, 3rd Sunday of the month 16th October 2022 1-4pm
We are in Spring with Xmas not far away. Talking to other traders about what you could do to trade - I love this concept: "Rather than obsessing on “what’s in it for me?” you ask, “what’s in it for them?” You start the relationship by helping the other person better...
News – Featured Articles
Lovely Bogi Fair Stall
It was great to speak to the wide range of people of various ages about LETS and know there is alot of interest out there!
August Trading Day and AGM
A big thank you to everyone who made the AGM in person or on zoom, especially outgoing President Jeni - a true inspiration to us all! We welcome Kelly back as treasurer, and Andrew as a comittee member. The AGM was adjourned to the September Trading day as there we no...
Scarborough July Trading Day
Everybody seemed to really enjoy themselves – I think about five members came – Helen and Elizabeth from Kenmore, Jessica from Morayfield, Kelly from Deception Bay, and Michelle from Woody Point. (I hope I haven't missed some) and four of my friends. Yes it was really...
Great discussion at June Trading Day
Big thank you to all who came to the June Trading Day! Rosie and Jessica are setting up a North Brisbane Local Area group so they can have more social activities with trading, between the Monthly Trading Days (3rd Sunday of the month). We had a great range of food,...
Our hearts go out to all who have lost loved ones, homes and businesses during these floods and experiencing PSTD from the previous floods.
LETS has the ability for you to use your time, energy, skills and knowledge to earn units like you would cash, and spend your units like you would cash, to meet your needs, without cash! You keep track on the CES server.
https://www.investopedia.com/insights/what-is-money explains that money can be whatever community decides is valuable. Gold used to be valued because the community had decided it is worth something. Like our debit cards, LETS is using something that is unseen but accounted for – on the CES platform, using an alternative currency, in our case called units.
Trading is the energy driving LETS – not the hoarding of units, so that is why going into debt when you join is equally encouraged because quite often when you join, what you badly need is blocking your ability to focus on anything else. There is always opportunities to earn units in LETS – it might be online services, hands on services, goods that no longer serve you, participating in working bees, a lift to appointments or dropping something off for someone.
So be brave and advertise your offer and wants, as it allows others to get to know you, help you with your need and become part of a supportive community!
You can start with a simple “extra pair of hands” offer and pay the once off joining fee, then start trading as soon as you receive your welcome letter email with your account number and password. Joining the Facebook Members Forum private group will allow you to talk out issues when you feel stuck for ideas, get support from the management committee etc. There is a public offers and wants Facebook group and FB page too. We are always looking for help with promotions etc – find us on Our Community Directory and oneplace.org.au.