Members put the wheels on BrisLETS – what do you want to see happening and how can you help achieve it?
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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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Join by Mobile and Enter Trades Easily
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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Join and Connect with our Members Groups
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
May Trading Day, 3rd Sunday 15th, 1-4pm
BLCE1335 Michael & Isabelle are hosting a social and trading day at their lovely Yeronga house. Please bring items or skills to trade, a plate to share in a lovely social atmosphere and ideas you would like to be raised to increase BrisLETS's value. It was a great...
No April Trading Day at the Albion Peace Hall.
It's the Easter Weekend and members have lots happening - no Trading Day on Sunday 17th. See you for a lovely social event next month!
News – Featured Articles
Marg’s Trading Day in March 2022
It was wonderful to meet new members and members who haven't been able to attend for awhile. Lots of very happy feet who received healing and some great dress fitting, plants swapped. Thank you Marg for providing space to do some more recording interviews and Michael...
Thank you Michael and members
We have uploaded the interviews Michael kindly did at the February Trading Day. We hope to use these videos to make promotions for BrisLETS. It was lovely to see all the activity on the day!
AGM at the August Trading Day on 3rd Sunday 21st 2022
BrisLETS has a management committee who has the legal responsibility for the incorporation, bank account, meetings, acceptance of members etc. Membership, support and updating is needed the in CES platform. We also have lots of other non management roles to facilitate...
Andrew’s 2nd article – DEBIT and CREDIT Limits
In the BrisLETS CES exchange there are account balance limits, ours are currently set at 2000 for both Credit and Debit balances for all accounts. If we examine the account balances on our exchange we can see that most people's accounts are within this...
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.
By connecting with a caring community to meet every day needs even ones considered luxury, that allows you to contribute in a way you can, by helping others, increases your overall health and sense of belonging.
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.