LETS: Local Exchange Trading System
LETS South your local barter system for trading
skills, services and goods.
LETS South
was set up in the Willunga area by a group of
local people about 19 years ago. It is part of a worldwide
system started in Canada. LETS South has been an
incorporated body for 18 years. LETS South is available to
people in the Fleurieu Peninsula area of South Australia.
LETS systems are simple bartering systems using very old
methods of exchange and barter in an organised way for
modern life. In order to join and trade or barter you need to
have some skills, services or goods to offer the bartering
community.
Sometimes when people inquire about Membership they have
the belief that they have nothing to offer. It is rare to find
someone who does not have something they can trade or
barter once a skills inventory is completed with them.This
simply means looking at the jobs, hobbies and experiences
they have had through their life which have equipped them
with knowledge, skills and tradeable goods which they can
barter in exchange for Barter Dollars ~ $B.
The real wealth of a community lies in the skills, knowledge
and wisdom of it's members.In LETS we value and recognise
those assets and place an emphasis on them that is sometimes
lost in the monetary world. LETS is not limited by availability of
cash or restricted by cash flow and is for anyone, whatever their
income.
All are valued in a LETS System for what they do and provide
the community.Although the rate of payment of $B may vary
according to task, every skill is valued and some of the more
basic ones more sought after than others.
LETS systems are about sharing and caring, being part of a
community that helps itself and isn't burdened by the apathy of
hard financial times.Enabling others, providing opportunities for
work, learning and exchanging goods and skills all contribute to
the empowerment of a community and enhance it's abilities to
survive difficult times.
LETS enables community wealth.The real wealth of any
community lies in what it's members have to offer each other
and the community at large.This wealth survives
depressions,recessions and economic downturns and in fact
may be strengthened by them.When times are hard and money
short, many find strengths,resources and new skills they didn't
know they had which become essential for survival.
LETS rewards those efforts and places a value on them.
Once you have had a look at this LETS South website and see
what LETS is about, you may decide you'd like to be part of our
barter community.
If you think you have something to offer and something to gain
by Membership of an active community group of like-minded
people, please phone 8556 2705 or
email: membership@letssouth.com
for an appointment to discuss your Membership application.
LETS South welcomes people of all ages, all abilities and
skills.
Come and talk to us!
Reviewed & Revised 27 July 2010