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The local press has been really enthusiastic:
Businesses sign up to Exeter Pound as local currency launch nears | Exeter Express and Echo
Jo Pavey is face of new Exeter Pound note | Exeter Express and Echo
This is the news from Transition Exeter:
Exeter Pound Launch
Come to Cathedral Yard and be present at the historic moment when the Exeter Pound is launched and the first pound spent by Exeter’s mayor, Cllr Olwen Foggin.
You’ll be able to buy some of the first ever Exeter Pound notes then and there and spend them (if you wish) at a market on the Cathedral apron with traders accepting Exeter Pounds as well as sterling.
Speakers will be Cllr Rosie Denham, Rob Hopkins (Transition Network), Ciaran Mundy (Bristol Pound), Molly Scott Cato (Green MEP), Ben Bradshaw MP.
There will be music, buskers, celebration and fun for the rest of the day.
Exeter Pound Launch | Transition Exeter
And this is the press release from the Exeter Pound folk:
Exeter Pound Launch
At 11 o'clock on the morning of the first of September 2015, the first Exeter Pound will be spent. Join the rest of Exeter on this momentous occasion to mark a significant step toward a fair and sustainable society. There will be a community market set up in front of the cathedral with a selection of local traders who have stepped up to be the first of many to take the local currency. Swap your sterling for Exeter money, listen to our guest speakers including Molly Scott Cato MEP renowned economist and Member of European Parliament for the South West and find out about plans for the currency as it will develop over the coming years.
See you all there!
WHEN
September 01, 2015 at 10am - 7pm
WHERE
Cathedral Green
Exeter Cathedral
1 The Cloisters
Exeter, Devon EX1 1HS
United Kingdom
Google map and directions
Exeter Cathedral
1 The Cloisters
Exeter, Devon EX1 1HS
United Kingdom
Google map and directions
Exeter Pound Launch - Exeter Pound
See also:
Green Economist - Home
Bristol Pound - Our City. Our Money
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