Brixton £

[matt m]

Just wondering how stuff like that is going to affect the economics of it. Is it good for the B£ or bad, if Brixton pounds go out of the system?

And, as a non-Brixton resident, should I embrace or avoid the B£?

1. It wouldn't make any difference to the economics of it unless people were so souvenir crazy that they were regularly buying multiples of notes and keeping them. I doubt anyone buying one as a souvenir is buying 10, as it were.

Also, people buying them as a souvenir/collector's item are slightly missing the point: there's no reason why Brixton £s shouldn't continue to exist as long as sterling, or as long as Brixton itself. The Lewes pound has been going for years and shows no sign of stopping.

2. As a non-Brixton resident, you should embrace the Brixton pound if you want to support Brixton business, or not if you don't.

 

[PacificOcean]

I just don't get it.

Why would you want a currency that has the face value of sterling, but can only be used in a few shops in Brixton?

What if, God forbid, you leave Brixton and find yourself in the West End with only 20 Brixton pounds?

If you want to support local business, why not just go there and use Sterling?

Why all this faffing about with a fake currency?

It worked in Lewes as they paid other people in Lewes with the Lewes pound for services such as plumbing or local goods, but I doubt many cash & carry places where people buy their stock in Brixton from will take Brixton pounds - meaning the shops just have to change them back to Sterling.

It makes no sense.

 

[matt m]

there's already been a very long thread on this subject which answered this and plenty of similar questions in painstaking detail, ad nauseam.

 

[matt m]

this is it here:
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=302028

 

[quimcunx]

Well I was in the bookmonger the other day and they had some leaflets so I took one. I asked if he was getting much trade in B£s and he said he reckoned about B£100 a week, which was more than I would have thought.

 

[shakespearegirl]

The White Horse have special Brixton £ prices on food. Its around 50p cheaper if you pay that way..

 

[Pickman's model]

speaking of white horse, what happened to the famous whisky of that name?

 

[nick h.]

Some evidence of food being produced in Brixton and suppliers being paid in £B - Wild Caper sells locally produced ginger drinks, and apple juice made on a farm in Somerset owned by a Brixton resident.

 

[teuchter]

a farm in Somerset owned by a Brixton resident.

I wonder how the Somersetians feel about this.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

there's an updated list of businesses that accept the Brixton £ here

There's now 124 places that take it now - an improvement from the 80 or 90 when it was launched in Sept.

New places include the Satay Bar (where you can get 10% off when you pay in B£), that vintage clothes shop called Secondo and the Bushman Cafe near the station which is running a B£ loyalty scheme.

And apparently there's a pre-Christmas B£ pub-crawl event planned for Thursday 10th December

 

[miss minnie]

The farmer's market organisers/managers were waving Brixton £s around yesterday... when I asked they said that all (most?) of the stalls would take them.

 

[nick]

Need to get the Gallery on side - I've got loads of Brixton pounds that need to be converted into calores