CounterCoin and Cultural Squatters in Newcastle-Under-Lyme The weekly CounterCoin meeting at Cultural Squatters (photo credit: Jeremy Cliffe) by Nikos Ntounis and James Scott Vandeventer Alternative currencies have been around for many years, to the point that they can be seen as a rather old technology for dealing with societal, economic, and developmental changes. Indeed, the […]
Posted on 30 November, 2018 by The Steady State Manchester team The first of two pieces on Countercoin. In this one Mike Riddell (of CounterCoin Community Club Limited, Hometown Plus Limited and Steady State Manchester) reports on the Countercoin Challenge event held last week in Newcastle u Lyme. Next up is Carolyn Kagan’s report on the event with more […]
And the winner is…..Burslem (The Co-Operative Academy of Stoke on Trent). Mel and Narina were so, so close, but the kids at the school knew what they had to do to win (they started after everyone else but also had the advantage of knowing the other results. A bit unfair you could say…but it wasn’t […]
Read the real thing here . Or carry on . Last Wednesday, I caught the early train up to Newcastle-under-Lyme. My target – Cultural Squatters and a chance to see their cafe and talk to Narina and Mike about CounterCoins. As a concept, it is extremely interesting. The cafe was friendly and it was nice […]
Here are the latest CounterCoin documents for download and distribution Updated flyer CounterCoin redeemer leaflet CounterCoin volunteer leaflet CounterCoin issuer leaflet
Dear friends, The time is nearing for us to act. I honestly don’t know anyone that isn’t suffering to some degree or other. For most of us, in relative terms, that’s not a great deal. There’s always someone worse off than you. But you don’t need me to wax lyrical about the pain people are […]
So yesterday’s team meeting was attended by Narina, Steve, Brian, Tim, Monica, Grega and me. The focus of course is round 1 of The CounterCoin Challenge. We began by reminding ourselves about why we’re running the challenge. The main objective is to raise awareness of CounterCoin and generate some positive PR for everyone involved. This […]