CREATIVE LOCAL SOLUTIONS

I have been working on a freelance basis on and of for nearly 2 decades, having completed an environmental science degree in Salford in 1995. I did not really know what I was going to do at that point, other than that it would be community based, and that it would be close to home (I spent 3 years commuting from St.Helens to Salford, and vowed never to do it again)... I began making my own way in life, with a keen interest in developing complimentary currency systems called LETS - or Local Exchange Trading Systems. At this point, I also got involved in the permaculture movement, which promotes practical, solutions based approaches to solving environmental and social issues at a local level. Money was tight, as these were new ideas, and funding was not available, plus my experience of working in the not-for-profit sector was virtually non. However, I ducked and I dived, and somehow I learned to keep my head above water, in the cash-scarce not-for-profit sector. Towards the end of 1999..

Primary location: United Kingdom