What a six months it’s been…

I don’t know about you, but it feels like 2018 is flying by! And Positive Money has certainly had a flying start to the year. We’ve been in the news a lot – thanks to three report launches, the Swiss hitting the polls and our fantastic network of supporters taking action. Just this weekend Positive Money director Fran Boait was on Sky News discussing how the government has made up a ‚Brexit dividend‘ to fund the NHS, after telling the public there’s ’no magic money tree‘. As we take the turn into summer, here’s a roundup of Positive Money’s best bits from the past six months… Sovereign Money Last week, Switzerland held a referendum on whether to have a sovereign money system in place of their current banking system (where private banks create 90% of their money). 25% of people voted in favour, showing there’s real appetite for radical reform of a system which doesn’t work for most people. The Swiss Vollgeld campaign has helped bring a very important issue to global attention. You can read more background or watch our video here. And check out Fran Boait’s comment piece for last Saturday’s Independent: Could the Swiss Vollgeld referendum offer an opportunity to truly take back control? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/swiss-vollgeld-referendum-money-supply-private-public-a8393166.html Greening the Bank of England Last month Positive Money economist Rob Macquarie launched his new report: ‚A Green Bank of England – Central Banking for a Low-Carbon Economy’, which has had a fantastic response. http://positivemoney.org/greenbankofengland/ The launch event in Parliament featured a high-level panel including Conservative Lord Deben, Chair of the Committee on Climate Change, and shadow Environment Minister Barry Gardiner, who said: “If climate change poses a systemic risk to our finances, then it’s surely the duty of the Bank of England to do something about it. This report is a tremendous starting point on how the Bank of England ought to go about fulfilling that mandate.” The report also landed on page 2 of the Financial Times: Bank of England urged to focus on green objectives! It’s not every day a grassroots campaign like Positive Money publishes such an important piece of research, hits headlines, and puts on a great event in Parliament! The Future of Cash In March, Bloomberg covered our report on ‚the Future of Cash‘: Cash Isn’t Going Down Without a Fight in Digital U.K, after we launched it at an event in Westminster alongside MPs. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-20/cash-isn-t-going-down-without-a-fight-in-digital-u-k To help our report hit the news, we commissioned a YouGov poll which showed that over three quarters (77%) of British adults class access to free ATMs as ‘essential’. And in an exciting development last month, our digital cash proposals found support in new Bank of England research! http://positivemoney.org/2018/05/positive-moneys-digital-cash-proposals-find-support-new-bank-england-research/ Local groups in action The Hackney local group have been training each other to do awesome presentations! For a couple of hours on a Saturday morning, six regular members are practicing presentations and picking topics to build strong local group meetings around – a fantastic idea and initiative! Next week, Positive Money supporters in Devon are gathering to present and brainstorm stories to carry our messages. This is inspired by the recent “Framing the Economy” report, produced amongst others by our friends over at the New Economics Foundation. Meanwhile the Positive Money crews in Belfast and Southampton are getting ready for festival season – making sure to have a Positive Money presence at local festivals and conferences. Fantastic work you PoMo heros! Events, events, everywhere! Positive Money supporters and the office team have been speaking at all sorts of different events this year – keeping us very busy, and meaning we’re reaching hundreds more people! Last week Noni and Rob from the office team delivered an informative and entertaining presentation as part of the Antiuniversity festival to an audience in north London, whilst next week David’s speaking alongside the Bank of England’s chief economist Andy Haldane at the Young Quakers New Economy conference. Check out this blog where you can see more of the events Positive Money’s been at this year. http://positivemoney.org/2018/06/events-events-everywhere/ Coming up… A Positive Money play! Positive Money member Shirley Wardell is putting on a play! And it’s showing this week! It’s called Balance, set in a gym, and teaches people about the money system in a fun and accessible way. It’s on in Woking for three nights and lots of Positive Money supporters are heading to see it. If enough people are interested, Shirley’s hoping to put it on in other venues around the UK. Get your tickets here! http://www.atgtickets.com/shows/balance/rhoda-mcgaw-theatre/ Local Groups Gathering In July, 30 local group leaders are coming together for two days of networking, planning and fun! Positive Money local groups meet monthly, organise actions together, and spread the word about our campaign in their local communities. They’re a fantastic space to improve your knowledge, move the campaign forward, and meet wonderful people! If you’re not involved yet, please look up your nearest local group here, http://positivemoney.org/local-groups/ or if there isn’t a local group near you, reply to this email to let us know you’re interested in helping start one! More sophisticated tech With a growing campaign comes the need for more sophisticated technology. Better online tools will help us reach more MPs, react quicker to opportunities to have impact, and organise more effectively together. Watch this space for a smoother online experience coming soon! 10 years after… … the start of the global financial crisis, and our money and banking system is still broken, and contributing to an increasingly unequal society and fragile economy. Together with some other small organisations, we want to make the most of this anniversary and capture the media’s attention with our message that finance needs to change! Put Saturday 15th September in your diaries… and if you have any ideas for creative stunts, videos or anything else you think will help – please reply to share them with us! Thank you so much for being involved, Rachel, Zack, Fran and the rest of the Positive Money team PS: Positive Money’s work simply wouldn’t be possible without donations from supporters. Already nearly 400 people make small, regular donations to Positive Money. If you help us double that number, together we could make the changes we all want to see sooner. Please will you consider making a one-off or monthly donation to Positive Money now? Click here and it takes just 2 minutes. https://secure.positivemoney.org/page/content/contribute

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Positive Money research in the news

This is exciting. A couple of weeks ago we launched our long-awaited research paper, “Escaping growth Dependency” at an event in parliament alongside MPs and famous economists such as Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics. [1] It helped us get some fantastic news coverage in articles written by Positive Money executive director, Fran Boait: “The UK’s misguided obsession with GDP is driving us all into debt” – The Independent “Unless We Kick Our Addiction to Growth, We’re Heading Towards A Debt-Fuelled Dystopia” – The Huffington Post The headlines might seem gloomy, but our message is a hopeful one. One article finishes: “Economic growth itself was only introduced as a priority in the second half of the twentieth century. Just as ideas and the systems they produce have been changed before, we too have the power to change them again.” Together we know we have the ideas and solutions we need to create a fairer better economic system. And we know that our power comes from – not just our ideas – but the number of us willing to spread and support our vision of a fairer economic system. Every time each of us convinces another person to sing from our hymn sheet, our power builds a little more. So if you are excited by the Positive Money movement – by our research, campaigns and events – please will you share the message below with 5 friends or family who you think could be persuaded to join our movement now? You can copy and paste it into an email, Facebook message or text message (and feel free to change it into your own words!): Hi, I’m a supporter of the Positive Money campaign. We’re a people-powered movement to reform the money and banking system so that we can have a fairer, more democratic and more sustainable economy. There are lots of important campaigns we can choose to support. But this one is all about changing the root causes of many of the things that are important to me and to our society: our housing crisis, soaring inequality, protecting our environment, an unstable economy. Slowly but surely, Positive Money is leading the charge for a fairer and better money and banking system. Just last week they launched some groundbreaking research in an event in parliament with high-profile economists, journalists and MPs there. The more of us who join this movement – simply by signing up to their campaign online as a starting point – the closer we’ll get to changing things for good. Please will you consider joining me and signing up to Positive Money’s fortnightly newsletter? You can sign up and read more about the great events, research and activity Positive Money supporters have been up to recently, here: http://positivemoney.org/blog Thanks, Last week’s launch event of the Escaping Growth Dependency paper brought together journalists, MPs, economists and activists. It was fantastic to have so many people in a room hearing how reforming the monetary system could prevent our dependence on unsustainable growth. And we’re pleased to announce you can now watch a video of the event here. http://positivemoney.org/2018/02/escaping-growth-dependency-launch-parliament-video/ But before you do, please take a minute to share the message above with 5 friends. Because the more of us who are willing to spread our message, the more powerful we’ll be. And when hundreds of us do it at the same time, the ripple effect can be huge – that is the wonderful magic of people power. Thanks for being involved, Rachel, Sophie, Fran and the rest of the Positive Money team PS: You can see a summary and a link to the full paper here. http://positivemoney.org/publications/escaping-growth-dependency/ Notes: [1] http://positivemoney.org/2018/02/escaping-growth-dependency-launch-parliament-video/

It’s out: ground-breaking research

This morning, Positive Money launched our new research paper “Escaping Growth Dependency”, at an exciting panel event in parliament. Journalists, MPs, economists and activists gathered to hear how reforming the monetary system could reduce debt and dependence on unsustainable growth. Not everyone can make it to London for these events, but as supporters of Positive Money, we want you to be amongst the first to see the paper while it’s hot off the press! Please click here to see a summary and a link to the full paper.http://positivemoney.org/publications/escaping-growth-dependency/Even as the ecological barriers of our finite planet get clearer, governments are still determined to pursue unrestrained economic growth at any cost to the environment. But if we reform money, we can shift our economies away from the fixation on growth. Today we used the launch of this report to tell people in power exactly that message. Positive Money director Fran Boait introduced the report, then Kate Raworth (author of Doughnut Economics), Labour’s Alex Sobel MP, Conservative Kevin Hollinrake MP (from the APPG on Limits to Growth) and Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley had a rich discussion in a debate chaired by Faiza Shaheen, director of CLASS. Here’s a few photos from the event… And some of the best quotes…. „As the catastrophic effects of a growth-led economy on the environment become more and more clear, the reality is that a finite planet cannot sustain infinite economic growth. In order to move beyond this dependence on growth, there needs to be a discussion of the systemic reforms which could support the transition to a fairer and more sustainable economy“, Fran Boait „We need different metrics and different models, and I’m pleased that Positive Money are bringing forward different macroeconomic solutions“, Alex Sobel MP „We need to develop alternative metaphors and different ways of looking at the economy, and this is what Positive Money are doing with this report“, Jonathan Bartley   Soon we’ll put a link to the video of the full event on the website (please bear with us, this can take a bit of time!), and over the weekend there may well be news articles and comment pieces about the launch of this paper. But for now, we invite you to share in the excitement of the launch of this ground-breaking research, by checking out the paper itself: Please click here to see a summary and a link to the full paper. http://positivemoney.org/publications/escaping-growth-dependency/ Thank you for all you do to support our campaign, Rachel, Fran, Sophie and the rest of the Positive Money team PS: Putting on launch events like this in parliament – which are a very useful way to reach the people with power – are only possible thanks to the generous donations from Positive Money supporters. Since Christmas, some supporters of our work have set up small, regular donations. So if you’d like to help make our work together go even further in 2018, please consider setting up a regular donation now: Yes – I’ll set up a monthly donation http://act.positivemoney.org/page/content/monthly-donation-10

What we achieved together in 2017

 Grab a mince pie and a cuppa and let me tell you a story. It’s got everything a good story needs: tragedy, hope, and humanity… Back in 2010 the Positive Money campaign was set up because enough of us believed that our politicians‘ response to the financial crisis wasn’t good enough.

After the global economy went into meltdown, politicians chose to punish most of us ordinary people in society through austerity politics, by telling us we’d overspent and there wasn’t any money left. People lost their jobs, businesses closed, people started using food banks and numbers have just gone up since.

And in the years that followed, these same politicians allowed the people in charge of our central bank, the Bank of England, to create billions of pounds of new money and pump it to the very richest 1-5%, all in the name of boosting the economy for all of us. It did no such thing. It made the rich richer and everyday inequality in our country grows.

Tragic irony? The world’s biggest scam? Whatever the phrase that comes to mind, Positive Money supporters knew this wasn’t right. So we started a movement to change things.

We knew we had to to get the truth out – our money and banking system was a fundamental cause of the crisis, and we need a better, fairer, more sustainable one. So we started producing research, getting together in our local communities to spread the word, and having meetings with politicians, journalists, and other civil society groups.

Over the last seven years, together we’ve reached millions of people with our message – we’re starting to get through to politicians, economists, journalists and the public.

And this in a large part thanks to people like you. Sharing emails and social media posts with your friends, writing to and meeting your MPs, chipping in so we can take action together. When each of us do what we can, it adds up to something powerful. And the beauty of our movement is that it’s powered by people.

Below are some of the key things we’ve achieved together in 2017, but first I want to ask you to consider setting up a small, monthly donation to Positive Money. Regular monthly donations are really important for Positive Money. They mean we can make plans for the future, and mean we don’t have to rely on one-off grants from charitable trusts and foundations.

So please will you consider chipping in a small amount regularly so that together we can have an even bigger impact in 2018?

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Here are some of our best bits from 2017. When I look around at everything Positive Money supporters have achieved together this year, it’s hard not to burst with pride…

Packed out events with all-star panels in London and Brussels

Over 200 journalists, economists and Positive Money supporters put questions to Ed Balls, Martin Wolf and Fran Boit at the RSA.

At our biggest ever event in parliament, Lord Adair Turner, Anthony Hilton and Fran Boat asked: Is a crisis looming for central banks?

Earlier this month Positive Money helped organise the first Change Finance conference in Brussels. Over 200 people – including campaigners from Oxfam, Greenpeace and the Tax Justice Campaign, academics, economists, expert advisers, activists and students – came together to build alliances and skills.

Reaching hundreds of thousands with our appearances in the media

A „This is Money“ journalist wrote a very positive article about Positive Money, after joining 35 of our supporters and staff on our annual retreat to the Lake District in September.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-5062717/Should-create-money-differently-solve-problems.html

One of the UK’s leading columnists, Zoe Williams, wrote an article in the Guardian inspired by Positive Money. She explained how the actual magic money tree works.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/shortcuts/2017/oct/29/how-the-actual-magic-money-tree-works

Our professional poll of MPs, paid for by hundreds of Positive Money supporters, exposed how many don’t understand where money comes from. It made the front page of City AM!

http://www.cityam.com/274631/shocking-ignorance-mps-dont-know-money-actually-comes

 Going viral with our online videos: putting Mark Carney, Theresa May and MPs right

Change Finance Forum next week

Next week, the first “Change Finance Forum” is happening in Brussels, and you’re invited! The forum will help us prepare for the launch of a global Change Finance campaign in 2018. It will bring together civil society organisations like Oxfam, Positive Money and Open Democracy – to name just a few! – along with academics, sustainable business leaders and economists. It’s being organised by our friends at Finance Watch, the European civil society organisation that works to counterweight the powerful financial lobby. [1] Because as we already know, if we’re going to resolve the world’s huge economic, social and environmental imbalances, we need to build a common understanding of how finance needs to change. The forum’s happening on 4 – 5th December in central Brussels. We know it’s short notice, but for the keenest amongst you who are free next week, we thought you might fancy booking a train or flight to join us in Brussels! (It’s only a couple of hours from London by Eurostar!) So if you’re keen, please follow this link for more details and to register to come.http://mailchi.mp/finance-watch/members-update-2069597?e=58c477e5a1There’s an exciting array of workshops and panel events lined up, including speakers such as: Micah White, Co-creator of the Occupy Wall Street movement Fran Boait, Executive Director at Positive Money Brett Scott, Campaigner, former broker, and the author of The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money Benoît Lallemand, Secretary General, Finance Watch Frank Van Lerven, Economist, New Economics Foundation Positive Money will be running two workshops: one on how monetary policy can better support an economic recovery, and one on sustainable finance and green central banking. So if you’re interested in coming, you can find out more information and register to attend the forum here.http://mailchi.mp/finance-watch/members-update-2069597?e=58c477e5a1 Thank you for being amongst the most committed supporters of the Positive Money movement, Rachel, David, Fran and the rest of the Positive Money team Notes: [1]  http://www.finance-watch.org/about-us

Positive Money Europe?

Thanks to supporters like you, Positive Money is growing, both here in the UK and abroad. What we’re doing together – proactive and reactive research and campaigning – is working. So more people are joining our movement for a fairer money and banking system. We’re proud to be part of the wider network of groups fighting for system change around the world. In fact, thanks to many of you, in 2013 Positive Money UK helped launch the International Movement for Monetary Reform – the umbrella body that brings all these groups together. [1] The IMMR is now thriving, with two staff coordinators and a coherent message across all groups. And now we’re excited to tell you: we’re helping to launch Positive Money Europe! Building on the momentum of the QE for People in the Eurozone campaign that I’ve been running for the last two years, we have an opportunity to establish an organisation in Europe. [2] I’m already working full-time in Brussels, and Ludovic and Rashida have joined me part-time too. [3] But to launch Positive Money Europe as an official organisation, we need to raise £5,500 for legal fees and admin costs. As an organisation we could do research and run campaigns specifically targeting MEPs and decision makers at the European Central Bank. The simple truth is, our movement wouldn’t be possible without donations – big and small – from individuals like you. And the quicker we raise this money, the quicker Positive Money Europe will start to have impact. So , please will you chip in today so together we can launch Positive Money Europe before Christmas? positivemoney.org/page/content/pomo-europe-fundraiser-landing/ Once you click the button, it’ll take you two minutes to make a secure donation. The average donation is £11, but we are grateful for anything you can afford. The UK might be on its way out of the EU, but that doesn’t change the fact we need to reform the European banking system too. Because after all, the UK is just one country within a global system that is broken. We need to work to build new money and banking systems, that support fair, democratic, and sustainable economies, all over the world. And let’s not forget why we – supporters like you, or office staff like me – do everything we do to build our movement for a fairer world. With youth unemployment over 40% in Spain, Greece and Italy, and the average UK student leaving university £50,000 in debt, it’s time we had economic systems that worked for ordinary people, and not just for the privileged few. [4] Positive Money is a people-powered movement. We’re making progress because thousands of us do our bit. We work within a small budget, but it still costs money. So Sylvia, please will you chip in a few pounds today so together we can help launch our european movement with a bang? positivemoney.org/page/content/pomo-europe-fundraiser-landing/ Thank you for all you do, Stan, Rachel, Fran and the rest of the Positive Money team Notes [1] http://internationalmoneyreform.org/ [2] The QE for people in the Eurozone campaign has had lots of success since Positive Money UK set it up in 2015: http://www.qe4people.eu/what_we_achieved_in_2016 [3] http://positivemoney.org/about/who-we-are/ [4] http://www.qe4people.eu/about http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-40493658

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MP poll results

Dear Sylvia, Revealed today: 85% of MPs don’t know where money comes from. This is pretty worrying considering money is central to every aspect of our lives. Every big political issue – from inequality, to the housing crisis, to the fight against climate change – is closely connected to the money system. Our economy is not in a good place. People’s wages aren’t keeping up with the cost of living. Most of us haven’t had a pay rise in over a decade. [1] To understand what’s gone wrong, MPs need to grasp the basics of how our economy works, now more than ever. If together, we expose this news, by each sharing it with our friends and family today, we can build pressure on our MPs to buck up and do their homework – before they fail to stop a financial crash.Please watch and share this 1 minute video now. If you don’t use Facebook, please forward this email to your friends, family, and colleagues. The results of our poll of MPs is in business newspaper City AM today. http://www.cityam.com/274631/shocking-ignorance-mps-dont-know-money-actually-comes It shows only 15% of MPs polled know the truth, that most of the money in our economy is created when banks make loans. [2] The poll was possible thanks to Positive Money supporters. [3] Back in July, hundreds of us chipped in to commission parliamentary monitoring company Dods to run the poll over the summer. Positive Money is a people-powered movement. Together we shine a light on our dysfunctional money and banking system, and the lack of understanding around it. We’re working towards a fairer and more effective system – which benefits the environment, our democracy and every community in the UK.  When we act together we use our collective people power to make an impact – whether it’s chipping in a few pounds or sharing videos and reports with our friends. Please will you help expose the results of this poll by sharing the video now? If you don’t use Facebook, please forward this email to your friends, family, and colleagues. Thanks for all you do, Rachel, David, Fran and the rest of the Positive Money team PS: In 2014 Positive Money commissioned a similar poll of MPs. The difference between the 2017 and 2014 results shows our work has had some impact in that time, but that we’ve still got lots to do to educate our MPs on how the money and banking system works. [4] NOTES: [1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/quarter-of-young-people-in-constant-debt-as-prices-increase-and-wages-stagnate-finds-study-a7955176.html [2] City AM article: http://www.cityam.com/274631/shocking-ignorance-mps-dont-know-money-actually-comes [3] 2017 MP Poll results: http://positivemoney.org/2017/10/mp-poll/ [4] 2014 MP Poll results: http://positivemoney.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Positive-Money-Dods-Monitoring-Poll-of-MPs.pdf

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A chance we cannot miss

The Conservative Party annual conference is just around the corner and Positive Money needs to be there. Our economy is in a dire state. Ten years on since the financial crash, one in eight workers can’t afford three meals a day and household debt is rising at the fastest rate ever. [1] The Bank of England has tried to stimulate the economy, but its tools aren’t working – and now it has run out of options. [2] Politicians and policy makers are looking around for solutions. Positive Money has them. To reach the most powerful politicians who are currently in government, we need to put on an event at the Conservative Party conference. And that means we have to pay – for conference fees, promotional materials and briefing documents to give to politicians on the day. But if enough of us chip in a few pounds each today, together we could raise the £3500 we need for the conference fees before this Thursday’s deadline. So  please will you chip in now? http://act.positivemoney.org/page/content/mp-poll-donate-landing/   Positive Money is already holding an event at the Labour Party Conference (it’s happening this Tuesday in Brighton)! But the Conservative Party Conference fees are more expensive, so we need to raise enough money to make sure we can have an event there too. At last year’s Conservative conference, we had an impressive panel and a packed-out room. [3] This year, we’re likely to have a member of the powerful Treasury Select Committee speaking at our event, so that would be a direct link to someone who can help re-open the committee’s inquiry into the impact of monetary policy. Our people-powered campaign really is going from strength to strength. Only a couple of months ago we had our biggest ever event in Parliament, thousands of you have reached out to your MPs this year, and we’ve got nearly 35 local groups meeting regularly around the country. [4] Holding a big event at the Conservative Party Conference will help us reach the most powerful people in politics. And help us build on the growing awareness of Positive Money amongst MPs thanks to supporters like you. But it will only be possible if enough of us chip in together now. Sylvia, please will you make a secure donation now? It should take you about a minute: http://act.positivemoney.org/page/content/mp-poll-donate-landing/ Thank you for your ongoing support, Rachel, David, Fran and the rest of the Positive Money team Notes: [1] http://positivemoney.org/2017/07/personal-debt/ [2] http://positivemoney.org/2017/08/25393/ [3] http://positivemoney.org/2016/10/positive-money-party-conferences/ [4] http://positivemoney.org/2017/07/crisis-central-banks/

The start of something exciting

Dear Sylvia, Positive Money supporters are at the heart of our people-powered campaign for a fairer money and banking system. In the last year alone we’ve taken some fantastic action together: through street stalls, huge petitions and public stunts, we’ve reached thousands of people. We also punch well above our weight with nearly 35 active groups around the UK! But one way we could make our network even stronger is by growing and diversifying it. Our survey this year showed that three quarters of Positive Money supporters are over 45. We certainly don’t want to lose any of these highly valued supporters!… But we know it would make our campaign stronger if we had thousands more young action-takers too. So together with supporters, we’ve hatched a plan to target young people directly: we’ll raise the money to hire an intern to lead the launch of a Positive Money youth network. The intern’s focus will be to run training days for young people and students, teaching them how to run presentations about the Positive Money campaign, for other young people in their area. It’s an experiment. But it could be the start of something very exciting: a growing group of connected young people, spreading the word and joining us in the fight, for a fairer, more democratic and sustainable economy. Working to change and shape their future. But if we’re going to do it, we need enough money to pay the intern a fair wage and for materials to make the project a success. Positive Money’s work wouldn’t be possible without people power. Without lots of us chipping in to build a fairer economy quicker. So Sylvia, please will you chip in now so we can hire an intern to launch our youth network this Autumn?http://act.positivemoney.org/page/content/intern-fundraiser-landing/ The last election proved that you can’t overlook the power of young people. They came out in their millions and voted, many for the first time. Because they can see that the economy isn’t working for them – that high-debt, unaffordable homes and intergenerational inequality are giving younger generations a raw deal. And Positive Money has solutions for so many of these issues. We want a fairer, greener, more democratic and sustainable system, that gives young people a secure start in life and a protected environment for the future. And we have the evidence to show how it’s possible. If we could train hundreds of young people around the country to give inspiring talks and workshops to thousands more young people, we could double the strength of our campaign and bring about the changes we all want to see, faster. A dedicated staff member is the best way to make it happen. Initially, we want to hire an intern for 12 weeks and pay them the London Living Wage. Please will you chip in now so we can hire an intern to start in the Autumn? http://act.positivemoney.org/page/content/intern-fundraiser-landing/ Thank you for your ongoing support, Rachel, David and the rest of the Positive Money team PS: In an email we sent to you a couple of weeks ago, we incorrectly stated that Nicky Morgan MP has recently become the new chair of the Monetary Policy Committee. This is a Bank of England committee, not a parliamentary one. She has in fact been appointed chair of the Treasury Select Committee. Please accept our apologies for this mistake and any confusion caused.

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AdVans following Corbyn and May? You and I have two things in common: we know that at the heart of our unbalanced economy is our unfair money and banking system. And we’re frustrated that more people don’t know this. But this week we’ve got an opportunity to get our message to thousands and thousands more people – and particularly two politicians with the most power to change things. We’ve booked two AdVans to drive around Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May’s constituencies this Wednesday, on their final day of campaigning. This will make sure they, their teams and their voters see our message. Check the vans out! [1]http://act.positivemoney.org/page/content/ad-van-fundraiser-landing/   But we can’t confirm them until we raise £3000 to cover the cost. If each person reading this chipped in just a few pounds, we could get the vans ready to go now. Sylvia, please will you chip in so Positive Money can book the AdVans and get our message to the people that matter most this election? http://act.positivemoney.org/page/content/ad-van-fundraiser-landing/ Positive Money supporters have always stood up for a fair economy. And for the last 9 months we’ve been calling on the government and Bank of England to scrap their unfair policies. In fact, Theresa May has already admitted monetary policy is causing inequality and she wants it to change. And Jeremy Corbyn’s whole campaign is based on “for the many not the few”. But now they need to know that thousands of us will be holding them to their promises. And they should start by pushing for a policy to put newly-created money straight into the real economy – like our image shows. So, please will you help get the Positive Money message to Jeremy Corbyn, Theresa May and all their voters – and chip in for the AdVans now?   http://act.positivemoney.org/page/content/ad-van-fundraiser-landing/ We know that if we fixed our broken money and banking system we could create thousands of secure jobs in green energy, build affordable homes for everyone who needs them, and bring down the huge inequality that’s breaking our society. But one of our main challenges together is to get our message out. Clear, loud and to the right people. These vans will help us reach thousands who need to hear it. And we’ve got a group of Positive Money supporters ready to unveil the vans to the local media too!   So please will you chip in the same amount as a cup of coffee now?  http://act.positivemoney.org/page/content/ad-van-fundraiser-landing/ Thanks for all you do, ​Rachel, Fran and the rest of the Positive Money team​ Notes: [1] Here’s a bigger version of the image that will be on the van: http://act.positivemoney.org/page/content/ad-van-fundraiser-landing/

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