Oswestry and District

LETS

What is LETS?

LETS stands for Local Exchange Trading System. ODLETS covers Oswestry and District, and is open to anyone living in this area. The original idea was pioneered in Canada and is now successfully being used all over the world. It is a system of bartering designed to encourage local talent and initiative, and to increase trade.

LETS is a non-profit making scheme. Trade is in units of local currency, each one being roughly equivalent to £1.00 sterling.

How does it work?

What can LETS offer me?

How do I join?

There is a small sterling registration fee to cover the cost of printing, postage, etc.
Registration fees are: Single adult £10
  Household £12
  Concessions £5

Details of your offers and requests will then be included in the next edition of the directory, and you will be issued with an account number and a cheque book.

How do I start trading?

You can start trading as soon as you have received your cheque book and account number.

Use the directory to contact members offering goods or services you wish to purchase, and agree a price in Oswalds. Pay for the completed work using an ODLETS cheque.

Members who wish to purchase goods and services from you will contact you directly. Cheques paid to you should be sent at the end of each month to the Accounts Administrator at the address above.

If you can, attend the regular trading and social meetings, where you can meet fellow members, and bring things to trade.

What can I offer?

Almost anything you can think of! Use the inspiration list below if you run out of ideas. Get help from a friend - someone who knows you well may see your gifts more clearly than you do.

If you're still stuck, try another approach ...

Categories

1 Family & child care
2 Domestic, house care
3 Business & office services
4 Repairs & maintenance
5 Transport
6 Crafts & manufacture
7 Artworks & performance
8 Building services & construction
9 Gardening & horticulture
10 Clothing & textiles
11 Language & translation
12 Catering & food
13 Equipment for hire
14 Goods for sale
15 Therapies & health
16 Personal & spiritual
17 Space & accommodation
18 Sports, games, adventure
19 Design
20 Teaching & skill sharing
21 Support & user groups
22 Information sharing
23 One-off entries
24 Pets & animals
25 Miscellaneous
26 Holidays
27 Kid's stuff

Inspiration

The directory shows you what's already on offer through ODLETS. Here are some more Wants and Offers that have been traded on other LETS schemes

Services

accountancy, advice on energy saving, appliance repair, baby-sitting, calligraphy, car maintenance, car radio installation, car sharing, car valeting, carpet cleaning, carpet-laying, children's parties, chimney sweeping, china repairs, clothing repair, cooking, costume making, darning, decorating, diet advice, digging, catering, drawing cartoons, tool sharpening, fabric painting, fencing, framing, French polishing, fruit bottling, furniture making/repair, garden planning, gutters cleared, hairdressing, hedge-laying, help choosing clothes, driving, honorary grannies, aunts, etc., house and/or garden minding, house moving, house cleaning, interior design, labouring, leather work, making shelving, massage, mural painting, nursing, office help, paint stripping, paving, pet sitting, physiotherapy, piano-tuning, plant care during holidays, plastering, plumbing, pointing, pond construction, printing, relief care, research, shopping, spring cleaning, stone walling, storytelling, tax advice, tree surgery, upholstery, waiting for tradesmen, wallpaper stripping, weekly doorstep deliveries, writing CVs

Hiring out

artists' models, attic space, B&B, chainsaws, concrete mixers, crockery, darkrooms, discos, floor sanders, grazing, holiday companions, kilns, lawnmowers, meeting rooms, music practice rooms, musicians, office space, photocopiers, projectors, sewing machines, shredders, trailers, video cameras, workshops

Selling and Teaching

any of the above


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