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Development Education in Dorset (DEED)

A Charity & Social Enterprise based in Poole

DEED aims to enable people to understand the links between their own lives and the lives of people throughout the world, to increase understanding of the economic, social, political and environmental factors that shape our lives, to develop the skills, attitudes and values that enable people to work together to bring about change, and to work towards achieving a more just and sustainable world.

Direct from Dorset

A Private Enterprise based in Dorchester

Promoting Dorset products with a Dorset pedigree.

LETS North Dorset (Local Exchange Trading System)

A Community Group based in Gillingham

To provide a means of exchanging goods & services without cash at a grass roots level; an alternative economy.

LETS SW Dorset (Local Exchange & Trading System)

A Community Group based in Bridport

To promote local trade through a currency based on friendship and available to all.

LETSystem, Dorchester & South Dorset (Local Exchange Trading System)

A Community Group based in Dorchester, Dorset

The project is providing a way for people to trade goods, skills and services with each other by means of a simple bartering system where members can exchange skills, services and time without the need for cash, helping those in work, the unemployed, school-leavers, senior citizens, single parents, new business ventures, small businesses, shops and community groups - the list is endless. Is a sociable economy based on friendship.

Vintage Dorset

A Private Enterprise based in Dorset

Vintage Dorset is a sustainable transition business which is striving to be resilient in the face of Peak Oil and Climate Change. The aims of the business are to:

- Provide services and products that celebrate and promote vintage and traditional ways of doing things (learning from the periods prior to cheap oil)
- Encourage a "make-do-and-mend" ethos re-using otherwise redundant artifacts and encouraging home-made, local and low-impact consumer behaviours
- Develop and encourage a market for organic and locally produced food
- Promote local leisure activities that negate or reduce the need for travel
- Work with and support other transition and vintage businesses who share our values

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