Reuse of Coop Bank premises

From Stella Creasy MP's Newsletter

The Bank Job: Walthamstow Debt Project  

HSCB (Hoe Street Central Bank) launches in March 2018 in the former CoOp Bank in Walthamstow. This project involves a team of local people, employed as trainee money printmakers, who will work with artist Hilary Powell to create £50,000 worth of limited edition currency to exchange for the pounds needed to buy up £1 million worth of debt and abolish it. The bank will be a hub of everyday economic education, inviting diverse participants and audiences to take part in debate on the urgent need for, and ways towards, a fairer economy and society.

As part of this the team have a series of local talks and events planned. This includes a launch event on Monday 12th March between 7.30pm to 10pm, where you can meet the four local leaders celebrated by HSCB banknotes, battling budget cuts to provide basic services to the people of Waltham Forest. There will also be a trailer screening of ‘Bank Job: People Powered Money’, the documentary feature film by Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell behind ‘Money Talks’.

On Tuesday 13th March between 7.30pm -10pm there will be a talk on "What is money and how can it work for us?" This debate brings together ideas about new and alternative currencies and cashless systems based on moral accounting and exchange. It looks at how and if these work and how to push for a system of money creation working for and not against the people.

To keep upto date with this project and for more details on events please follow them on Facebook.