Rachel Oliver
A People’s Panel on the Cost of Living
5 May, 2023May 5, 2023 The huge social, economic and environmental challenges we face today prove our current policy-making process isn’t working for everyone or our planet - so we decided to try something a bit different. In the autumn and winter of 2022-23, Positive Money partnered with Cheshire East Council to organise the Cheshire East People’s [...]
12 highlights from 2022
31 December, 2022December 31, 2022 2022 has been a big year for Positive Money - whether it's promoting solutions to our housing crisis, running our first local participatory democracy event with a local Council, or exposing the extent of influence big banks have over some of our politicians. We’re working together to reimagine money and banks [...]
What we need to see in the government’s Green Finance Strategy
20 June, 2022June, 2022 -The government’s asking the public’s opinion on how far and fast it should ‘green’ our financial system. So thousands of us are responding to its Green Finance Strategy survey. This strategy has the potential to accelerate green investment in infrastructure, local communities, and jobs - but only if the government acts boldly… Along [...]
12 highlights of 2021
21 December, 2021December 21, 2021 A step towards a greener economy In March, together we helped win a historic new ‘green’ mandate for the Bank of England. This means it must now work towards sustainability and net-zero - a huge step forward for protecting our planet. We put key reports and open letters on policy makers’ desks, [...]
The Prime Minister must put public health before private wealth
3 August, 2020How come, right now, in some parts of the UK you can meet your friends and family in a restaurant but you can’t in your own garden? Sound ridiculous? That’s because it is, and it’s all because of money. The Prime Minister’s conflicting advice exposes the rot at the heart of the government’s economic ideology: [...]
Positive Money at Glastonbury and Stir to Action festivals
13 August, 2019Festival Season is in full swing and Positive Money’s been getting involved! We’re keen to empower as many people as possible in communities around the UK to demand a money and banking system that serves them and not just bankers in the City of London. Sarah from Bath volunteered on the Positive Money stall at [...]
“Stop the RBS sell-off” petition delivery at the Treasury
20 March, 2019On Wednesday 13th March, Positive Money supporters, Green Party leader Jonathan Bartley and representatives from We Own It and the New Economics Foundation delivered our petition with more than 12,000 signatures, to Chancellor Philip Hammond at the Treasury calling on him to "Stop the RBS sell-off". Here are some pictures from the delivery: And the [...]
Introducing “The Money Question” website
15 March, 2019Today we’re launching themoneyquestion.org! It’s a website dedicated to constructive research and debate all about monetary theory and monetary reform, including content on MMT and a Sovereign Money System. Here's a 2-minute video with Kate Raworth which explains more about it: How will a Sovereign Money System work? What questions do we need to answer [...]
2019 Positive Money Supporter Survey Results
1 February, 2019Throughout January over 1400 supporters took the annual Positive Money supporter survey about what we should do together in 2019 to move us closer to the fairer, safer, more democratic money and banking system we all want to see. Here’s how we voted: Here’s how you want to get involved: You're [...]