CCIA Partners

Amsterdam East Municipality: a local authority serving 112,000 residents of a long-deprived area of Amsterdam. Committed to investing in social, urban and economic issues, Amsterdam East supports the Makkie, a CCIA pilot currency seeking to build community engagement and empower citizens to create the change they want for their community.

Crédit Municipal de Nantes: a publicly owned enterprise with an economic and social mission, offering credit and mutual savings schemes to residents of the city of Nantes. Crédit Municipal de Nantes plays a strategic role in improving the quality of life of the community it serves and manages the SoNantes, a CCIA-supported currency.

Lambeth Council: a local authority in South London, UK. In collaboration with CCIA and the Brixton Pound, Lambeth Council is working to integrate the community currency into council services and promote its wide usage. This collaboration is an integral part of Lambeth’s aim to become Britain’s first Co-operative Council – meaning that it will work with local people to design, manage, and deliver services together.

Limburg.net: an inter-municipal, publicly owned waste-disposal company responsible for waste prevention and collection in the province of Limburg and the city of Diest. Together with CCIA, Limburg. net expanded their community currency, the e-Portemonnee, to encourage environmentally sustainable practices by individuals and businesses across the whole region.

New Economics Foundation (NEF): a UK think-tank promoting social, economic and environmental justice. NEF is the UK’s leading not-for-profit research institute in the study of money, credit and complementary currencies. Within CCIA, NEF have led on evaluation and communications methods, research into legal and compliance issues, and the production of the collaborative online tool: community-currency.info.

Qoin: a Dutch social enterprise, specialising in the design and implementation of community currencies. As part of CCIA, Qoin have developed a flexible and functional software platform, Qoinware, that is currently used by several community currencies, including the SoNantes and the Brixton Pound. They also launched their own co-operatively owned business-to-business CCIA pilot currency: TradeQoin.

Spice: a social enterprise originating in Wales but now working across the UK, Spice develops agency time-credit systems for communities and public- and voluntary-sector agencies. Having already proven highly successful in addressing inequalities, building stronger communities and empowering citizens, Spice’s programmes are being scaled up in partnership with CCIA.

Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA): the voice of the voluntary sector in Wales, representing and campaigning for voluntary organisations, individuals and communities. WCVA is lead partner for CCIA and has monitored the operations of the partnership, as well as co-ordinating member organisations.