Last Week Bristol Pound team went to The Community Farm for a team building event facilitated by Dan Start. Dan is one of the South Wests best known writers and publishers about all things wild and The Community Farm is an award winning Coop producing fresh foods for people and businesses around Bristol. Both Ian Sumpter at The Community Farm and Dan helped us out for free for which we are so grateful.
The Bristol pound Team started as almost exclusively voluntary, but as of the beginning of 2014 the team have been successful in bringing a major EU, Tudor Trust and Technology Strategy Board funding to Bristol to help develop the scheme along professional lines. Making such a change is not so simple however and we wanted to stay in touch with the voluntary spirit and the values that underpin the teams work and the scheme as a whole.