Freelending Community Interest Company has been set up by Paul Crosland and Edmund Johnson to promote the many benefits of borrowing and lending - benefits to individuals, communities and the biosphere - and to provide people with tools which will enable them to borrow and lend more easily.
These pages include much of our preparations for launching the freelender.org website in the summer of 2009 and planning ahead to the later modifications of the site. You are welcome to join in the evolution of the business plan and marketing strategy. Email us (via Mediation Support Ltd's website) and we'll send you a copy of the next version of the borrowing and lending tips which we're preparing. This will sharpen up the succeses of your borrowing and lending, even to your close friends and family!
Why not also tell us a story from which others can learn the benefits of sensible lending and/or reckless lending?
(See the side bar to the right for further links to work in progress and other relevant sites for those building the generosity economy.)
If you want to make any further suggestions to add to our plans, just click edit on any page on this site, and together we'll spread generosity.
Draft Leaflet text:
To get what you really want
why not a borrower or a lender be?
We all know the benefits of borrowing or lending - building or deepening our relationships with friends, families, neighbours and those with whom we share interests.
With the 'credit crunch' and all that's going on in the world, doesn't lending & borrowing make more sense now than ever before? Yes/No/Perhaps
Think of a time that you have lent something or borrowed something and enjoyed what came of it! Share your story with us, the freelender community, and we'll publish the ones that move us the most and learn from all your other experiences.
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[Your story here, on a seperate page at our freepost address or fill in the survey on freelender.org]...........
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It's fine by us if “you don't do the web”; we just want you to get the benefits of borrowing and lending and so we've printed this leaflet.
If you “do the web”, why not subscribe to freelender.org email updates to receive an uplifting story once in a while and tips for a life with more mutual support and generosity around you.
Have you got any 'top tips' to add to the list we've put together (overleaf)?
If you want to see how well your borrowing or lending is going for you, and how you might even more satisfying results, please choose a period of time and estimate how many items you've lent in either a day/ a week/ a month or a year.
Sensible Borrowing & Lending Tips
Agree the return date for the lend: [Tick box] No of times I did this? [ …]
Agree the value of the item that was lent:
Etc....
[More tips online at freelender.org
-you can also add your tips too online or to our freepost address.....................................]
Reckless Borrowing & Lending Tips
Not considering the track-record of the person who is borrowing?
Not having a standard agreement about how repairs or replacement might be done.
Etc....
If you provide us with the first half of your postcode this will help us to find funders who will invest in promoting lending & borrowing in your community.
Postcode (eg BS7) ….......
Likewise Age group....... Gender.........
Are you interested in doing any of these things to promote lending & borrowing in any of the communities where you work, socialise or recharge your batteries?:
- giving something back that you've borrowed longer than you agreed?
- contacting someone who's borrowed something to extend their agreed lending?
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make a list of things you've currently lent/borrowed?
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make a list of things you don't use every day (and think about how you could get the benefits of lending out some of them)?
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put a wishlist of DVDs, books, music, tools, bikes, tandems or whatever onto freelender.org (or pass the list around neighbours)?
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hold a freelender party in your house or community centre and invite neighbours (more information on-line about how to do this to maximum satisfaction)?
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arrange to co-ordinate a short or longer freelender training?
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print out this web page and hand copies to friends?
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write your own leaflet?
- chat to someone about what your both think helps you get what you want by borrowing and lending?
- Try this mock-up version of the forthcoming (Summer 2009) website: http://mockup.freelender.org/
- and please spend a further 2 minutes or so providing feedback as to what you made of how it will work.
Help out with Freelender Development:
You can help by responding to any of our requests for assistance - be part of the Freelender development, whether it's to enhance your CV or to save humanity from death by mass consumption; join in with what we're doing now.
PLEASE PRINT AND CIRCULATE THIS PAGE TO INVOLVE OTHERS IN THIS PROJECT OF GENEROSITY & COMMUNITY RESILIENCE.
Your comments on our strapline are welcome:
freelender.org - sharing the wealth of the community
(Does this strapline work for you? What do you prefer?)
Read and add to the freelender Development Plan here
If you want to start editing our plans we will need your email address to add you to the list of those who can edit.
You can join in the editing -or just send in a comment on this simple form (hosted by mediationsupport.info) here
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