 We've been running about four years now. We're based just down the road from Angel in London But we have groups around the country and also another 15 groups internationally sister organizations There are four of us working on this full-time other people helping out volunteers, contractors and All of the local groups in the international groups who all give their time for free So really quite a big base of people who are who are trying to make this happen The issue we have today is that all money that we use is created By banks high street banks when they lend and what that means is that we have a money system That is based on debt So if we want more money then we also have to have more debt and that results in a whole series of problems Positive money is really about trying to change the financial system so it works for society and not against it We're trying to look at the way that money is created by the banking system and the effect that has on debt and poverty unaffordable housing inequality and the whole range of other social problems that we're facing at the moment I'm quite passionate about what positive money is trying to do because Number one I got caught up in the big party that was going on before 2007 everyone's investing in property borrowing too much money That happened to me And I'm now in a position where I owe Far more money than I'd like to and I think looking back. I probably shouldn't have borrowed it I shouldn't have been allowed to so I think that's something flawed in the system We think this is a big problem And we think that actually the power to create money shouldn't be privately owned money shouldn't be created as debt I think that actually the parts create money should be returned to the people essentially power to create money should be used in the Public interest and the people that create money should be the Bank of England And it should be done in a democratically Accountable manner in a transparent manner. I just feel that it's like the common denominator of so many different problems I guess it's I think one issue that if we could change it it would just automatically resolve so many different Problems that we're facing Today's really about what the individual Gets out of it themselves. How much effort they've put in is inevitably how much they've gotten out That's what I've taken you find some people who are very pessimistic Some people who don't think things are possible and then you find people who are flexible who have a can-do attitude or kind of like Oh, you know what? Oh, we can't meet on this day. We can maybe we can do this or oh, we're all geographically dispersed But hey, we can do something about it. I think it's helpful to bring people together to share ideas What's happening across the country to meet new people I've met a few people today that were very concerned about the issues raised by positive money in my area that I didn't even know existed I think it's important for a number of reasons one is to retain that momentum from supporters and perhaps develop new supporters as well To to help those understand the principles that don't already in people like me or relatively new to the concepts I think it's also important to learn lessons from one another and to think about where to go next and to use the Broad range of skills and experiences in the room today to do that to the to the best effect If only positive money could get over this one idea Money, where does it come from and then the next point of course is it's our money? And shouldn't we decide what's to be done with it? We know it's a huge change that we're trying to achieve But the thing is is that we've already got over 22,000 people on board after only going for a few years and with such a radical thing we're proposing. That's really exciting We've got groups in 19 different countries that want to try and change their own money system in their country And we're all fighting for the same cause and we can share and help each other to be able to kind of communicate What we're trying to do We should be optimistic because firstly things do need to change politicians and the people in charge running out of ideas and that there's more and more Discussion in the press and then policy circles and amongst general public about these fundamental problems with money and that needs change