Local Finance and LLP partnerships

Local Government has been encouraging local community groups to get involved in peer to peer finance schemes, creating local currency, (having tried and failed with LETS schemes) and forming new local partnerships, but are they working?

Questions are being raised already

http://www.reconomyproject.org/?p=3691

Here are other proposals/explanations on a theme

http://www.slideshare.net/ChrisJCook/equity-shares-a-solution-to-th...

http://www.slideshare.net/ChrisJCook/partnership-finance-october-2010

http://www.slideshare.net/ChrisJCook/money-30

Could this be the same ChrisJCook?

http://seekingalpha.com/user/388343/profile

Funny,

I see no mention of the Lawful Bank!

Aitch :)