Plugging the Leaks Workshops Plugg
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ng the Leaks workshops have been
adapted from a model developed originally by the New Economics Foundation and provide a participative and enjoyable way for local people to develop an understanding of their local area economy.
Plugging the Leaks
Minimising the leakage of money from the local economy by maximising the production of goods and services locally is only a good intention if local people have a deep understanding
of the nature and full
implications of the extent of the leakage and the actions they can individually and collectively take to minimise the drain on the local economy, and the benefits of doing so.
Through a series of facilitated activities, working individually and in groups, people identify the main flows of money both in and out of their local area economy, and start to develop leak-plugging ideas, which are grouped into themes on a pl
ug tr Irrigating the Desert
This is another tool developed by the New Economics Foundation that has proved to be extremely useful, in identifying opportunities for adding value. Working around a single theme – a project idea, for example – as the main flow of income or people or an activity generating money into the local economy, people look at how tributaries could be dug out to spread the benefit more widely, and then start to identify what spades would be required.
The aim is to irrigate the desert – in other words, maximise the benefit of the single income or economic stream so that it has the optimum effect on the local area economy. Irri
gating the Desert has been highly effective in encouraging
creative thinking and in developing linkages that might otherwise have been missed. (details of Plugging the Leaks workshops Appendix 2).
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The Plug Tree
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