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# Our “Everything-you-could-ever-want-to-know-about-the-Exeter-Pound” Podcast.
- URL: https://news.transitionnetwork.org/our-everything-you-could-ever-want-to-know-about-the-exeter-pound-podcast/
- Published: 2015-05-04T23:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-02T11:37:28.000Z
- Author: Transition Network international
- Tags: Blog, #Import 2026-03-17

A couple of weeks I took the short train ride to Exeter to meet Ian, Melanie, Adam, Martin and Gill, the group working hard to make the Exeter Pound a reality. With their launch set for September 1st I wanted to find out how’s it going. How did the idea come about? How did it step up to become a reality?

Did you know that a successful launch of the Exeter Pound is Exeter City Council’s second highest economic priority? Or what links a group of black gospel singers who toured England in the early 1800s, the Rugby World Cup and the Exeter Pound £15 note? Or the role New Economics Foundation’s ‘Clone Town Britain’ study had in inspiring the Pound? All is revealed in our “everything-you-could-ever-want-to-know-about-the-Exeter-Pound” podcast.

Here is the £5 note:

… and here’s the special limited edition £15 note …

Keep up with developments at www.exeterpound.org.uk.