About Spice
Our passion is developing credit systems that engage and empower the many rather than the few.

Spice develops credit systems for engaging people and to create active thriving community and public services.

Spice’s community credit systems have been tried and tested and are uniquely successful in dramatically increasing participation of community members in public services and in achieving community transformation.

Spice has strong supporting evidence based on 6 years development work that this is the most effective, low cost and sustainable method of increasing engagement and community participation.

Spice is the only organisation in the UK which designs and develops this community credit system to support active participation and engagement of people in communities and in working co-productively with public services.





The History of Spice

Spice began life as an institute within the University of Wales, Newport. Over a 6 year period the community credit systems developed became increasingly successful in achieving neighbourhood cohesion and engaging people in community services. Spice has now spun-out as an independent organisation and with the support of the university and of the Young Foundation in London we are now developing these applications across England and Wales. For more information on our history please refer to the report ‘Spice, Looking Back’ 

 


Spice Training & Support

Spice time credit systems can simply and affordably be integrated into public and community services. Spice provides training and support to community and public service organisations that wish to develop this with their community.

Spice Principles
  1. Know Your Assets
    Successful engagement of people, relies upon finding out what interests them and what they are able and willing to contribute     
     
  2. Create a 2 Way Street
    Thanking people for their contribution, increases the number of people involved and redefines the way services are delivered 
  3. Look Upstream
    Engaging people ‘upstream’ eases pressure on ‘downstream’ resources focused on problem solving and dependency



Spice Development

Spice looks for funding for pilots from progressive grant making organisations committed to engaging people.