Harmony Hall Sovereign Credit Membership
My idea for membership is to support and educate businesses in becoming sustainable, financially and environmentally. Please contact me to define your own membership package, which might combine a review of a tender submission and a visit to Harmony Hall to assess its suitability for a workshop, or a package with more of a focus on Training needs than on funding.
Is this membership for us?
If your business becomes a part of Ireland’s first public bank, it need only be a small investment but the dividends will benefit your business and your customers for ever.
All current funding streams are through Climate action and the Just transition. If these were passed through a public bank they would be multiplied. Furthermore, nothing would be taken offshore. All the investments and credit created from these original reserves would be spent in the county, none would be taken off shore.
Many businesses are not that interested in their environmental impact either! More often, there’s a manager and staff who are but a long-standing board of directors who can’t let change happen. This site is for those managers. The ones who need someone to work out what a roadmap for their company’s sustainability journey could look like; people who need to explain why a green transition means opportunities and investments will follow, rather than costs; Sales managers who need to improve a company’s reputation and make founded claims for their products and know their supply chain inside out. CEOs who have the values but do not have the time to work out the savings that would be made by a better use of resources or to train staff; And nearly everyone who can’t afford to time-block employee hours to do this research.
Option 1: Help with tenders and finding public contracts to suit your business - €250/annum
Green funding opportunities and contracts from eTenders and other national and international programmes
Consultation on contracts
Review of completed tender responses, for further alignment with what the funding body’s are looking for
Training elements for any sector. Can include science, well-being, regulations, solutions, best practice and in-house change management.
Fresh Perspectives on how to finance and green your business.
Option 2: Management Retreat for Planning & Staff Training - €250/annum
Corporate Planning: Companies can use the Kilkenny venue for project planning meetings, up to 6 people. Harmony Hall is of a bio-architecture design to facilitate problem solving.
Management Retreat: Harmony Hall is built on sustainable principles and is fully organic. It has two double guest rooms and members can enjoy an overnight stay and dinner.
Staff Training & Wellbeing Workshops, up to 15 people.
A ‘thought for the day’, from my audio book, to your email or staff, to develop clear thinking and leadership capacity.
Option 3: Co-create Public Banks - Sign-up For News
Republic of Ireland Bank. Connect with the Public Banking Initiative directly
Private & Public Banking explained
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Benefits for your business in a 'Green Transition'
My number one priority for members is making them eligible for funding. It doesn’t matter what business you are in. I just apply myself to considering your processes and supply chain and thinking how we can make it more LEAN and more green. I know they say that ‘if you talk the talk, you have to walk the walk’, but I believe talking about sustainability and including a few indicators in your applications that you are aware of your environmental and social impacts is a good start. And should be enough to win those contracts too.
There is no requirement for member to take any action. All you are doing is planting the seed of knowledge, awareness, options, impacts, solutions and socio economic business acumen and understanding; watering it each week with a little attention, new information and interest and let fertile imaginations do the rest. If, though, members do want to do something and want to know if there are pots of money available for such work, that can also be part of the service. What is there in public banking for you?
Many businesses are not that interested in economics and see their debt and interest as an inevitable part of banking. But it is not true and people must get empowered to demand a public bank. I am going to do my best to get people excited about monetary reform. Imagine a non-profit bank with the power of credit creation. Imagine it having a sustainability lending criteria, specifying the types of enterprise it would prioritize and able to refuse damaging projects and proposals. Already there are financial supports for business greening and financial recovery from the pandemic but companies still need a plan to be eligible for green funding.
Option 1: Help with tenders and finding public contracts to suit your business - €250/annum
Green funding opportunities and contracts from eTenders and other national and international programmes
Consultation on contracts
Review of completed tender responses, for further alignment with what the funding body’s are looking for
Training elements for any sector. Can include science, well-being, regulations, solutions, best practice and in-house change management.
Fresh Perspectives on how to finance and green your business.
Option 2: Management Retreat for Planning & Staff Training - €250/annum
Corporate Planning: Companies can use the Kilkenny venue for project planning meetings, up to 6 people. Harmony Hall is of a bio-architecture design to facilitate problem solving.
Management Retreat: Harmony Hall is built on sustainable principles and is fully organic. It has two double guest rooms and members can enjoy an overnight stay and dinner.
Staff Training & Wellbeing Workshops, up to 15 people.
A ‘thought for the day’, from my audio book, to your email or staff, to develop clear thinking and leadership capacity.
Option 3: Co-create Public Banks - Sign-up For News
Republic of Ireland Bank. Connect with the Public Banking Initiative directly
Private & Public Banking explained
Financial Recovery & Public Banking Go Hand in Hand...or not at all.
Would you like a not-for-profit bank based in your own county, where you can put your money safely? If so, please choose a membership option that might suit your business. The first two involve my business consultancy (on line) and management retreat (venue) and the third is a link to directly engage in the public banking initiative.
My monetary reform partners and I are an incorruptible force and have two hundred and fifty years of experience between us. We are building just such a bank to financially protect people, including businesses negatively affected by Foreign Direct Investment or the pandemic.
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- The public banks will also protect homes with over-priced mortgages and everyone who still has some savings, but realize that, with the banks’ insolvency, those savings might be claimed for their reserve, while they call it a ‘liquidity crisis’. Regional public banks are the additional banking system that will make the difference for Irish people and businesses and we are giving you the opportunity to be in from the start.
- I have honed my skills in writing tender responses, since 2014. As a collective we have given our lives to working within the structures that exist of government, local authority and banks alike. Nonetheless, we are the 99%, the critical mass and we can and must empower ourselves and build these public banks independently or face the greatest recession in history: A terrible and unnecessary legacy for the next generation, both financially, food security and in taking care of our environment.
- This public bank, specifically for societal prosperity and protection will have an alternative measure to analyze and reporton its social impact. Instead of digitally controlled money, the Harmony Hall collective have returned to the idea of a golden peg: a physical reserve that the bank must hold, which is considered of equal value to the credit it creates and lends. (Consider it the opposite of mortgage providers currently: banks offering 30 year mortgages on houses that are priced sometime six or ten times their actual value). We identified Ireland’s most valuable resources as our water – rainfall, marine and fresh water reserves – Ireland’s land and our broadly skilled population. We intend to equip the people via a national education campaign to raise financial literacy and how to live and buy local and not keep the big corporations in business, as if our lives depend upon it. Our vision, a genuinely independent Ireland, in terms of food, energy and humanity.
- I have designed this consultancy to serve as a platform over e-tenders to keep an eye on the spending of public money. We suggested that the public bank measure its impact by members recording their growth through the National Biodiversity Data Hub and the EU Sustainable Development Goals Hub, which include social justice, public health as well as environmental impacts. They also use open-sourced software which is essential so that progress can be traces and harmful developments flagged up. We will see in the pilot programme if that is going to be possible.
Here are some of the EU Green Funding programmes’ links for further reading: