Positive Money
London- and Brussels-based advocacy organisation (founded 2010 in response to the 2008 crisis) campaigning to strip private banks of debt-based money creation in favour of 'sovereign money', democratise central banking, and green monetary policy. Donation-funded, ~10 staff plus a separate EU entity; its founder went on to the Bank of England and BIS; credited with pushing the BoE toward greening QE (2021) and climate criteria in its collateral framework (2026).
The flagship English-language monetary-reform organisation: fifteen years of campaigning for debt-free sovereign money with measurable central-bank influence. It is advocacy, not money — no issuance, no stability mechanism, fiat-centric by definition — so it scores low on a framework built for currencies while remaining an essential node on the fair-money map. The GiveDirectly precedent applied to reform advocacy: the low score is information, not a defect.
M69 Score
Scored against the Money2069 Manifesto — see methodology. Higher = more aligned.
Detailed Rating Breakdown
Issuance Model3x2.0
Issues nothing itself; its advocated reform is debt-free money creation — the core M69 commandment — but in state-monopoly form (central bank as sole issuer), and none of it is implemented as a working system.
Spending Power Stability2x2.0
No currency and no mechanism; its research explicitly distinguishes short-term price stability from long-term purchasing power, but all stability work is advocacy, not operation.
Fiat Independence & Interoperability2x1.0
Fully fiat-centric by design — the mission is reforming state money from within, not building independence from it.
Traction2x3.0
15+ years of continuous operation; tens of thousands of supporters (1,400+ answered the January 2026 supporter survey); real policy influence: BoE greening QE (2021), climate criteria in the BoE collateral framework (June 2026), registered EU lobbyist; heavily cited in academia and major media. No currency, so zero monetary traction (TR-04/05 floor).
Sovereignty2.0
An ordinary UK company limited by guarantee plus a Brussels entity — jurisdiction-bound, trivially shutdownable, nothing self-hostable.
Governance3.0
Conventional NGO board plus annual supporter surveys that visibly steer priorities; finances published; no member sovereignty or binding community process.
Resilience3.0
Survived 15 years and multiple leadership transitions on grant/donation funding with a 1–3 year horizon; the reform movement it anchors would outlive the organisation.
Inclusivity4.0
Free to participate; campaigns explicitly for universal access to money (cash access, public banking options, racial economic justice); benefits are policy outcomes rather than distributed value.