A growing network of people on the NSW Central Coast of Australia who participate in a system of alternative trading known as LETS. LETS is a community based non-profit trading system that enables its members to exchange a wide variety of goods and services using little or no cash. It is a method of trading which depends on energy, skills and time instead of money, exchanging a unit of local currency (Shell), not as an alternative to conventional money but to complement the current system of trade.