Inspiration list

Here are some ideas for goods and services you can trade:

GOODS
  1. Garden produce such as fruit and vegetables, eggs, honey
  2. Pick your own fruit and veg
  3. Free range eggs
  4. Goats milk and yoghurt
  5. Honey/beeswax
  6. Herbs
  7. Jam, chutney, preserved/frozen/bottled fruit and veg
  8. Extra seedlings
  9. Manure
  10. Homemade cakes/ celebration cakes
  11. Pictures and photographs
  12. Cushion covers
  13. Knitted products
  14. Pottery
  15. Restored junk furniture
USE OF EQUIPMENT
  1. Popcorn maker
  2. Chocolate fountain
  3. Fondue
  4. Fish steamer
  5. Preserving pans
  6. Food mixers
  7. Icing equipment
  8. Bbq
  9. Carpet cleaner
  10. Mower
  11. Strimmer
  12. Roller
  13. Sprayer
  14. Wallpaper steamer
  15. Leaf shredder
  16. Mixer
  17. Skip
  18. Scaffolding
  19. Chain saw
  20. Tractor/digger
  21. Trailer
  22. Wheel barrow
  23. Gazebo
  24. Power hose
  25. Ladders
  26. Extra garden furniture for a party or wedding
  27. Ski clothing or equipment
  28. Cameras and photographic equipment
  29. Kiln or pottery wheel
  30. Camping equipment
  31. Tent
  32. Marquee
  33. Caravan
  34. Motorhome
SERVICES Home
  1. Baby sitting
  2. Dog sitting/walking
  3. Shopping
  4. Help choosing/buying presents
  5. Cleaning: general, windows, cookers
  6. Washing up
  7. Returning library books
  8. Ironing
  9. Help moving house
  10. Help with children’s parties
  11. Help cleaning up after parties
  12. Extra help when you are ill
  13. Baking a celebration cake
  14. Making jam, chutney, preserved/frozen/bottled fruit and veg with excess produce
  15. Moving furniture
  16. Taking rubbish to the tip
  17. Delivering items
  18. Waiting in for a parcel delivery
  19. Waiting in for a tradesman
  20. Collecting children from school and nursery occasionally in emergencies
  21. Helping children with reading
  22. Sewing and mending
  23. Repairing clothes
  24. Making curtains
  25. Knitting
  26. Helping make children’s costumes
  27. Fathoming out how TV/SKY/Freesat/DVD/HiFi/Broadband works/set up
  28. Lifts to the supermarket, station, airport or work
  29. Lift given as part of a routine journey, say to work
Garden
  1. Gardening
  2. Weeding
  3. Lawn mowing
  4. Digging
  5. Hedge laying
  6. Fencing
  7. Laying paths, patios, decking
  8. Building sheds
  9. Building composters
  10. Chopping logs
  11. Clearing out gutters
  12. Teaching people gardening
  13. Looking after/watering plants during holidays
  14. Use part of my garden as your allotment
DIY
  1. Painting and decorating
  2. DIY
  3. Wall papering
  4. Stripping wallpaper, floors, wood
  5. Upholstery
  6. Teaching people DIY skills
  7. Tiling
  8. China repairs
  9. Putting up shelves
  10. Unblocking drains
  11. Energy saving advice
  12. Sharpening knives/saws/chisels
  13. Household repairs
Specialist skills
  1. Showing people how to use a computer, send an email, tweet, use Facebook etc
  2. Legal advice
  3. Accounting
  4. Discounts on products by charging 50% cash 50% Chets
  5. Home tuition
  6. Pottery lessons
  7. Translation verbal and written
  8. Videoing for events
  9. Live sound recording
  10. Help filling in forms
  11. Typing and printing letters
  12. Work experience
  13. Hairdressing
  14. Make up for a special occasion
  15. Disco or band hire
  16. Marketing small business
  17. Picture framing
Accommodation
  1. House “swap”
  2. Having people to stay over as house guests/bed and breakfast
  3. Having people to stay over camping in garden
  4. Practice room for band
  5. Storage in attic, garage, cellar, shed
  6. Grazing for horses, goats, cattle, sheep etc
  7. Stabling for horses

For services, any additional costs such as petrol, paint, ingredients, seeds, etc would be paid for by the purchaser. The LETS covers the time.

If you are providing services that are part of your normal paid employment, there may be some tax issues, please see FAQs