Until recently, Rebecca Kinge worked for the Southampton Voluntary Services and is very well known for her community activism. I have been a fan of hers since I first attended the excellent event she organised, “How Sound is Your Pound?’, back in 2016, which explored the new concept of local currency with guests from the Bristol Pound movement and people from other cities, with a local currency. I believe that event might have inspired the city council to consider it a genuine option for Southampton, as a local currency would be a significant tool to keep the money in the city to benefit residents and people working here.

Since then, she has organised more events that I can list in a short nomination, from using art as a social prescribing activity to climate change debates and, more recently, an event about Doughnut economics, which brought together senior members of the council with representatives from Hampshire Chamber of Commerce and online participants from cities who started applying the principle of doughnut economics in their local governance. Without a doubt, she has earned the community legend status.