Community Credits
A verified way of recording and recognising acts of community contribution made through the IIC platform.
Community Credits are earned whenever individuals, businesses or organisations give time, skills, goods or funding through the IIC platform.
Each action is verified before Credits are issued. That verification creates a reliable and lasting record of support that has genuinely taken place.
Community Credits provide a consistent way to measure and recognise social value and act as a record of real activity.
How Community Credits work
Community Credits are generated through verified activity on the IIC platform. They cannot be purchased or transferred. They are only issued once an action has been completed and validated.Credits are applied using a standardised rate structure so that all contributions are measured fairly. This ensures that different types of support are recognised appropriately while maintaining consistency across the platform.
The current Community Credit rates:
Financial donations
1 Community Credit per £1 donated
Volunteering time
10 Community Credits per hour
Skilled pro bono support
30 Community Credits per hour
Gifts of items
Credits are allocated in line with a published rate card within the platform, covering different categories of donated goods.
Why verification matters
Community support often happens informally. Time is given, skills are shared, funding is raised — but much of it is not recorded in a consistent way.
Without verification, contribution is easy to overlook.
Community Credits ensure that support given through the IIC platform is logged, validated and visible. Over time, those Credits build into a cumulative record of community action.
That record is practical. It allows individuals, charities and organisations to evidence contribution clearly, rather than relying on retrospective summaries or internal tracking alone.
What Community Credits represent
Because Community Credits create a verified record of real community action, they do more than recognise support in the moment.
As contributions build over time, they form a clear and ongoing picture of what has been given across different causes and communities.
That record is the foundation of the Community Economy, a vision built on a simple principle: if contribution already exists, it should be visible and capable of playing a more meaningful role over time.
Community Credits make that possible by creating the structure first.
From there, we are developing what will become the Community Value Exchange. This work explores how verified contribution could, in time, be used in practical ways rather than remaining solely as a record.
If you are interested in helping shape what comes next, please get in touch.
Interested in learning more?
If you’d like to learn more about the platform or explore how your organisation could get involved, please get in touch.