We have been working hard to review our membership strategy and to provide a structure that has one membership strand with different rates and varying access to benefits and fees for different profiles. We feel the emphasis should be on the type of relationship rather than status of a member.
On the 14th August, a very wet day for the season, Aimee Evans from Plunkett and Helen Fagan, grants manager for The Prince’s Countryside Fund splashed through the rural roads of Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire to visit three community shops.
Check out the recording of our webinar, led by Nathan Brown on Holding your first AGM.
Our next stop was Tackley village shop, where we met with Barbie and Andrew. Tackley are busy updating and refurbishing their shop, which opened in 2004.
Many rural parish and town councils will be familiar with the challenge of retaining local services such as shops and pubs in their communities.
Plunkett community shop members are registered with ACS’s assured advice scheme and have access to their guides that provide accredited standards for in-store procedures, such as health and safety or underage sales.
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We are excited to announce the return of major programme, ‘More Than a Pub’; a new round of support and finance that will help community groups across England looking to take ownership of their local pub for the benefit of the community.
Hear about the latest community shop to open in Hampshire following an opening ceremony with Lord Sainsbury.
Earlier this year, Plunkett’s Better Business reports highlighted an increase in closure rates of community shops for the first time.
