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Plunkett Foundation’s Community Business Manager, Alison Macklin, introduces the basics of using Zoom for an AGM or AMM. In light of changes of legislation due to Covid-19, AGMs/AMMs have been allowed to be postponed or held digitally. Every year the management committee of a community business must hold a AMM within 6 months of [...]

Join Plunkett business adviser Phil Harriss in conversation with Beeston Community Enterprises, the local community group running the Beeston village pub The Ploughshare, to hear about their journey to community ownership. This free webinar was hosted by Plunkett Foundation on 22nd September 2020, and was funded by Power to Change as a More Than [...]

This webinar and the associated resource look at methods that community businesses can use to improve and upgrade their physical space in light of Covid-19 in order to comply with legislation, and to ensure that staff and customers feel safe. The webinar, hosted by Plunkett's Community Business Manager, Alison Macklin, outlines key considerations and [...]

Experienced Plunkett advisers, Dave Hollings (from The Dog Inn) and Peter Austin, hosted this webinar following the pub closures due to the Covid-19 lockdown. Dave and Peter question what has gone well and what hasn't? How have customers behaved? How has trade been? What’s it like to be trading in a local intervention area? [...]

This webinar and the associated resource look at the fundamentals of managing both paid staff and volunteers within community businesses, with the aim helping to meet legal and best practice responsibilities, as well as promoting good working relationships. The webinar, hosted by Plunkett's Community Business Manager, Alison Macklin, and Jen Lobley from Acas covers [...]

Check out the recording of our webinar, led by Nathan Brown on Holding your first AGM.