Plunkett's Chief Executive, James Alcock, shares our new Rural Vision Film and explains how community businesses can, and will be, at the beating heart of a much needed recovery of our rural towns and villages. The solutions to problems faced by rural communities can be found right at the heart [...]
More community owned businesses, such as shops and cafes, will be supported to open in churches across the UK thanks to a major funding boost. We are delighted to be working alongside Allchurches Trust, to provide the resources needed to encourage and facilitate churches to work closely with their wider community so that more [...]
Plunkett Foundation are proud to be working with Thakeham Homes, a sustainable, infrastructure-led, developer based in the South-East. Plunkett and Thakeham are working together to develop a partnership methodology to establish community businesses in the heart of their developments. Thakeham has long recognised the importance of creating cohesive communities and as well as [...]
Plunkett Foundation's Chief Executive, James Alcock, hosted an in conversation event to launch the 2020 Better Form of Business Reports. The reports provide an insight into the health of the community pub and community shop sectors, and capture the headline trends of 2019. Although based on 2019 data, the reports give an initial view [...]
Watch the recording of a Zoom call created for trading community pubs to discuss the rules and legislation around the lockdown, including the furlough scheme. The session was opportunity for pub groups to raise questions, discuss with peers and a panel of experts from the sector, share learnings from the previous lockdown and chat [...]
Plunkett’s response to the government’s Planning White Paper On 29th October 2020, the Plunkett Foundation submitted a response to government’s Planning White Paper, which proposes to ‘streamline and modernise’ England’s planning process. We were concerned at the lack of detail in some of the proposals and the negative effects they could have for rural communities, [...]
The Plunkett Foundation releases the 2020 ‘Better form of Business Reports’ on Community Pubs and Community Shops Rural community owned businesses were in robust health as Covid-19 hit, and displayed a unique innovation and flexibility to serve those who needed them when Britain was under national lockdown. Known [...]
Plunkett adviser, Corinna Hartwig, discusses ways that community businesses can stay digitally connected with members, volunteers and the wider community. Corinna encourages viewers to consider who makes up their local community, and suggests how to decide on messages, plan and schedule content using different digital tools. Corinna illustrates how to create digital newsletters, via platforms [...]
Jen Lobley from Acas discusses the stages of redundancy; including the legal requirements, the benefits of consultation, and how to calculate a redundancy payment. Jen will also touch on other aspects of employment law, such as ensuring your selection criteria isn’t discriminatory, and how much notice to give. This free webinar was hosted by [...]
This webinar and the associated resource look at steps that the management committee of a community shop can take to deal with financial issues and ensure good financial practice. The webinar, presented by Plunkett's Community Business Manager, Alison Macklin, discusses overheads and running costs, profit margins, and considerations around card/cash sales and stock. The [...]
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