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 [...]
This webinar looks at how a Co-op model can be an option to address major environmental and social challenges, and will discuss how you can take an idea and inspire a community, and the steps that need to be taken to convert an idea into reality. These ideas can be turned into projects to [...]
Join Plunkett business adviser Mark McTaggart in conversation with the Antwerp Arms pub group, the local community group running this urban pub in the heart of its diverse community in Tottenham, to hear about their journey to community ownership. This free webinar was hosted by Plunkett Foundation on 13th October 2020, and was funded [...]
Community engagement is key to the success of any community based enterprise. This webinar, led by Morven Lyon from Community Shares Scotland, explores methods of consulting and engaging your community. Examples include original and inspiring cases of effective community engagement – providing you with creative ideas and resources to apply to your community run [...]
This webinar and the associated resource look at steps that community businesses can take to try and predict future problems and make plans for them, including ideas around how diversification might help create a resilient business. The webinar, presented by Plunkett's Community Business Manager, Alison Macklin, and Plunkett adviser, Charlotte Foster, asks community businesses [...]
This webinar and the associated resource look at key considerations for community businesses to make when working with suppliers. The webinar, hosted by Plunkett's Community Business Manager, Alison Macklin, discusses how good suppliers are essential to a successful community business in terms of the quality of stock and potential profit. The webinar considers [...]
Becoming a member of the Plunkett Foundation means you join a growing number of like minded people and organisations all working together to help communities set up and run community businesses as a way of overcoming a range of challenges. Plunkett's membership manager Claire Spendley looks at the benefits of joining a gorwing number o like-minded people and organisations.
Join Plunkett business adviser Hilary Sudbury in conversation with Stockland Community Pub Group, the local community group running the village pub The King's Arms, 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 [...]
Margaret Clark, out going chair of the Plunkett Foundation, thanks members, supporters, funders and partners as she stands down after seven years.
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 [...]
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