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Good practice: diversifying services and setting a strategy for the future

2021-01-24T18:33:28+00:00

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 [...]

Good practice: diversifying services and setting a strategy for the future2021-01-24T18:33:28+00:00

Good practice: connecting with local suppliers

2021-01-24T18:48:41+00:00

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 [...]

Good practice: connecting with local suppliers2021-01-24T18:48:41+00:00

How the Hopkins Plunkett scheme helped village shops

2021-01-29T13:06:47+00:00

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.

How the Hopkins Plunkett scheme helped village shops2021-01-29T13:06:47+00:00

Virtual Study Visit: The Kings Arms, Stockland

2021-01-24T20:16:48+00:00

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 [...]

Virtual Study Visit: The Kings Arms, Stockland2021-01-24T20:16:48+00:00

An introduction to using Zoom for an AGM/AMM

2021-01-28T11:18:18+00:00

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 [...]

An introduction to using Zoom for an AGM/AMM2021-01-28T11:18:18+00:00

Virtual Study Visit: The Ploughshare, Norfolk

2021-01-24T18:57:35+00:00

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 [...]

Virtual Study Visit: The Ploughshare, Norfolk2021-01-24T18:57:35+00:00

Good practice: upgrading physical spaces to keep staff and customers safe during Covid-19

2021-01-24T19:00:24+00:00

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 [...]

Good practice: upgrading physical spaces to keep staff and customers safe during Covid-192021-01-24T19:00:24+00:00

Funding from the National Lottery Community Fund comes at just the right time for rural community businesses

2021-02-08T14:54:50+00:00

Since the outbreak of Covid-19, Plunkett has seen some of its busiest time responding to enquiries from Community Businesses. Many of the businesses we are supporting are finding they’re in the same boat and Plunkett have endeavoured to be on hand to help steady the ship and re-set the compass, ready to navigate [...]

Funding from the National Lottery Community Fund comes at just the right time for rural community businesses2021-02-08T14:54:50+00:00

Re-opening after lockdown – how was it for you?

2021-01-24T20:38:38+00:00

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? [...]

Re-opening after lockdown – how was it for you?2021-01-24T20:38:38+00:00
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