James Alcock, Chief Executive reflects on Plunkett's first major conference since 2019 Last week, we held Plunkett’s first national conference since 2019 for the benefit of all forms of rural community business and our key stakeholders. I couldn’t have been prouder of our team for pulling off such a fantastic event. We [...]
James Alcock, Chief Executive reflects on the Future Countryside event held at Hatfield House I was honoured to represent our members at the Future Countryside conference held at Hatfield House earlier this week, co-chaired by rural champions Nick Herbert and Julian Glover. The event had keynote speeches from political leaders including Rory [...]
Plunkett's project manager, Susie Middleton shares her thoughts on youth loneliness ahead of Loneliness Awareness Week 2023. There’s a lot of hard work going on, all year round, up and down the country to raise awareness of loneliness and at the same time reduce the stigma that surrounds it. But the fact [...]
As part of Plunkett's ambition to support more community businesses to set up in active places of worship we are delighted to announce the first group in Scotland to benefit from a grant, thanks to our programme of support funded by Benefact Trust. In late 2020, Plunkett Foundation was awarded £200,000 by [...]
Chris Cowcher, Head of Policy and Communications joins in with the community celebrations at the latest pub to open under community-ownership. The ambition of local residents in the North Yorkshire village of Skeeby, to become owners of their local pub, has been become a reality after a battle of nearly 15 years. [...]
Georgina Edwards, Plunkett's Policy and Research Manager provides an update on Plunkett's response to the Scottish Government consultation on Community Wealth Building. Last week Plunkett Foundation responded to a consultation by the Scottish Government on the implementation of Community Wealth Building. We drew attention to ways of supporting community businesses to set [...]
Where have the Plunkett team been in the first quarter of the year? In 2022, Plunkett published a report which considered where are the “hot” and “cold” spots for community-owned businesses UK-wide. The research, which was produced independently by Scotland Rural College’s Rural Policy Centre, used Plunkett’s operational reach as the basis [...]
Some welcome news in Jeremy Hunt’s spring budget 2023 but the crisis has not gone away, there are still many in need. The headlines of getting people “back to work” may well be the focus in today’s papers, but for many community-owned businesses that Plunkett represents there were still questions unanswered in [...]
Plunkett responds to the announcement that a Community Wealth Fund will be included in an expanded Dormant Assets scheme Last October, Plunkett Foundation along with 3,300 other organisations and individuals submitted written evidence to the Government consultation on the future of the Dormant Assets Scheme. Since its inception over a decade ago [...]
The only face-to-face conference for every rural community business Thursday 6 July IET Birmingham, Austin Court Book now We want you to join community businesses, industry experts, specialist business advisers and sector partners for a lively day of [...]
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