Summary of Plunkett's response to the consultation on the English portion of dormant assets funding Plunkett Foundation has responded to the consultation on the English portion of dormant assets funding, representing the views of rural community-owned businesses. The consultation follows the passing of the Dormant Assets Act, earlier this year and will [...]
James Alcock, Plunkett's Chief Executive shares the Better Business research at the House of Lords. The Better form of Business reports, providing an annual 'state of the sector' for the UK's community-owned shops and pubs was launched earlier this week at the House of Lords, on Monday afternoon. In a reception which [...]
Harriet English, Head of Engagement provides an insight to our work in Birmingham earlier this week. Birmingham looked magnificent in the sunshine as we arrived for the Conservative Party Conference on Monday morning. With it taking place at the grand International Convention Centre (ICC), which is right next to the amazing new [...]
Joe Hesketh, Plunkett's Data Manager provides an update on our refreshed directory of assets of community value Launched in January 2022, Keep it in the Community (KIITC) is an online database of all community assets in England, such as pubs, shops and land, that have been nominated or registered as an Asset of [...]
Chris Cowcher, Head of Policy shares his experience of being in Liverpool earlier this week. What a week it has been. Following on from the Government’s fiscal event last week and all that has followed since, we’ve found ourselves in party conference season. James Alcock (our CEO) and I have been in [...]
Chris Cowcher, Head of Policy sets out a key policy ambition for Plunkett to support sector growth UK-wide. Download: Plunkett policy position statement - UK Community Right to Buy Earlier this year, when we were completing our research in to why the community-owned pub business model had not been adopted in many [...]
James Alcock, Plunkett Foundation’s Chief Executive responds to the announced energy price support for businesses. “After weeks of uncertainty and having received a growing number of calls from our members, expressing their concerns about the rising energy prices we were pleased to hear yesterday’s news, setting out a package of support for [...]
Plunkett’s Head of Policy and Communications, Chris Cowcher shares his views on Levelling Up as part of the launch of our new Strategy. Last week Plunkett launched a new 5 year strategy, with an ambition to grow the rural community business sector by 20% by 2026. The strategy was shared with members [...]
Plunkett’s Chief Executive, James Alcock, responds to the cost of living and energy price crises facing community-owned businesses. We are seeing so much in the media about individual households being affected by the energy price crisis, and calls on government to help, but we know from first-hand, that businesses are affected too [...]
Plunkett Foundation is currently considering our response to a consultation about how the English portion of dormant assets funding should benefit broad social or environmental causes. The consultation runs until Sunday 9 October 2022, more information can be read via this link and we are keen to hear the views of our [...]
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