Plunkett’s Community Business Manager, Diane Cameron, explores what environmental action means in rural communities According to our latest Impact Report, 96% of rural community businesses took some form of climate action over the past year. To those of us working at Plunkett, this is no surprise: the interest and proactivity [...]
Thorndon Community Shop, run by local volunteers, marked 14 years of trading with a visit from local Member of Parliament, Adrian Ramsay We were delighted to join Adrian Ramsay MP at Thorndon Community Shop to celebrate its impressive milestone of 14 years of trading. During the visit, we had the opportunity [...]
We’re proud to celebrate Almondsbury and Appleton Community Shops, both recently honoured with The King’s Award for Voluntary Service - the highest national accolade awarded to volunteer-led groups across the UK. At Plunkett, we know that volunteers are the driving force behind the success of community-owned businesses. People’s passion, commitment, and [...]
Member of Parliament for Tatton, Esther McVey, was invited to a local community-owned business in Styal, Cheshire as it celebrated its 11th anniversary since opening Earlams Community Store and Café is much more than a village café – it is owned and run by the village as community shareholders, and [...]
Government Minister Alex Norris saw community business in action during his visit to the Woodgate Community Shop in West Sussex last week (17 July). The shop is a unique community-led initiative located within Woodgate, a new community built by Thakeham, an industry-leading housebuilder, in joint venture with Abri, one of [...]
Plunkett's Impact Officer, George Ogier, explores what equity, diversity, and inclusion means for rural communities The World Health Organisation defines equity in part as: “the absence of unfair, avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people”. The idea of striving to ensure that everyone is afforded the same opportunities should [...]
Hear from Patrick Marks, who reflects on his week of work experience with us, and what he learnt about the community business sector As a student going into my second year of A levels with an interest in doing history at University (particularly in social history), work experience at Plunkett [...]
The outstanding achievements of our rural community business members and the individuals that make them shine were recognised last night (Thursday 3 July). Nine community businesses or individuals were winners at the 2025 Rural Community Business Awards, sponsored by Lands Improvement and held at the Royal Society of Chemistry [...]
The visit to The Green Gram in Hampshire demonstrates how this collaboration is supporting sustainable and inclusive community businesses. Plunkett’s partnership with Southern Co-op continues to go from strength to strength. In 2024 alone, we responded to more than twice as many new community business enquiries within Southern Co-op’s trading [...]
Our Communications Officer, Michael Wolverson reports from his tour of community pubs from South West Scotland, made possible by our partnership with the Scottish Government’s Rural Network “This pub has brought the village back to life.”- Nigel, The Kenmuir Arms. It’s a phrase I often hear when writing about community [...]
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