Plunkett's latest training webinar videos From financing your community business and growing sales to managing your customers and embracing change. These videos from the Plunkett Foundation will help you discover more about running your business and making it thrive. These videos are part of a programme of webinars provided completely FREE thanks to the [...]
Grants & business advice are available now for East of England community businesses We’re delighted to announce that the third phase of grants from the Denbury Plunkett Communities Scheme (formerly the Hopkins Plunkett Communities Scheme) are now open for community-run businesses in Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge and Essex. Grants of up to £1,000 are available [...]
Plunkett’s Community Business Manager, Alison Macklin, travelled to Carmarthenshire & Gwynedd to share best practice, advice and the experiences of new and established community groups in Wales Shwmae. In December, Plunkett held its first face to face networking event for almost two years and ventured into the beautiful Welsh countryside to bring [...]
Community-owned urban pubs – new research to review the opportunities Plunkett Foundation, working with Power to Change, is conducting a new piece of research that aims to investigate why relatively few community-owned pubs have been established in urban communities to date. Of the current 147 community-owned pubs operating across the UK, only [...]
We wish you a safe and restful Christmas and look forward to working with you again in 2022. Plunkett office hours over Christmas: Our office will be closing on Christmas Eve and reopening on Tuesday 4th January. During this time you can leave a phone message on 0845 557 1469 or send an email [...]
Leiston Community Church Garden - creating an inspirational garden to reconnect its community The small Suffolk town of Leiston and its United Reformed church have come together to develop an ambitious plan to provide much needed green space and a thriving hub for the benefit of its community. Phil Edwards, Treasurer of [...]
Why a community-led approach is needed in Scotland and Northern Ireland - responding to food strategy consultations. Over the past 18 months, the pandemic has brought into focus the weaknesses in our food system. Reliant on often long, global supply chains, our food system is vulnerable to disruption. As consumers, we [...]
At Bestway Wholesale, we are delighted to be the headline sponsor of the Plunkett Foundation’s Christmas fundraising campaign. We’d love to invite your business to come and shop for Christmas at one of our Bestway Wholesale depots. Once registered as a customer, you will be able to enjoy great offers, promotions, and unbeatable prices. [...]
Community shop and post office manager, Karen Loftus, from Berrynarbor Community Enterprise, Devon, has won a national award for her work, commitment and passion in supporting Berrynarbor’s local community throughout the pandemic. Karen was presented with the award for Community Contribution from Dame Prue Leith DBE, restaurateur, chef and presenter, and Thakeham, sponsors [...]
Plunkett's Project Manager - Susie Middleton - explains how community businesses locating in places of active worship can create mutual benefits and have a positive impact in the local area. Currently only around 1 in 10 groups that contact Plunkett Foundation for support to set up a community business will ever reach [...]
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