UK’s Most Inspiring Community Businesses - Recognised by Rural Community Business Awards Helping the vulnerable, delivering food parcels, supporting local food producers, providing local jobs, reducing loneliness, embracing green initiatives, improving wellbeing and creating vibrant communities – the winners of the 2021 Rural Community Business awards have brought their communities together and [...]
These grant awards have now closed - however, funded support and training through the Hopkins Plunkett Communities Scheme is still available! As of the 15th February 2022 all grants have been allocated, however please contact us for information on other funding opportunities, upcoming events, training or business support for your [...]
Georgina Edwards, Plunkett's Policy & Research Manger outlines five ways that community businesses are already fighting the climate crisis As businesses that are owned and run by local people, community businesses have ethical practice and local accountability at their core. Now, with greater awareness of the climate crisis, we are seeing more [...]
An inspiring, community pubs event for new and trading groups at Exelby Green Dragon, Yorkshire Available to attend online or 'in-person' - Thursday 11 November, 9.00-15.30 Join our inspiring, interactive community pubs event to discover the opportunities for establishing new or developing existing community businesses. This event, running from 9am to 3.30pm, [...]
Plunkett Foundation is proud to launch its latest set of reports providing an insight into the health of the community pub and community shop sectors. Our flagship reports capture the headline trends of both sectors in 2020, and bring the stats to life with insights directly from community businesses themselves. The [...]
Plunkett Foundation launches a new Community Business Platform – an online space that is designed to help you improve your business. The new platform will provide the opportunity to use a new business appraisal & assessment tool, access to discussion groups, themed topics and the opportunity to update your business profile and [...]
We’re so pleased to share this film with you about our work and the work of Siop Griffiths, Penygroes, Wales, one of the community shops that we’re incredibly proud to have supported through our advice, training and technical expertise. This film is a celebration not only of the amazing impact of Siop [...]
James Alcock, Plunkett Foundation’s Chief Executive, explains how placing communities at the heart of food production and supply will lead to fairer access to fresh, healthy food for all. We are enormously excited by our ambitions to release the potential of new and existing community businesses, small scale producers and local food suppliers, [...]
Reports Launch Event - Community Pubs and Shops: A Better Form of Business 2021 Wednesday 20th October, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm - via Zoom Plunkett Foundation will launch its latest set of business reports providing an insight into the health of the community pub and shop sectors. Our flagship reports capture the [...]
James Alcock, Plunkett Foundation's Chief Executive, explains the issues many communities face in accessing healthy, nutritious food in rural areas. Amongst the many difficulties we have all experienced in the past year, our members and a wide variety of community-owned businesses have seen at first hand the vulnerability of the UK’s food system [...]
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