Dame Prue Leith DBE Joins the Plunkett Foundation in Celebrating the UK’s Best Rural Community Businesses To celebrate the UK’s finest examples of community-owned businesses and their amazing contribution to the communities they serve Plunkett Foundation, supported by Dame Prue Leith DBE, has launched its annual Rural Community Business Awards. [...]
Plunkett's community business manager Alison Macklin looks at the importance of choosing a legal structure.
Hopkins Homes pledges £50,000 to extend Hopkins Plunkett Communities Scheme Award-winning housebuilder Hopkins Homes has pledged to donate a further £50,000 to extend the Hopkins Plunkett Communities Scheme which provides vital support to community-run businesses in East Anglia. The partnership between East Anglian based Hopkins Homes and national [...]
Plunkett Foundation is seeking up to three skilled and committed Trustees to join its Board. The Plunkett Foundation is a leading UK-wide charity helping rural communities create thriving and inclusive places through promoting and supporting community business; run democratically by members of the community on behalf of the community. [...]
Harriet English, Plunkett's Head of Engagement, outlines the benefits of locating community businesses in active places of worship. Many great ideas begin with a friendly conversation, a chance meeting or in response to a set of unexpected circumstances. An initial spark of an idea often inspires a group of people to come [...]
Adnams join Plunkett to support community-owned pubs Adnams Plc, award-winning UK brewery and distillery, is putting its support behind the Plunkett Foundation by providing savings and expert advice for its community-owned pub members. Adnams has become a recommended supplier to Plunkett’s members and will offer preferential pricing on its well-loved beers and [...]
More than a Pub programme – final report and reflections The More Than A Pub (MTAP) programme, run by the Plunkett Foundation with funding from Power to Change and the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government, was an unprecedented success for the community-owned pub sector. Delivered in partnership with social lenders [...]
Plunkett sublets surplus office space to enhance financial sustainability Improvements by the Plunkett Foundation to our offices in Woodstock back in 2020 created a dedicated training space to house our then newly launched Training Hub. Separately, excess space in the building was repurposed so that it could be readily sublet to generate [...]
Plunkett's community business manager Alison Macklin looks at the importance of choosing a legal structure.
Church kitchen proves perfect place to bake community's daily bread Coventry-based Chernise Neo has a passion for baking. When she talks about the mouth-watering cinnamon buns enriched with milk, butter and eggs - or the Middle Eastern-inspired lemon, almond and coconut sweet treats that she regularly bakes - her sheer enthusiasm and [...]
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