People, community-ownership and taking a moment to say thanks.
Liz Woznicki2021-06-09T10:31:32+00:00Plunkett are calling for SITR to be renewed past April so that community groups can continue to benefit from tax relief on share investments.
Celebrating Community Business Volunteers
Liz Woznicki2021-06-01T16:27:46+00:00To celebrate Volunteers' Week 2021 and to say thank you to the thousands of volunteers supporting over 700 community businesses across the UK, we’re highlighting the stories of some of their indispensable volunteers. In the last year volunteers have gone ‘above and beyond’ by giving huge amounts of time and energy to supporting [...]
Simple steps to establishing a community business in a place of worship
Liz Woznicki2022-06-16T10:56:10+00:00Aimee Evans, Plunkett's Project Manger, outlines the simple steps to establishing a community business in a place of worship. Whether a grocery shop, post office, café, book shop or providing local fresh food, more and more communities are coming together to ensure that their town or village provides vital services. In this [...]
Help Save the West Midlands’ Iconic Pubs
Liz Woznicki2021-05-28T08:08:12+00:00The Plunkett Foundation is calling for community groups in the West Midlands to save their much-loved local pubs. In the West Midlands since 2010 over 539* pubs have sadly been lost. Community pubs across the UK are under threat with over 2,500 pubs closing in 2020 - representing a 5% fall in [...]
James Alcock: Walk For Plunkett & a heartfelt thank you
Liz Woznicki2021-05-20T09:30:20+00:00Thank you for joining our walking challenge #WalkForPlunkett Last weekend a team of Plunkett staff and supporters – from community businesses, through to individuals, business members and partners took on the Walk for Plunkett challenge. Joining us, as we attempted to reach our walking target of 1,000 miles, they helped us to raise [...]
Walking for Plunkett in support of community businesses
Gemma Sills2021-05-12T09:28:04+00:00This weekend, a team of Plunkett staff and supporters will be venturing out in to the great outdoors in support of Plunkett Foundation’s Walk for Plunkett challenge. The challenge; to collectively walk 1,000 miles over the 14th to 16th May. Anyone is invited to take part and walk as many miles as they can [...]
Support for Scottish Community Businesses
Liz Woznicki2021-05-10T13:19:50+00:00Making it easy to access community business support Across Scotland, there is growing interest in community businesses. A type of business that gives the residents of villages and towns the opportunity to safeguard essential services as well as offering communities the chance to develop exciting new assets. To date in [...]
Charge My Street – community electric vehicle chargepoints
Olivia Lanham2021-05-07T14:05:16+00:00We are working with Charge My Street to introduce electric vehicle chargepoints to the community business sector.
Event summary: Greener Community Business Virtual Summit, 22 April 2021
Olivia Lanham2021-05-07T09:36:39+00:00line space Last year, we launched our Rural Vision, which identified five central opportunities to achieve a stronger, more resilient future for rural communities across the UK. Harnessing positive environmental impact through community business was one of those five opportunities, and on 22 April 2021, to coincide with Earth Day, we invited [...]
Harnessing positive environmental impact: Greener Community Business Virtual Summit
Claire Spendley2021-04-20T09:23:18+00:00Becoming a member of the Plunkett Foundation means you join a growing number of like minded people and organisations all working together to help communities set up and run community businesses as a way of overcoming a range of challenges. Plunkett's membership manager Claire Spendley looks at the benefits of joining a gorwing number o like-minded people and organisations.
