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Greg Smith MP visits Westbury Community Shop and Café

2023-12-21T11:30:24+00:00

Chris Cowcher, provides an overview of a recent visit to Westbury Community Shop and Café on the border of Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire. Having met in one of the many fringe events at the Conservative Party conference, when I was there representing our movement back in October, I was delighted to receive a [...]

Greg Smith MP visits Westbury Community Shop and Café2023-12-21T11:30:24+00:00

Meet Our Community Business Advisers

2023-11-28T13:22:17+00:00

Our staff team is growing, meet our community business advisers Plunkett Foundation is a UK-wide charity with a vision for resilient, thriving and inclusive rural communities. To achieve this, we support people in rural areas to set up and run a wide range of businesses which are genuinely owned by local communities, whereby [...]

Meet Our Community Business Advisers2023-11-28T13:22:17+00:00

Autumn Statement – A community business review

2023-11-24T17:29:21+00:00

Chris Cowcher, Head of Policy and Communication has reviewed the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement to summarise what is relevant to our sector. As always, the Government’s delivery of a Budget Statement will be viewed in the context of what can be gained politically. Will the announcements made earlier this week improve the current [...]

Autumn Statement – A community business review2023-11-24T17:29:21+00:00

Japanese Professor visits Community-Owned Broughton Shop

2023-11-23T15:07:13+00:00

Plunkett's data manager, Paul Thompson shares his account of a recent visit by Osaka University's, Professor Yasuyuki Komaki to Broughton Community Shop in Hampshire. I don’t often get the chance to escape the office and visit community businesses on my own as I mainly work behind the scenes in the office or [...]

Japanese Professor visits Community-Owned Broughton Shop2023-11-23T15:07:13+00:00

A Way Forward for Community Rights in Wales?

2023-11-20T16:09:55+00:00

Georgina Edwards, Policy and Research Manager, represented Plunkett and the community business movement at a panel event hosted by Building Communities Trust in Cardiff. Community Assets: Empowering Communities  The event’s theme was “Community Assets: Empowering Communities”. Evidence has demonstrated, time and time again, that that the existence of community assets – and the [...]

A Way Forward for Community Rights in Wales?2023-11-20T16:09:55+00:00

Plunkett talking community-owned business in Northern Ireland

2023-11-10T16:04:42+00:00

Plunkett's project manager, Diane Cameron shares her account of a recent community ownership event in Northern Ireland. At the end of October, Plunkett Foundation was delighted to accept a kind invitation from Development Trusts Northern Ireland (DTNI) to lead a session at its Rural Community Ownership Conference in a beautiful purpose-built community-owned [...]

Plunkett talking community-owned business in Northern Ireland2023-11-10T16:04:42+00:00

Democratic Business Summit

2023-11-30T09:57:21+00:00

Chris Cowcher, Head of Policy and Communications reflects on representing Plunkett and rural community-owned businesses at this ‘first of its kind’ summit in Manchester. It was my first visit to the beautiful, community-owned Stretford Public Hall and it was a very fitting venue for the first ever Democratic Business Summit. The hall [...]

Democratic Business Summit2023-11-30T09:57:21+00:00

Plunkett visit Amberley Community Shop & Cafe

2023-10-26T14:42:10+00:00

Plunkett's project support officer, George Ogier, provides an overview of the team's recent visit to Amberley, near Stroud in Gloucestershire. At Plunkett, with the generous support of Benefact Trust, we want to bring places of worship and community businesses together – so that they can utilise underused space whilst kick-starting businesses that can [...]

Plunkett visit Amberley Community Shop & Cafe2023-10-26T14:42:10+00:00

Funding from Benefact Trust supports new community business setting up in Easington, County Durham

2023-10-20T15:43:21+00:00

As part of Plunkett's ambition to support more community businesses to set up in active places of worship we are delighted to announce the first group in County Durham to benefit from a grant, thanks to our programme of support funded by Benefact Trust. In July Plunkett travelled to Peterlee in County [...]

Funding from Benefact Trust supports new community business setting up in Easington, County Durham2023-10-20T15:43:21+00:00
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