How Heaval Distillery is crafting a sustainable future and empowering a remote community in Scotland Plunkett recently awarded a small development grant from the Scottish Rural Network to Uisge Beatha Nan Eilean Limited (Heaval Distillery) on the Isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides. Its community whisky distillery project is [...]
Residents of the South Cambridgeshire village of Ickleton are celebrating having their own community pub, with support from Plunkett UK and the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority. The Ickleton Lionhearted Community Benefit Society hosted an event on Sunday 22 December to mark their purchase of the Ickleton Lion, with carol [...]
Volunteers are responsible for every aspect of life at the community-owned Fox Inn in Garboldisham, Norfolk. Iain Entwistle shares their story so far, the benefits and challenges of being entirely volunteer-run and their exciting plans for what’s next. The Fox Inn is a Grade II listed pub dating back to [...]
A community-owned pub in Guilden Morden showcased their success on a visit by Plunkett UK and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority There was a warm welcome from The Three Tuns in Guilden Morden for the Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, Dr Nik Johnson, who visited the community-owned [...]
West Yorkshire’s first-ever community-owned pub is celebrating its tenth birthday with a long weekend of festivities this month. Plunkett UK member, The Fox and Goose in Hebden Bridge, marks the milestone on 21-25 March with events such as a mini beer festival showcasing the pub’s favourite local breweries, DJs, [...]
Houghton and Wyton Community Shop is an inspiring example of just what can be achieved when individuals come together to save an asset at risk of being lost, as well as the impact community-owned businesses can have on those around them. Houghton and Wyton is a village in Cambridgeshire [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Residents of the new community of Woodgate, in Pease Pottage, Sussex, are raising funds to establish a new community-owned shop on the development through a community share offer. The new village shop will be located in a building at the heart of the development, managed by local residents and run by the [...]
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