The English Devolution Bill, which contains proposed legislation for a Community Right to Buy, passed its second reading in the House of Commons yesterday (2 September). It will now move to committee stage, and is due to pass into law, with amendments and scrutiny in 2026. Plunkett UK is a [...]
Minety Community Shop in north Wiltshire recently received a visit from Roz Savage MP and Plunkett UK. The purpose of the visit was to discuss with the shop’s committee how a community-owned business works, and to understand the services they are offering the village and surrounding area. The shop, which [...]
Thorndon Community Shop, run by local volunteers, marked 14 years of trading with a visit from local Member of Parliament, Adrian Ramsay We were delighted to join Adrian Ramsay MP at Thorndon Community Shop to celebrate its impressive milestone of 14 years of trading. During the visit, we had the opportunity [...]
Member of Parliament for Tatton, Esther McVey, was invited to a local community-owned business in Styal, Cheshire as it celebrated its 11th anniversary since opening Earlams Community Store and Café is much more than a village café – it is owned and run by the village as community shareholders, and [...]
Wates Developments, a land, planning and development specialist driven by the purpose of creating places people can thrive, has announced a three-year strategic partnership with Plunkett UK. The new partnership with the national charity, which promotes and supports people in rural areas to set up and run successful community-owned businesses [...]
Plunkett UK has been awarded a multi-year grant from The Linbury Trust towards our community business service, which helps all forms of rural community-owned business at all stages of setting up and running, throughout the UK. The funding secured over the next three years will support Plunkett to safeguard this [...]
Government Minister Alex Norris saw community business in action during his visit to the Woodgate Community Shop in West Sussex last week (17 July). The shop is a unique community-led initiative located within Woodgate, a new community built by Thakeham, an industry-leading housebuilder, in joint venture with Abri, one of [...]
Britain’s fifth biggest supermarket, Morrisons, have teamed up with Plunkett UK to offer our member community businesses a free year-round delivery pass. This service is ideal for ‘top-up-shops’ – when products are required in smaller volumes than the large wholesalers sell them in. It enables our community businesses to get [...]
A community’s right to buy a local asset or business was announced in Parliament yesterday (10 July) and welcomed by rural community business charity, Plunkett UK. As part of the English Devolution Bill set out in the House of Commons, it will become easier for local ownership groups to take [...]
This month: Plunkett and Members highlighted in Parliament, the Spending Review, engaging with the Business and Trade Committee, and visits to community businesses. Rural community shops in the House of Commons Plunkett UK and member Oxton Community Shop were directly mentioned in the House of Commons last month by [...]
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