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Funding will support dedicated training hub for community businesses Plunkett Foundation, a UK-wide charity dedicated to supporting community-owned businesses, is pleased to announce that the charity has been awarded a Royal Warrant Holders Association (RHWA) Charity Fund, to support the charity’s dedicated training hub for community businesses. Following a nomination from McFarlane Telfer [...]

An open letter to our members, partners and supporters As 2022 draws to a close and our team prepare for some well-earned time off over Christmas, I wanted to take this opportunity to write to you all and offer our thanks for your contributions to the community business sector this past year. [...]

Rural communities, across England, seeking to safeguard essential local services will benefit from new funding awarded to the Plunkett Foundation by The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK. Plunkett Foundation, a charity which supports people in rural areas to set up and run resilient, thriving and inclusive [...]

Scottish Community Pub Partnership continues to safeguard pubs across Scotland through community-ownership. A new six-month project led by Plunkett Foundation and partners Community Shares Scotland and Co-operative Development Scotland in collaboration with the Scottish Government's Scottish Rural Network Unit will assist more pubs in Scotland to become community-owned, as well as support [...]

News Release: Winners of the Rural Community Business Awards 2022 announced Eight inspirational community-businesses from across the UK have been recognised for their outstanding contribution to their communities and as being the most inspiring enterprises of their kind by the Plunkett Foundation through its Rural Community Business Awards. Selected from 24 finalists, [...]

Plunkett - Benefact Trust support extended until the end of 2023 Plunkett is delighted to announce that Benefact Trust has extended its programme of funding until the end of 2023 enabling us to continue offering free business support and grants to help community groups and active Christian places of worship across the [...]

Celebrating the UK’s Best Community-owned Businesses Twenty-four community-owned businesses from across the UK have been shortlisted for this year’s prestigious Rural Community Business Awards. From a small island shop, a country market, rare-breed farm to a host of much-loved, thriving community pubs – a wide range of community-owned businesses have been recognised [...]

Cheers to the Success of Community Businesses in the East of England. Six community-owned businesses are celebrating awards success after they were announced as ‘winners’ at the Denbury Plunkett Communities Awards. The success of community-owned businesses across the East of England was celebrated at a packed Locks Inn, a community-owned pub in Geldeston [...]