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Updating Your Model Rules

2022-04-04T10:18:30+00:00

Alison Macklin, Plunkett's Community Business Manager, outlines the importance of your society’s Model Rules and the benefits of keeping them up-to-date so that they truly reflect your group's activities. Community Benefit Societies are encouraged to make changes to their Model Rules for a variety of reasons: to make them more streamlined or [...]

Updating Your Model Rules2022-04-04T10:18:30+00:00

Impact report shows more people than ever before are interested in setting up a community business

2022-04-01T08:50:39+00:00

Plunkett Foundation’s 2021 Impact Report reveals that the number of community businesses has continued to rise, in spite of the disruption of the pandemic. The report also shows that more people than ever before are now interested in setting up a community business, with over 300 communities across the UK getting in touch with [...]

Impact report shows more people than ever before are interested in setting up a community business2022-04-01T08:50:39+00:00

New partnership with Saga to support increasing demand for community-ownership

2022-04-02T14:08:00+00:00

A funding partnership between Saga and the Plunkett Foundation will provide new support to help communities desperate to safeguard their much-loved shops, pubs, post-offices and services. Through generous funding Saga, the specialist insurance and services provider, will join together with the Plunkett Foundation to resource a dedicated helpline and provide free specialist advice, through [...]

New partnership with Saga to support increasing demand for community-ownership2022-04-02T14:08:00+00:00

Two new trustees join the Plunkett Foundation

2022-03-22T17:07:51+00:00

Ruth McAreavey and Adrian Smith have joined the Plunkett Foundation board of trustees at a really critical time, as Plunkett prepares to launch a new 5 year strategy for the Foundation later in the year. Both trustees bring a wealth of experience and relevant expertise to the board, as well as a deep understanding [...]

Two new trustees join the Plunkett Foundation2022-03-22T17:07:51+00:00

Plunkett Foundation launches annual Better Business surveys

2022-04-20T08:35:45+00:00

Plunkett Foundation has launched this year's Better Business surveys for community pubs and shops. The Better Business reports are respected state of the sector research that has been completed annually since 2013. Responses to the Better Business surveys are so valuable - to Plunkett and the sector - because: They give an up to [...]

Plunkett Foundation launches annual Better Business surveys2022-04-20T08:35:45+00:00

Improve your community business with the Business Appraisal Tool

2022-10-12T11:17:52+00:00

To help your community business identify its strengths and weaknesses, Plunkett has designed an online Business Appraisal Tool that provides a tailored report of recommendations. The Appraisal Tool will look at seven areas of your business: benchmarking against other businesses, governance, your business, people, mission, finances & Plunkett support. To get the most [...]

Improve your community business with the Business Appraisal Tool2022-10-12T11:17:52+00:00

A place of true partnership – Broad Chalke’s community shop and United Reformed Church chapel

2022-04-05T14:25:40+00:00

Broad Chalke’s community-run Chalke Valley Stores and its United Reformed Church chapel work together to support their rural community Plunkett’s Project Manager, Susie Middleton, visited the thriving community shop & café located within Broad Chalke’s central, and magnificent, United Reformed Church. Broad Chalke is a rural village of 700 people, a short [...]

A place of true partnership – Broad Chalke’s community shop and United Reformed Church chapel2022-04-05T14:25:40+00:00

New Community Pub Partnership to safeguard Scottish pubs through community-ownership

2022-11-24T14:47:18+00:00

Plunkett announces a new Scottish Community Pubs Partnership to help community groups across Scotland to safeguard their well-loved pubs through community-ownership. Thanks to funding from Scottish Government, the new partnership will be led by the Plunkett Foundation, working with Community Shares Scotland and Cooperative Development Scotland. The Scottish Government’s Scottish Rural Network [...]

New Community Pub Partnership to safeguard Scottish pubs through community-ownership2022-11-24T14:47:18+00:00

Dunsfold secures its future through community-ownership & affordable homes

2023-03-17T15:17:53+00:00

Harriet English, Plunkett’s Head of Engagement, celebrates how the rural village of Dunsfold is securing its future by embracing community-ownership and affordable homes for locals.  Creating a thriving village requires both holding on to the places that really matter and embracing new ways of living and working so that your community can thrive [...]

Dunsfold secures its future through community-ownership & affordable homes2023-03-17T15:17:53+00:00
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