Is your much-loved pub under threat? Do you want to create a community space where all are welcome? Plunkett offers FREE advice and support to community groups in the West Midlands. Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall & Wolverhampton – we’d love to see more communities taking ownership of their much-loved pubs [...]
New helpline number - 01993 630022 Following feedback that our previous telephone number was not as accessible as it should be, we are pleased to launch a new number that will make it simpler and cheaper to contact Plunkett in future. We love hearing how your project is getting on and continue to offer [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We’re delighted to announce that Walk for Plunkett is back for 2022 6-8th May Join us as we walk to raise money for Plunkett's work to help community businesses across the UK. Whether you can walk one mile, five miles or 25 miles, every step you take will be helping us to be [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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