To celebrate Volunteers' Week 2021 and to say thank you to the thousands of volunteers supporting over 700 community businesses across the UK, we’re highlighting the stories of some of their indispensable volunteers. In the last year volunteers have gone ‘above and beyond’ by giving huge amounts of time and energy to supporting [...]
Training conducted by specialist advisers for community businesses Taking the first steps to securing a vital community service, like a pub, shop, post-office, woodland or farm can be a daunting task. Finding the right information, advice and support can be critical to your group's journey and in enabling you to help your community [...]
The Plunkett Foundation is calling for community groups in the West Midlands to save their much-loved local pubs. In the West Midlands since 2010 over 539* pubs have sadly been lost. Community pubs across the UK are under threat with over 2,500 pubs closing in 2020 - representing a 5% fall in [...]
Thank you for joining our walking challenge #WalkForPlunkett Last weekend a team of Plunkett staff and supporters – from community businesses, through to individuals, business members and partners took on the Walk for Plunkett challenge. Joining us, as we attempted to reach our walking target of 1,000 miles, they helped us to raise [...]
Making it easy to access community business support Across Scotland, there is growing interest in community businesses. A type of business that gives the residents of villages and towns the opportunity to safeguard essential services as well as offering communities the chance to develop exciting new assets. To date in [...]
Ahead of the Scottish elections on Thursday 6 May, our Head of Policy, Chris Cowcher sets out the commitments we expect from all parties to help the community-owned business sector in Scotland to grow and flourish. In Scotland, Plunkett is currently working with 74 community businesses, including 25 shops, 13 woodlands, 10 [...]
Alongside our partners, Power to Change, Locality, Co-operatives UK, we are committing to a more diverse, equitable and inclusive community business sector.
Coronavirus: A message to community businesses from James Alcock, Chief Executive of the Plunkett Foundation.
Becoming a member of the Plunkett Foundation means you join a growing number of like minded people and organisations all working together to help communities set up and run community businesses as a way of overcoming a range of challenges. Plunkett's membership manager Claire Spendley looks at the benefits of joining a gorwing number o like-minded people and organisations.
2020 Plunkett Impact Report National charity the Plunkett Foundation releases its 2020 Impact Report revealing a huge growth in demand for support to help communities save essential local services. With thousands of households and communities struggling to come to terms with the impacts of the Covid crisis, community businesses offer a [...]
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