Plunkett UK
21 Feb 2022
Keep It in the Community – a nationwide register of Assets of Community Value
Plunkett Foundation has re-launched Keep It in the Community (KIITC), with support from Locality and Power to Change. It is an online register of all Assets of Community Value (ACVs)...
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08 Feb 2022
Plunkett launches an online directory of assets of community value – ACVs
Keep It in the Community (KIITC) is an online database of all community assets in England, such as pubs, shops and land, that have been nominated or registered as an Asset...
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27 Sep 2021
Dame Prue Leith DBE Joins the Plunkett Foundation in Celebrating the UK’s Best Rural Community Businesses
To celebrate the UK’s finest examples of community-owned businesses and their amazing contribution to the communities they serve Plunkett Foundation, supported by Dame Prue Leith DBE, has launched its annual...
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27 Jan 2021
Creating new community businesses in our valued places of worship
Shops, cafés and local vital services are being re-located into the heart of our rural communities and into our places of worship. Churches and their associated buildings are finding new...
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02 Nov 2020
Plunkett releases key reports into community pubs and shops
The Plunkett Foundation has recently released its flagship reports into community pubs and community shops – showing both sectors to be in robust health as the country was plunged into...
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22 Oct 2020
Plunkett Foundation Virtual Fete – 24 November 2020
2020 has been a year of many challenges and difficulties but it has also been the year that we have seen communities come together like never before and at the...
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28 Sep 2020
Call for Government to level-up rural areas to support England’s economic recovery from COVID-19
Call for Government to level-up rural areas to support England’s economic recovery from COVID-19 Rural Coalition urges Government to unlock untapped potential of rural communities and economies and to address...
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01 Sep 2020
New rules will worsen the rural housing crisis
A letter, co-signed by the Rural Services Network, the Rural Housing Alliance, Plunkett Foundation and Acre has been featured in the Telegraph on 29th August 2020, highlighting the rural housing...
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20 Jul 2020
Plunkett publish Ripple Effect Report
Plunkett and the Coop have published their report entitled Ripple Effect: the social impact of the rural community business sector and the Plunkett Foundation The report has recently been updated...
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26 May 2020
The Plunkett Foundation write to Local Authority Leaders
The Plunkett Foundation (alonside other organisations) has written to Local Authority Leaders to highlight the importance of local social enterprises, co-operatives and community businesses to their local area Local Authorities...
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