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The Plunkett FoundationThe Plunkett Foundation has been helping rural communities through co-operatives and community-ownership to take control of the issues affecting them since 1919.
The focus of our work is:
The Plunkett Foundation finds the most effective ways for each generation to put into practice the values created by its founder, Sir Horace Plunkett. These are:
The Plunkett Foundation is a organisation based in Oxfordshire, England.
The focus of our work is:
- Helping predominantly rural communities to set up and run community-owned shops, co-operative pubs and community food enterprises
- Supporting rural communities to establish a wide range of other co-operatives and community-owned enterprises
- Advocating and raising awareness amongst policy makers, support organisations and rural communities themselves of the ability of rural communities to take control through co-operation and community-ownership of the issues affecting them
- Championing and connecting rural co-operatives internationally.
The Plunkett Foundation finds the most effective ways for each generation to put into practice the values created by its founder, Sir Horace Plunkett. These are:
- We seek economic solutions to create social change
- We seek solutions that enrich rural community life
- We see self-help as the most effective way to tackle rural needs
The Plunkett Foundation is a organisation based in Oxfordshire, England.
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What we do:
We provide a one-stop shop of support for predominantly rural communities looking to set up and run a range of community-owned co-operatives. Our support includes a full-time team based at our main office who respond to enquiries by phone and email. We also have a network of advisers, mentors and specialists based across the UK ready to help. In addition, we produce a range of tools, resources and informationavailable online to help communities through every step of the process.
Community-owned village shopsPlunkett is the only national organisation supporting the development of community-owned village shops in the UK. Through a dedicated team, specialist support programmes and online, phone and face to face support, Plunkett is able to support communities to open new community-owned shops and to help existing community-owned shops to thrive.
Rural social and community enterprisesWe promote and support the development of a range of other community enterprise types using the community co-operative model, from farms and woodlands to bookshops and pubs.
Promoting the Plunkett approach to rural issuesWe dedicate time and resources to promoting the 'Plunkett approach' to solving rural issues - we aspire to helping more people, in more communities, to use co-operative approaches to tackle a wider range of issues. Through this work we develop and influence policies relevant to rural communities and community-owned enterprises. We also promote community-owned enterprises, co-operatives and social enterprises to rural communities through a range of events, partner networks and high profile press and media campaigns.
Plunkett also undertakes a range of consultancy work for public, private and civil society organisations.