📽️Hear from Sarah Benn, Membership and Training Manager at Plunkett UK, who expresses why you should come to our National Community Business Conference, sponsored by Webmart.  Don't miss out!  Secure your ticket here ➡️plunkett.co.uk/conference/ #combiztogether

🏃‍♂️ I'm running the Oxford Half to raise money for Plunkett UK, a charity that is at the heart of 700+ rural communities UK-wide, supporting community-owned businesses to be a lifeline for local people. Read more about my motivation & pls give if you can: justgiving.com/page/andrew-ox…

Really great to host Defra UK colleagues at Plunkett UK members The New Inn Norton, as part of a site visit with WRCC. Great to show case the #MoreThanAPub model in action, including the #communityshop run by volunteers in the pub car park. #communityownership

Margaret Clark, Chair of the #RuralCoalition, spoke with Farming Today about the significant potential of the rural economy.🎙️Tune in at 6:55 to hear how rural communities can drive national growth with the right support. Listen here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… #EconomicGrowth

As the The Labour Party government prioritises #economicgrowth, a landmark report published by the #RuralCoalition - of which Plunkett is a member - reveals the enormous potential of the #ruraleconomy. It could generate £19b annually in additional tax revenues. plunkett.co.uk/rural-economy-…

Appreciated the opportunity to make the case for partnership working between #cooperative/ #combiz / #socent, with private industry and the public sector to Preet Kaur Gill MP & Daniel Zeichner. The work Plunkett UK is doing with Thakeham is a great example of how this could work.

Insightful conversation at this fringe about the value of pubs. The new @localis & British Beer & Pub Association report contains many findings that chime with the reasons local residents progress #communityownership campaigns to protect their local. They are #MoreThanAPub!! Plunkett UK

It was fantastic to briefly introduce Tonia Antoniazzi to the work of Plunkett UK at the end of Localis & British Beer & Pub Association fringe. As chair of the APPPG for Beer, I was championing the role of #communityownership in sustaining pubs at the heart of communities UK-wide! #MoreThanAPub

Conference run, plus mini tour of Liverpool done with my good friend Justin Griggs, who works for our partners NALC. It was great to chew the fat and compare notes from yesterday. Now, on to the day ahead.

Delighted to be able to share Plunkett UK's policy ambitions with the first ever Co-operative Party Biz Minister, Jonathan Reynolds at this morning's Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) small business reception. Keen to promote the impact of #communityowned businesses & support needs for mature/trading #combiz.

Very easy to champion the work that Plunkett UK & Thakeham have been doing, in respect of #combiz and placemaking given that Chancellor Rachel Reeves has visited Woodgate, the community where the pilot #communityowned shop has opened.

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‘Real meaningful shifts of power are at the heart of our agenda’ - great to have Alex Norris MP with us, meeting community businesses and those who back them at Baltic Creative CIC

The brilliant Swatkiss, Homebaked Bakery sets out clear asks for #combiz to Minister Alex Norris MP. 1) Use & support #combiz (where's the pies at the year's The Labour Party conference!?) 2) Make sure the 'support' is achievable & obtainable. 3) Back communities with assets to grow!

Inspiring speech from Alex Norris MP at Power to Change fringe on the ‘community ownership moment’. Big call for the sector to work with Labour & Co-op ministers to deliver transformative growth across the country.

I love Liverpool for so many reasons & seeing this mural opposite the amazing Baltic Creative CIC was (for me) so brilliant. I am so grateful to Power to Change for pulling us out of the main #LabourConference24 arena to showcase the inspiring #combiz that exist in this great city!