Plunkett Foundation

The Plunkett Foundation helps predominantly rural communities to solve their challenges by setting up community co-operatives - enterprises that are owned and run by the community themselves. The focus of our work is: - Helping communities to set up and run a wide range of community co-operatives, from community-owned shops to co-operative pubs; - Promoting and supporting the development of community and co-operative food and farming enterprises; - Advocating and raising awareness amongst policy makers, support organisations and rural communities themselves of the ability of rural communities to take control of the issues affecting them. Founded in 1919, the Plunkett Foundation is a national organisation based in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. 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 Winner of the Rochdale Pioneers Award 2013, the highest honour of the international co-operative movement. Winner of the Social Enterprise Supporter of the Year for England in 2012 at the UK Social Enterprise Awards. Highly Commended in the Social Enterprise Supporter of the Year for the UK 2012 at the UK Social Enterprise Awards.