Plunkett Foundation

Plunkett Foundation helps rural communities in the UK to take control of the issues affecting them through community ownership.[1]

Plunkett Foundation's work

The Foundation's work includes:

  • Supporting the growing network of community-owned shops across the UK[2]
  • Promoting and supporting wider forms of community-owned enterprises and co-operatives in rural communities
  • Promoting and supporting community food and farming enterprises[3]
  • Advocacy and awareness raising with the purpose of increasing awareness of the potential of community-ownership in rural areas and making it easier for rural communities to take action

Plunkett Foundation was founded in 1919 by the pioneer of rural co-operation in Ireland, Sir Horace Plunkett. Since being founded it has been involved in a range of work relating to international development, rural development and agricultural development. It is based in Oxfordshire, England.

To celebrate 2012 being designated as the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives Plunkett Foundation held the World of Rural Co-operation International Roundtable event.[4] This event led to the development of the Dunsany Declaration for Rural Co-operative Development[5] which has fed in to the Blueprint for a Co-operative Decade.

See also

References
  1. The Plunkett Foundation website
  2. Plunkett Community Shops Network - http://www.communityshops.coop Archived 11 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  3. See for example http://www.makinglocalfoodwork.co.uk
  4. World of Rural Co-operation - http://www.rural2012.coop
  5. Dunsany Declaration for Rural Co-operative Development - http://www.plunkett.co.uk/templates/asset-relay.cfm?frmAssetFileID=1507
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