The Plunkett Foundation
The Plunkett Foundation helps rural communities through community-ownership to take control of the issues affecting them.
The focus of our work is:
- Helping rural communities to set up and run community-owned shops with a range of partner organisations
- Supporting rural communities to establish a wide range of other community-owned rural services
- Promoting and supporting the development of community food and farming enterprises across England through leading the Making Local Food Work programme and other community 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 through community-ownership 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
