Films

Below is one of two inspiring new films produced by the Plunkett Foundation.  Focusing on our work with supporting community-owned shops, the film features Tackley 'All-in-One' Centre in Oxfordshire, one of over 180 community-owned shops in the UK.  Feel inspired?  Now it's your turn!

Please note that the film takes a few moments to begin.

Information and Ideas Centre

Click here to access the full Information and Ideas Centre.

Plunkett Foundation Reports and Resources

• Building Community Assets - A Practical Guide for Communities Considering Purchasing Land and Buildings (3MB)
• Resource Guide Section 6 - Decision-making Exercises and Tools (180 Kb)
  
• Organisational Structures for Rural Social Enterprises - Section 7 - Fact Sheets (171 Kb)
  
• Enterprising Approaches to Rural Community Transport (1.3 MB)
  
• How local foods can survice the supermarket onslaught (1.3MB)
• Fresh Ideas - Rural Social Enterprise 2008 (763 KB)
• Strengthening Rural Communities - Information, Advice and Support (3MB)
• Advice Sheets for Community-Owned Rural Shops

Key Rural Co-operative and Social Enterprise Documents

• Communities in control: real people, real power
• Defra Third Sector Strategy
• Social Enterprise Action Plan - Scaling New Heights
• Social Enterprise Action Plan - Two Years On
• Living Working Countryside: The Taylor Review of Rural Economy and Affordable Housing
• Food Matters: Towards a Strategy for the 21st Century
• The future role of the third sector in social and economic regeneration
• State of the Countryside 2008 - Summary Report

Case Studies

• Click here for the Plunkett Foundation's film around our work in the North West of England
• Click here for case studies of projects supported under Strengthening Rural Communities across the North West
• Click here for our online directory of community-owned shops in the UK