Date: 09 June 2010 - 10am - 4pm
Location:
Oxford University Department for Continuing Education
Rewley House
1 Wellington Square
Oxford
OX1 2JA
Overview
The closure and withdrawal of services has left a growing number of rural communities without access to a range of essential services including local shops, pubs, transport and health services. With public funding in short supply, will the government be able to less to prevent this happening?
While services have increasingly closed or been withdrawn in recent years, there has been a growing movement of rural communities setting up and running community-owned services as a way of taking control of the issues which are important to them. Many are replacing a service which is closing or being withdrawn such as setting up a community-owned shop or community transport scheme but others are now looking to the future needs of their communities by setting up enterprises including community-owned broadband and renewable energy enterprises.
This one day seminar, hosted by the Plunkett Foundation, will explore:
• How and why community-owned enterprises such as community-owned shops are opening in record numbers?
• What needs to be done to help other forms of community-owned services to set up and thrive for the long term benefit of their communities?
• What are the future service needs of rural communities and what role can community-ownership play?
Speakers include
Peter Couchman, Chief Executive of the Plunkett Foundation
Professor Jonathan Michie, Ownership Commission, Kellogg College
Kate Braithwaite, Plunkett Foundation Trustee and Director of the CarnegieUK Rural Programme
Julian Ross, Chair of the Old Crown community-owned pub in Hesket Newmarket, Cumbria
Further information
For further information including for details of how to book, please contact info@plunkett.co.uk or call 01993 810730.