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It provides advisory support along with a £40,000 funding package comprised of a £20,000 grant matched with a £20,000 loan which is also matched by the equivalent community contributions.
This programme, which will have supported over 50 new community-owned rural shops by the end of 2009, has recently been renewed for a further three years.
Nenthead Community Shop in Cumbria,
a beneficiary of the Village CORE Programme
The Village CORE Programme is managed by the Plunkett Foundation in partnership with Co-operative & Community Finance and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
Grants will be awarded to rural communities of at least 300 people which are planning to set up a community-owned shop.
In Partnership with:
