Plunkett Foundation

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The Plunkett Foundation is a charity that aims to help rural communities in the UK create and run community-owned businesses.^[1]

The Plunkett Foundation's work and history[]

The organisation aims to support community-owned enterprise in the UK.^[2] It also aims to raise awareness community-ownership's potential for success in rural areas, and to make it easier for rural communities to start such businesses.^[3]

The 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. The foundation is based in Oxfordshire, England.

To celebrate 2012 being designated as the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives, the 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 into the Blueprint for a Co-operative Decade.

See also[]

• Malcolm Lyall Darling

References[]