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03 December

Talking about YouTube - Mayor of Lambeth takes part in a (B£) Brixton Pound shopping spree

 

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YouTube - Mayor of Lambeth takes part in a (B£) Brixton Pound shopping spree
 

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13 November

Talking about YouTube - Mayor of Lambeth takes part in a B£ shopping spree

 

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YouTube - Mayor of Lambeth takes part in a B£ shopping spree
 

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07 November

Talking about YouTube - No Surprises by Radiohead sweded by Stephanie Thieullent & Felix Gonzales

 

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YouTube - No Surprises by Radiohead sweded by Stephanie Thieullent & Felix Gonzales
 

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28 September

Talking about YouTube - Checkout Da Best tasting Jamaican Jerk Chicken in Brixton, South London

 

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YouTube - Checkout Da Best tasting Jamaican Jerk Chicken in Brixton, South London
 

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10 May

The Plunkett Foundation

http://www.plunkett.co.uk

The Plunkett Foundation promotes and supports co-operatives and social enterprises in rural communities worldwide.  We provide support, networks and knowledge to help rural communities to be aware of, understand and implement practical solutions to the challenges that they are facing.

Our Work

We work with a range of organisations who share our values to develop support programmes for rural co-operative and social enterprises through their development.  We are also a centre of information and ideas relating to rural co-operatives and social enterprise worldwide with over 20,000 items in the Plunkett Foundation Information Centre which have been collected since we were founded.

We also influence government and others to build support and provide an enabling environment for the development of rural co-operative and social enterprises.

Rural Co-operatives and Social Enterprises

"A co-operative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprise."

The International Co-operative Alliance Statement on the Co-operative Identity

"A social enterprise is defined as a business with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders or owners."

Office of the Third Sector

A social enterprise has an enterprise orientation – income generated from trading – and has social aims, such as job creation, training or the provision of local services.  Social enterprises are often characterised by social ownership.

Rural co-operatives and social enterprises are considered such if they are either located in a rural area or even if they are based in an urban location, if it exists to provide benefits for rural people, either as suppliers, customers or as members, then it will be considered as rural.

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