Can Do Oban Again!

During our recent visit to Oban, we also popped into a little gem of a shop called "Made in Argyll".   It features a wonderful range of items which are…

Can Do Oban

Can Do Places visited The Rockfield Centre in Oban on the eve of the launch party for the community shares offer that will allow everyone with an inter…

Ex Bank Becomes Can Do Space

The sun is well and truly shining on Leith when Can Do Places pitches up at the Edinburgh Remakery, the social enterprise which recently celebrated its…

Can Do Portpatrick

6 minute read and view Almost a decade ago, a busy, historic harbour in the seaside village of Portpatrick in Dumfries & Galloway was facing a ver…

My Enterprising Place – Wayne Hemingway

5 minute read It’s no surprise that award-winning designer Wayne Hemingway has given a big “thumbs-up” to what Can Do Places stands for.  For the co…

Peebles – A Can Do Place

Peebles is a beautiful town in the borders of Scotland. The reason for taking part in Can Do Places for the community was to address that very modern …

Designing for Invisible Businesses

Dr Frances Holliss is an architect and Emeritus Reader at the Cass School of Architecture at London Metropolitan University. Designing for invisible b…

Can Do Glasgow: Dandelion Cafe

4 minute read - July 2016 When Mairi Darroch and Suzanne Stevenson heard that Glasgow City Council’s decision to return “underused, disused or derel…

A Can Do Places Fable

Once upon a time there was a place where people made and sold things. They had to do that in order to survive because without earning money how cou…

Can Do Westray

Louise and Duncan Drever run WFM Brown Ltd., an award-winning, wholesale bakery on the island of Westray (population around 600) in Orkney. The bakery …