A Breath of FreshAYR!
4 minute read Robert Singer has two passions in life: art and his hometown of Ayr. Now he’s bringing the two together in a community project aimed a…
Tag: Small business
Can Do Places in Dublin
A team from Can Do Places visits Dublin to investigate The Fumbally Exchange. This re-purposed building was vacant until an architect with vision decid…
Small is Bountiful
Small is Bountiful - by Benedict Dellot If you were able to start from scratch, what kind of a local economy would you create? Would it be one do…
How the new economy can revive remote Scottish communities.
The world is facing an unprecedented re-appraisal of economic thinking following a decade of low growth and a growing movement of people talking about …
Co-working in Madrid
Official figures from Spain show that more than 70 people a day there are becoming “autonomos” - freelance workers. No surprise, then, that co-working …
Postcard from Calgary Ca.
We’re very taken with the motto of Work Nicer, one of the newest co-working spaces in the Western Canadian city of Calgary (home of the famous Calgary …
Postcard from the Dandelion Cafe
When Mairi Darroch and Suzanne Stevenson heard that Glasgow City Council’s decision to return “underused, disused or derelict buildings in parks to mor…
Postcard from 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 …
Postcard from The Painting Cafe, Linlithgow
Janette Sheppard would be the first to agree that an industrial estate on the outskirts of a town in a semi-rural area is not the ideal location for a …