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Postcard from a Pop Up Shop

Pop Up shop. There’s something about seeing a sign for a pop up shop that tickles your fancy.The Pop up shop has been seen as a great way to reinvigorate town centres and let new businesses test the market in an affordable, low-risk way. Now we have Shop Share - an even cheaper and lower […]

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Town Centre Ideas: Postcard from a Megabus

It seems that some of our Can Do Places people get inspiration and Town Centre Ideas, not just from the events we run, but on the journey to and from those events. Jill Davies, for instance, project manager with Coupar Angus Development Trust, said she often gets ideas in the Megabus travelling down from Perth. […]

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Postcard from Neilston

The small town of Neilston (pop. 6000 approx) in East Renfrewshire made the headlines recently when it was declared to be Scotland’s most desirable place to live. This was based on a study by the Centre for Economic and Business Research which considered factors such as good schools, green spaces and communting times. What the […]

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Postcard from Sirolli

At our packed Can Do Places event ‘Collaborate or Perish’ in January, we were joined by Ernesto Sirolli. Ernesto is the founder of the Sirolli Institute, the global authority on bottom-up economic development. Ernesto is not your man for benchmarking, key performance indicators or other metrics of what he calls “the dismal science” (economics) as […]

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Postcard from Bike Town: Update

Just three months ago, our Postcard from the Healthy n Happy Community Development Trust (covering Cambuslang and Rutherglen, near Glasgow), highlighted the launch of their Bike Town project, aimed at encouraging local people to get on their bikes and at turning Cam/Glen into such a bike friendly area that cycling visitors would be streaming to […]

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Postcard from Falkirk: Update

Great news from the BID for Falkirk, “Falkirk Delivers”! During the Challenge, they spoke about an initiative aimed at encouraging people who were visiting the area’s famous Falkirk Wheel and the even more famous Kelpies, to visit the town centre as well. Local bus services already linked these three attractions but if you weren’t from […]

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