Can Do Sanquhar

November 2020 Spinning a Yarn from Sanquhar When people from Sanquhar in Upper Nithsdale (Dumfries and Galloway) say that a 400-year-old knitting tradi…

Update on the Drummond Arms Hotel, Crieff

7 April 2020 We were first introduced to the planned project to buy the Drummond Arms Hotel in Crieff, by Crieff Community Trust (CCT) back in June…

Minister praises community heroes who help entrepreneurs use empty shop units as business hubs

Can Do Places and our community superheroes are in the news. The article feature in Insider.co.uk, reports back from our event held at Tontine, Glasg…

‘Can Do’ campaign to unlock £240m for Scottish economy

Article in The Scotsman - Monday 19 November 2019 A national co-working campaign is seeking to unlock almost £240 million for the Scottish economy by c…

What’s a Can Do Space worth to your community?

Scotland has 479 localities with a resident population of 1000+, all with empty buildings. That's £6 billion+ worth of property vacant in Scotland. …

4 ways a work hub can create an enterprising buzz

At Can Do Places (CDP) we like to find out what is happening across the world. Matthew Clarke from the CDP Team, popped into Penzance for us to find o…

Community Shares Scotland - Supporting our communities

October 2018 It was back in August 2015 that Can Do Places first did a feature on Community Shares Scotland (CSS). Time for an update. Community Shar…

Can Do Oban

January 2021 Can Do Places visited The Rockfield Centre in Oban back in June 2018. It was the eve of the launch party for the community shares offer …

Can Do Alexandria

Local people in the West Dunbartonshire town of Alexandria are working to give the arts and creativity a higher profile through a project aimed at cele…

Can Do Places inspires entrepreneurship in Crieff

Ailsa Campbell tells us how Can Do Places has supported Crieff and helped to inspire a Can Do Space Crieff Community Trust (CCT) has been working wi…