At the beginning of 2026 the team here at the POP shop worked with local and national partners, including the Melting Pot and Dunoon Community Development Trust, to develop and deliver Enterprise in Place: Dunoon. This project provided networking events and workshops supporting over 30+ women in our community who were setting up and growing businesses in the local area. Find out more about the outcome of that project here> We know Dunoon is an enterprising community, but we a

Here in Dunoon we have a distinct ecosystem of organisations and opportunities for people starting and growing businesses and social enterprises. Some, like Business Gateway offer advice and grants, others offer support in more subtle ways. For example, the What’s On Dunoon platform can be used by businesses to post-up and promote events linked to their business development. Like all small towns in rural Scotland, Dunoon also has a set of distinct barriers that people have t

Our drinks-makers guide to growing German chamomile from Dunoon Goes POP.

Rest, Revival and Resilience: Exploring and Activating Dunoon’s Victorian Heritage Dunoon’s Victorian heritage is set to inspire a new community project, thanks to National Lottery players. POP Shop Enterprises CIC has received a grant of £101,819 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for Convalescent Coast, an 18-month community heritage project exploring Dunoon’s Victorian story as a place of health, temperance and soft drinks production. Running from June 2026 to October