Open shop: Talking shops and heritage
- Mar 2
- 2 min read
An evening for prospective and established shopkeepers.
Attracting footfall and new businesses to Dunoon is critical to our town’s future, as it keeps people shopping and spending locally. At POP shop enterprises CIC, we’re working with Dunoon Community Development Trust (DCDT) and local partners on an exciting new project to share Dunoon’s fascinating heritage in a way that encourages more footfall around our town.
Through research with DCDT, we know that Dunoon and Kirn have amazing heritage assets, notably the Castle House Museum and Dunoon Pier. We also know that there’s a lack of heritage interpretation at key locations, including shopping streets. This means that this heritage is not always easily available to positively impact people’s experience of these places.
Knowing the fascinating heritage stories behind our shops and streets helps people to connect to them. It encourages them to linger and, ultimately, spend more time and money shopping locally.
“At the POP shop, we’re on a mission to use our expertise in sharing heritage stories and working with local people to create solutions to some of our town’s challenges,”
says Hannah Clinch, co-director of POP shop Enterprises CIC.
“That’s why we are delighted to be working with the Trust and local heritage stakeholder on this new heritage project, which will involve creating a printed heritage map of Dunoon and Kirn with related shop window installations around the town.”
Combined with our Enterprise in Place initiative, we are delighted to host an open shop evening at the POP shop aimed at people considering taking on a new shop or businesses premises, and for shopkeepers interested in learning more about these new heritage initiatives.
Find out more and book:
Monday 30 March, 5pm to 6pm - Drop-in session for local shopkeepers to learn about a new heritage project for the town.
Find out more here>
Monday 30 March, 6pm to 7pm - A talk by Claire Hallybone about what to expect when moving into new shop premises for local entrepreneurs.
