Providing opportunities for people living in disadvantaged areas of Dunoon to learn about sustainable development and biodiversity by investing profits into garden and growing spaces in targeted ways.
Estimated Price
70000
We want to provide a flavours garden tasting room, demonstration kitchen & batch production space.
This will support both the community led ‘Dunoon Goes Pop’ soft drinks brand and tourism offer for heritage & horticultural visitor experiences.
Post completion in Q3 2026, the facility will provide long term legacy use for an expected lifespan of 30 years.
Our work responds to research identified through the development of a Local Place Plan and Community-Led (Town Centre) Action Plan. Findings: low local awareness about the impacts of climate change on the community and a lack of leadership at a local level to make Dunoon a high quality, destination where climate is considered in service delivery.
The buildings would support: greater income generation potential through having a high quality tasting room for Dunoon goes POP and other local food & drink producers in Dunoon & Cowal throughout the year.
Economic: It addresses the lack of local quality spaces for entrepreneurs and enterprise development, particularly for women and people working in the creative and cultural industries.
Social: we provide opportunities for people living in disadvantaged areas of Dunoon to learn about sustainable development and biodiversity by investing profits into garden and growing spaces in targeted ways. Our longer term goal is to train young people to make drinks and provide heritage tours.
Net Zero: An accessible, low carbon construction demonstrator, show casing 3 types of off-site panelised systems available in Scotland.
Delivery would be via a live practical build workshops for the Dunoon community & industry partners. It will focus on Net Zero via modern methods of construction via low embodied carbon materials, carbon sequestration, air tightness, vapour permeability, natural fibre insulation & home grown timber.
Also delivered would be an accessible batch food & drinks production & demonstration kitchen for flavour development and skills training.
The current drinks garden has been co-designed by volunteers and a local gardening and biodiversity professional. As a space the garden is a curated collection of over 50 specimens used to make soft drinks.
Embedded into the design and management of the garden is circularity - local food waste composting, rain water harvesting & material reuse.
POP shop enterprises is committed to community wealth building and works with members to develop projects that retain work and enterprise opportunities in our community. Dunoon Goes POP brings together three local practitioners with an interest in heritage, design and social enterprise and biodiversity. Our work aligns with agendas in Net Zero, Biodiversity, Cultural Heritage and visitor agendas, The Place Principle, NPF4, NSET and the Climate Change Plan.
Creating our garden was possible thanks to the funding support of Lottery Players, National Lottery Community Fund, and Business Gateway Argyll and Bute. We couldn’t have done it without our local volunteers and the in-kind support from partners Dunoon Community Development Trust and Grow Food, Grow Dunoon.
