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Living in Unprecedented Times

A message from Rachael Brown, Convener, Can Do Collective

“We have brilliant minds, innovations, impacts and most of all, kindness.”

It feels like the last week has brought home how much of a defining moment in our history this is, the world has changed.

It’s times like these that entrepreneurial thinking shows it’s true value, yes we are in troubling times, very troubling, but we also choose how to behave and can create the next steps ourselves. We have brilliant minds, innovations, impacts and most of all, kindness.

We, as humans, are defined by what we do in difficult times, I have read many stories over the last few days about local businesses cooking meals, creating food packs, sharing resources and taking time to support the most vulnerable in our society. 

This is leadership, this is community

The Can Do Collective is a community of enterprise support organisations from across Scotland, who represent each sector and are committed to building a world-leading entrepreneurial, innovative and creative society. 

We are focused on enabling entrepreneurs to flourish. We believe that innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship are key to the economic, social and environmental success of Scotland. We are committed to Collective Impact, collaborations and collective communications. We work in an environment that is supportive, challenging, honest and trustworthy. We believe that by sharing good work, high standards of engagement and continuously measuring for improvement we can and we do contribute to Scotland being the most entrepreneurial, innovative and creative society in the world.

We take seriously our responsibility, our place in the world. 

Over the coming weeks and months we will be visable and proactive in our efforts to support businesses and enable good work to happen. This will not be in traditional ways but we are not in traditional times.

Please stay safe,

Rachael Brown,

Convener, Can Do Collective 2019 & 2020