Fife community group wins at annual awards ceremony

Growing Kirkcaldy wins award at this year’s Climate and Nature Friendly Communities Network event 

The annual seminar, hosted by environmental charity Keep Scotland Beautiful, took place at Stirling’s Albert Halls on Tuesday 10 November with 200 people in attendance representing community gardening groups from all over Scotland. 

Growing Kirkcaldy won the VisitScotland Award for Tourism and also received a Gold certificate. Dunfermline Greenspace also received a Certificate of Recognition. 

The awards ceremony brought both Beautiful Scotland competitors and It’s Your Neighbourhood participants together and there was more success for the city of Fife with 13 community gardening groups receiving It’s Your Neighbourhood certificates. 

Juliette Camburn, Senior Community Initiatives Officer at Keep Scotland Beautiful, said:

“Congratulations to our Fife groups for all their success at this year’s ceremony. 

“To every community gardening group who received a certificate or award today, we’re equally proud of your efforts and commitment to improving your spaces. You are all doing so much across the country to restore nature and biodiversity to make our country and communities a better place for all and it’s wonderful to be able to celebrate everyone’s hard work together at our annual ceremony.” 

Heather Anderson MSP, Scottish Environment LINK Nature Champion for Community Green Space, commented:

“I’m absolutely delighted to be your Nature Champion for Community Green Spaces with Keep Scotland Beautiful. I want to thank all of the volunteers today for all the work they do keeping Scotland beautiful, and keeping our open spaces looking great.  I want to celebrate the fact that this work has been going on for 60 years – here’s to the next 60 years; let’s get this job done!” 

The efforts of Keep Scotland Beautiful and its Climate and Nature Friendly Communities Network support the Scottish Government's recently published Public Engagement Strategy for Climate and Nature, which aims to engage the people of Scotland in meeting the challenges of a changing climate and biodiversity loss. 

This year’s awards ceremony was made possible with support from The Abbey Group. 

It’s Your Neighbourhood is supported by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). 

Keep Scotland Beautiful’s Climate and Nature Friendly Communities Network is made up of more than 200 community groups across Scotland, working together to make our country more nature friendly. 

If your group would like to join and receive free support, resources and become part of our network, find out more: https://www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/climate-and-nature-friendly-communities-network/