WEST SANDS DUNE CASH CONFIRMED
Published: 8th Mar 2010
THE final piece of the jigsaw needed to complete restoration work on the award-winning West Sands beach in St Andrews fell into place yesterday (Monday) with confirmation of a £30,000 grant to restore the badly damaged dunes.
As previously reported in St Andrews News www.standrewsnews.co.uk/newsdetails.html the money has come from Fife Environment Trust (FET).
The cash forms part of a £153,000 package for projects across Fife from the Trust which has awarded more than £5.6 million in grants to a variety of local projects since its formation, back in 1997.
In addition to the large grant awards, the Fife Environment Trust small grants scheme continues to be popular with local communities ‘cashing in’ on FET funds to upgrade public amenities such as play parks, village halls, scout huts and sports pavilions.
One of the smaller projects to benefit from the Trust's recent small grant awards was Madras College Parent’s Council Eco-club which has been given £3,700 towards a small orchard and community garden at the front of the school.
Other recent projects completed in the St Andrews area include North Fife Community Orchards – Fife Coast & Countryside Trust were awarded £2,250 towards the cost of purchasing and planting 140 organically-grown fruit trees of Scottish Heritage varieties at five community sites across North Fife.
The Fife Coast & Countryside Trust was also awarded £18,590 to upgrade the surface of the old drove road between Newton of Falkland and Falkland. Freuchie Community Council was granted £30,000 as a contribution towards the costs of installing a MUGA (multi-use games area) in the Howe of Fife village.
All those awards were made through the Trust’s Fife Environment and Communities Fund which uses landfill tax credits donated by Fife Council to support projects which focus on the renovation of community amenities such as village halls and recreational play areas, projects which improve countryside access, those which restore and help secure the future of historic buildings and those which support and enhance local biodiversity.
Funding from £500 to £30,000 is available for eligible projects and the next deadline for the submission of large grant applications is the end of this month. Applications to the small grants scheme can be submitted at any time.
For more information or to request an application pack, please contact the Trust’s Projects Officer Ashley Birrell on 01592 583260 or email ashley.birrell@fife.gov.uk. Application forms and associated guidance can also be downloaded from the Trust’s website, www.fifeenvironmenttrust.org.uk.
Fife Environment Trust was formed in 1997 as an independent non-profit making company to distribute funds under the 1996 Landfill Tax Act. The Trust's role under these regulations is to provide a mechanism whereby locally generated landfill tax monies can be made available to fund projects meeting the overall objectives of the Landfill Communities Fund (formerly called the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme).
FET is managed by an independent Board of Directors which includes Fife Council and Scottish Power as the main contributors and founding members plus key representatives from: Scottish Natural Heritage (Chairman) and Historic Scotland
Introduced in October 1996, landfill tax was the first 'green tax' specifically aimed at encouraging a shift to more sustainable waste management practices such as recycling and to compensate communities living in the vicinity of a landfill site.
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