Burntisland Christmas Lights: Each year Fife Council provides Burntisland with a Christmas tree and some fairy lights for it. All the other Burntisland Christmas lights have been bought over the years by Burntisland Community Council (BCC). We now have 30 column motif lights on the lampposts; a projector and display on St. Andrews tower; sparkling LED fairy lights at the top of Union Street / High Street; fairy lights in living trees at the Links beside the Christmas tree; in two trees at the war memorial; and uplighters in the two trees outside the High St Co-op; and internal coloured lights at the Burgh Chambers. The fairy lights in the three trees at the Porte / lower Cromwell Road are now at the end of their life and need removed. See below for details on purchases over the years.

All the lamppost motif lights and recent purchases are low voltage LED lights and as environmentally sound as we can provide. The original motifs were bought second hand at the end of a lease period.

Costs: Erecting, taking down, storaging and insuring of the column motif lights are annual recurring costs. We are grateful for support from Fife Council Local Area Planning Budget towards our recurring costs. The cost is several £1,000s  each year and in 2025 the Fife Council grant did not cover all the recurring annual costs. Costs of repairs and replacements are additional, and, along with any new purchases, are met by fundraising.

Fundraising: We now need to raise £2-2,500 annually to continue the Burntisland display, in addition to applying for an annual Fife Council grant. Here is what we have tried before: donations from local businesses, BGM, individuals, GoFundMe and can collections in local businesses. selling tickets for fundraising Concerts and Raffles. We need additional volunteers to help fundraise. Please contact us if you can help.

January 2025: Thank you to Tom Courts for his £250 donation. In 2024 we were pleased to welcome back Rosyth Concert Band for a spooky Halloween Concert and Raffle at Burntisland Old Parish Church halls. The evening raised almost £600 for the Lights Fund (and £96 for the Band, funds for 11th Fife Scouts, and a small donation to Burntisland Church who waived their hall lease fee). Many thanks to Karen Speirs and group for a £1000 donation from the dispersement of funds from the sadly now defunct Burntisland Youth Theatre. Thanks to Lee-Anne Purvis for the Lights Facebook page and GoFundMe. A can collection 2023-24 raised £205 and similar in 2024-25. In 2023 we hosted a fundraising Concert by Rosyth Concert Band, with a Raffle. This raised £622. We are grateful to various local businesses for cash donations and donations to the Raffles, and to the Big Green Market for a donation. Tom Courts has been especiaally generous.

A big thank you to everyone who helps Burntisland town centre sparkle every festive season, from Isla & Anne. To donate to the Burntisland Christmas LIghts Fund, please contact us for the CC bank details.

To start with, the Community Council had no money for lights or an electrician to erect them. £3000 was acquired from Fife Council from the local area budget and this allowed us to make a start. Each year since then, we have continued to improve the display.

In 2022 we bought four new column motif lights for the lampposts enabling us to extend our Christmas Lights display from the Porte all along the High Street to Harbour Place.

In 2023 we asked the electrician to remove all the broken fairy lights and drops from the living trees leaving the Porte fairy lights only. For Festive Season 2023-24 we bought a projector to display rotating snowflakes on St. Andrew's tower, provided sparkling white LED fairy lights in the High Street at Union Street, and bought additional fairy lights for the War Memorial trees. These new lights have been appreciated.

For Festive Season 2024-25 we replaced some of the internal coloured lights in the Burgh Chambers.

For 2025-26 we bought eight new motif lights bringing the total on lampposts to 30 and extending the display at the foot of Cromwell Rd and along the Links edge of Kinghorn Rd. We also replaced some of the internal lights at the Burgh Chambers.