Fundraising and Christmas Lights
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). This includes: 22 column motif lights on the lampposts; fairy lights and uplighters in living trees at the Porte/Cromwell Rd, at the war memorial, and outside the High St Co-op; and internal coloured lights at the Burgh Chambers. For 2022-23 we bought four new column lights to extend the display from the Porte to the foot of the High Street. For 2023-24 we bought a projector to display rotating white snowflakes on St Andrew's tower and twinkling white LED lights for the area between St Andrew's and Albavet on the High Street/Union Street pedestrian area. We also bought additional coloured fairy lights and cable for the two trees beside the War Memorial. For 2024-25 we replaced some of the coloured lights inside the Burgh Chambers that light up the windows from within. We are fundraising for 2025-26 and looking to buy additional lights!
Costs and fundraising: Erecting, taking down, storage and insurance 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. Costs of breakages, replacements and repairs, and for purchase of any new additional lights are met by fundraising.
January 2025: Thank you to Tom Courts for his £250 donation!
2024 we were pleased to welcome back Rosyth Concert Band for a spooky Halloween Concert (and Raffle) at Burntisland old parish church halls on 26th October 7 for 7.30-9.15. 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 for the Lights Facebook page and GoFundMe.
A can collection 2023-24 raised £205.
In 2023 we hosted a fundraising Concert by Rosyth Concert Band, with a Raffle, at the big Parish Church Hall on10th November: This raised £622.
A big thank you to everyone who helps Burntisland town centre sparkle every festive season!
Our LIghts Group is now: Gemma, Isla, Anne, & Lee-Anne.
Our historic Burgh Chambers lit from within
From small beginnings in 2017 your Community Council has helped our town centre sparkle
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. We now own 22 of the motif lights. 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. We are fundraising now for new purchases for 2025-26.
