Caring staff at Leys Park care centre have raised money for their residents by going to battle as "tartan warriors".

Four staff members and their friends from the care home in Dunfermline took on a gruelling obstacle course by jumping over bales of hay, scaling eight feet walls, tunnelling under a burn and flipping tractor tyres over the five-kilometre race near Kincardine.

"It was very hard and we had to cope with lots of mud as we were in the last batch of around 800 runners," said Tracy Feeley, activities coordinator at Leys Park.

"We were lucky with the weather – the sun was scorching, which was a bonus because it’s hardly ever like that round here.

"It was the first time we had competed at anything such as this, but we all gritted our teeth and completed the course and we had fun even though it was so tough.”

The charity adventure took place in Devilla Forest and Tracy was accompanied by her daughter Ciara, 14, home manager Jamie Taylor and his partner Chris King, chef Mercer Chesters and her 14-year-old daughter Charley, and Jade McKenzie, a member of the domestic staff.

When all the sponsorship money comes in they hope to have raised nearly £300 towards projects to create new facilities at Leys Park Care Centre, which is based in the grounds of the former Northern Hospital in Dunfermline and has beds for 64 residents.

Home Manager Jamie Taylor said: "We have a lot of plans at our home to enhance activities and the environment for those of our residents who have dementia.

"For instance we are creating a post office and shop, where our residents can collect their pensions and purchase items they want – just as they used to in the community.

"We are also redecorating our Pitreavie unit in a colourful, dementia friendly way."