DUNFERMLINE Delivers picked up a gold rating at the Keep Scotland Beautiful Awards for the third year in a row.

The organisation also scooped the Best BID (Business Improvement District) in Scotland title for its work on improving the town centre environment.

Clean-up squads from Dunfermline Delivers clear and enhance overgrown or neglected areas of the town centre regularly. 

Recent clean-up projects include the area next to Home Start and the Bruce Street Hall, the space behind Velocity near the Gillespie Centre; and Music Hall Lane with peacock-themed directional signs to the High Street.

BID manager Lisa Edward said: "The judging process is rigorous – they visit every entrant for up to a three-hour walk around the town centre and a lot of work is done throughout the year leading up to judging," she said. 

"It wouldn’t be possible without the support of the BID businesses, Fife Council and all our volunteers. Our whole community works together and can quite rightly be proud of what we have achieved.”

More success was earned at the awards by Dunfermline Green Space Forum, of which Dunfermline Delivers is a partner. They won a Silver Guild Award for their Small City submission to Keep Scotland Beautiful and a Silver Guild for their Beautiful Fife submission on the wider Dunfermline area.

Councillor Helen Law, convenor of the Dunfermline area committee, attended last week's ceremony in Haddington. "Well done to Lisa and the team at Dunfermline Delivers for not only gaining the gold award but for also winning the Best Bid in Scotland," she said.

"The Green Space Forum is a relatively new group that covers wider Dunfermline so this is an impressive achievement for them, building on the work of Dunfermline in Bloom.”