Donations

£25.56 raised by Costcutter customers for CROSSGATES GREENFINGERS
Many Thanks

Donations

£52.22 change donated by Robert’s customers at Mossgreen Stores. Thanks everyone

Donations

Crossgates Greenfingers thank customers of Well Pharmacy for their contributions amounting to £30.01. Village planting starting this week.

Donations

Crossgates Greenfingers were delighted with the contributions of £27.24 donated by customers of Costcutters. Thank you all

Policies Page

A new page named Policies Page has been added to the website. This page gives access to the Policies that Crossgates Greenfingers members, volunteers and visitors will work within.

New Minutes Page

A new page has been added as a sub-page to the NEWS HISTORY page. This page will show the minutes from each Committee Meeting. This, hopefully, will keep everyone updated.

Community Garden Update

Will need to update our photos. Old shed and back wall now demolished. What a difference, it looks great and think of all the sunshine the garden will now get.

New Year Update

A new year has arrived and we are all filled with hope for the forthcoming year. We have moved to our new site and this is progressing really well. The polytunnel has been a great asset and has provided us with the perfect environment to raise our own flowers for all the planters, pots and gardens.
It was unfortunate that the yearly Fife Council event of Beautiful Fife had to be cancelled due to COVID as the villages were all looking superb in their floral displays.
The raised beds have very successful and we have produced a great variety of vegetables. The plans are being made for this year to repeat and hopefully exceed last years success.
We thank EVERYONE for all their efforts which were outstanding and the villages were all looking their very best.

TWO Cowden-Gelly community groups are celebrating after they were handed a share of funding from the National Lottery.

Crossgates Greenfingers and the Benarty Community Forum are amongst 137 local community, sports and arts groups from across Scotland who have been handed a slice of £1,245,835 in grants from its 'Awards for All' scheme.

The awards, which are of 21 that have been made across Fife and Tayside to the tune of £144,481, have been made to mark the 25th anniversary since the National Lottery's launch on November 19 1994
Since then, more than £3.1 billion has been invested into more than 64,000 good causes in Scotland thanks to lottery players, and Crossgates Greenfingers and Benarty Community Forum have received awards of £9,500 and £9,871 respectively.

Crossgates Greenfingers, who this year received a gold award from Beautiful Fife for a fourth successive year, as well as accolades for the best large village and community involvement, are to work in partnership with Crossgates Community Woodland to install a large polytunnel on land owned by the latter.
It will allow the groups to grow plants for its award-winning village displays, and act as a meeting place.

BEAUTIFUL FIFE 2019 RESULTS

Crossgates have got FANTASTIC RESULTS in the Beautiful Fife Awards.

GOLD AWARD,
COMMUNITY AWARD,
BEST LARGE VILLAGE IN FIFE
What a TERRIFIC RESULT and WELL DONE EVERYONE

Gareth form Mines Rescue

Diane, Chair of Crossgates Greenfingers, would like to give a BIG THANK YOU to Gareth from Mines Rescue who will water the Davito Cairt and the large circle. Many thanks Gareth your help is much appreciated.

New planted verge into Coaledge/Fordell

The new verge on the approach into Coaledge and Fordell has been warmly welcomed as a beautiful addition. It has been planted up with an excellent mixture of plants giving a long season of colour. Well done to all who have helped to create it and this includes Fife Council workers who have been a great help.

John McPike

Diane, Chair of Crossgates Greenfingers, would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to John McPike who has strimmed the grass around the Stumpery and the new planter on Inverkeithing Road. Thank you John your help is very much. appreciated.

Sponsors

A big thank you from Crossgates Greenfingers for all the kind donations to the Cake Stall at this years Christmas Fayre and even more thanks to the lovely people who bought cakes and raffle tickets to raise £300. This money will go towards plants for the village next year along with £1000 pound grants from Mossmorran Wind Farm Trust and from Shell UK both courtesy of Foundation Scotland. Raffle winners will be advised by Michael Loveday.

Musical Evening

There is a fundraising night planned for the 23rd March 2018. Come along and enjoy a musical evening and help support Crossgates Greenfingers to continue making the village beautiful. The above poster gives all the details.

Christmas Market 2017

The Gala Committee is having another Christmas Market. Come along and bring all the family to enjoy a day filled with fun and all things for Christmas. Crossgates Green Fingers have reserved a stall and any contributions of home baking would be very much appreciated, and all profits from their stall will help Crossgates retain its floral displays.

New Committee

After the recent AGM a new committee for Crossgates Green Fingers has been elected. This is as follows:
Chairperson: Mr Michael Loveday
Treasurer: Mrs Cynthia Black
Secretary: Still to be decided
When this has been decided I will publish here. Good luck to the new committee.

GOLD AWARD for Beautiful Fife

Crossgates has for the 3rd year running gained a GOLD AWARD for Beautiful Fife 2017. Chairperson Liz Beattie and vice chairperson Ian Macdonald attended the Awards Presentation in the Rothes Hall Glenrothes where Liz accepted the Award on behalf of Crossgates, all Green Fingers members and volunteers.

Beautiful Fife

Yesterday was judging day in Crossgates for Beautiful Fife. Chairperson Liz Beattie and Vice Chairperson Ian Macdonald escorted the judges around the village pointing out all of the outstanding floral displays. The village is looking great and everyone is hopeful of a good result. The results will not be known until later in the year. The waiting now begins!

New Members

We are very pleased to welcome new members to Crossgates Green Fingers, Ms Alana Jones, Mrs Anne Dall assisted by family and Liz Wheatley. All will be a great addition to the group.

GOLD AWARD

Crossgates has achieved another GOLD from the Beautiful Fife 2016 Competition. This Award makes all of the hard work very worthwhile. The village is looking better year on year. Crossgates Green Fingers would like to thank everyone for all their efforts in achieving this Award.

Gala Day Winners

The winner of the the "Number Squares" Hamper is:
Carol Hempseed. c/o Windmill Knowe.
The Raffle Winners are:
1st Prize - 6 Bottles of Wine goes to John and Lilian Hisox
2nd Prize - 2 Bottles of Wine goes to Diane Adamson
3rd Prize - 1 Large Box of Chocolates goes to Liz Hunter
4th Prize - 1 Box of Chocolates M. McKenna
Well done to all winners!
Green Fingers Members would like to thank EVERYONE for making this event such a success.

Butterfly Meadow

Diane, Angela and Colin Davidson (Colin is from Fife Council Parks and Leisure) met with the children from Crossgates Primary today to reseed the Butterfly Meadow at Lady Anne Court. This is the second year running that the children have helped to plant up this bed. We now have to wait for the spectacular display of wildflowers which will appear later in the year.
Click the link to view all the new pictures.

New Members/Volunteers/Sponsors

The new planting season is upon us once again and there is quite a bit of preparation to be done. If you have some time to spare then we would be delighted to hear from you. We are looking for all sorts of assistance and sponsorship or donations. The village is the holder of Gold from Fife Council Beautiful Fife and a Silver from the Royal Horticulture Association, Beautiful Scotland. We would dearly love to maintain this level of achievement and this could become a reality with your help. Check out the pdf file at the top of this page. Thank you.

Any News/Events?

If any one has any news/events they would like to highlight, put it onto the web site. Click on the link which will take you to our Contact Page. Thank you.

Christmas Eve

Crossgates Green Fingers Group would like to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas. We thank everyone for their help through out the year and hope that you all have a wonderful time at Christmas.

Christmas Event

If parents who took pictures of their children visiting Santa Claus and would care to share them with us so we could put them on to the web site, please contact Liz Beattie. Thank you.

The Christmas Event was a great success!
Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, particularly the children. The Crossgates Primary School Choir were excellent and we thank Santa Claus for sparing some of his valuable time to come and give out selection boxes to all the young children.

A special thank you to everyone who helped make the evening a success.

Tesco Delivers

Today Tesco Store at Dulloch have come up trumps for Crossgates Green Fingers Group. One of our members was shopping for Christmas Selection Boxes at this store with the hope of buying a number them to give away to the children in our village. Sadly she was only allowed to purchase 10 Selection Boxes at the reduced price. On further enquiries after speaking to Fiona, the duty manager, Cynthia was allowed to purchase the full amount required, 250 in total AND was given another 10 free. Needless to say our group is over the moon at the generosity of Tesco and cannot thank them enough.
Merry Christmas Tesco!!!

Christmas Events

Starting on Sunday 22nd November at 10.00am with the delivery of 2015 Christmas Tree the next few days are going to be busy and packed full of fun. Check out the above poster for details and if there is anyone who can help or participate in making these events even more enjoyable contact Aileen Todd at aileengrooms@hotmail.co.uk or Pam Poole at pam.poole@ncr.com

Fund Raising Event

The fund raising event in the 540 Masonic Hall on Friday 30th October has been a great success. The evening was attended by members and their guests and villagers alike and the entertainment was first class. There was a raffle with many excellent prizes and was subsrcibed to very well indeed. Tickets included a light supper provided by members and was a huge success. We would like to thank everyone who participated in making this event such a sucess. Well done to all.

Crossgates Events Committee

Join into the discussions of what is happening within the village.

SILVER AWARD

This is our first venture into Beautiful Scotland and although our hopes were high we have been absolutely knocked sideways in achieving a SILVER AWARD. We are all totally delighted and would like to thank all volunteers who participated to make this possible.

GOLD AWARD

After many years of hard work and dedication we have now won a GOLD AWARD from Beautiful Fife. The great feeling of achievement and recognition for all the effort put into the village by everyone has been realised. Well Done to everyone.

Plans for the coming Seasons

It's been eight years since Crossgates Green Fingers group was established with three local woman hoping to cheer the village up with some flowers and tubs ..there have been many projects over the years following on from the opening of the community garden ..and the group now ranges from between ten to fifteen, with folk opting in and out as life dictates ..

We are always looking for volunteers to help with areas and water tubs and of course we are always looking for donations - sponsorship or fundraising ideas as every little bit helps - and as the years go by, it becomes more difficult to access grants and funds which is what we rely on to operate.

Next year we want to grow more pollinator plants around the village - and would like to encourage more bees

We would like to work with the primary school on a Bee project.

Encourage villagers to have a lavender pot on their window scill.

Have a bee rockery.

Have a Best Bee competition ( bees on sticks rather than scarecrows).

And become more self sufficient by having irrigation and heating systems in our poly tunnel so that we can utilise this more efficiently and grow more of our plants from seed.

A few years ago Crossgates Green Fingers  brought a Xmas tree and Santa back to the village. This was the first tree that had been in the village for about 21 years .. The group fundraisers did events throughout the year in order to raise cash so that Santa could give a selection box to the local children.

Last year we gave out around 200 free selection boxes .. This isn't a council funded project so if you have any suggestions about fundraising - would like to donate or sponsor - or even volunteer your time for a few hours here and there then we would welcome suggestions, comments or cash :)

Cheques should be made to Crossgates Green Fingers ..

C/O Angela Harris
Grants Officer
10 Cobden Court
High grove Park
Crossgates ky48au

Ideas here or Aharrisang@aol.com

Thank for you interest - The Green Fingers Team

Judging Days

Well the judging days have come and gone. All our very hard work and dedication over the past few months have really been worth it when you see how the village is looking now. We will have to be patient and await the results to find out how we have faired.

Gala Day Pictures

Although the start of the Gala Day was a bit wet and soggy, the weather cleared up really well and was sunny and warm. Check out the Scarecrow Winner's picture.

Inverkeithing Road New Beds

I, on behalf of the Crossgates Green Fingers would like to thank Mr John Collier for giving the Group 2 loads of terrific looking top soil for these 2 new beds. Added to this is some sandstone boulders for the same beds. We are also getting some large flintstone boulders from Duncan Collier. These are all terrific and we are extremely grateful.

Scarecrows

We have been around the village taking pictures of all the Scarecrow entries. The turnout has been grand and the Scarecrows are are absolutely terriffic!! If you like what you see and wish you had entered, please go to the Contact Page and fill in the details and we will come and photograph your Scarecrow and enter it into the competition. Thanks to all who have entered.

Pharmacy Gardens Stage 2

The new gardens created at the Pharmacy have progressed to stage 2 with the planting of the hydrangea shrubs. Liz Beattie and Diane Adamson did all the digging and planting.
More new features in the shape of large whiskey barrels (empty ones) have been positioned on Springhill Brae. These were very heavy, and thanks to the supreme efforts of Michael, Cynthia and Diane they are now in place waiting to be planted up.

Wildflower Maze is Planted

Today children and teachers from Crossgates Primary School, with assistance from members of the Greenfingers Group, sowed the wild flower seeds in the new Maze Butterfly Garden. The children were very excited and had a great time coming back time and again for more seeds. They will see the results of their efforts in about 12 weeks.
Click on the above link to view their pictures.

Scarecrow Trail

This year, for the first time ever, Crossgates is having a Scarecrow Trail. All the children in the village can make a Scarecrow and put it in the garden, hang it onto the fence, put it up a tree, (safely and with the help of an adult). Entry forms are being distributed around the village, at the school and in the local shops, and in the Miners Institute. There is no entry fee and there will be a prize for the best Scarecrow.
All entry forms and Scarecrows should be in place by 21st June 2015.
Winners will be announced on the Gala Day.

Miners Institute Gardens

The beds at the Miners Institute have been cleared of all plants including the tree stump. The hydrangeas were removed on Monday by Diane and she has temporarily replanted them until there final placement is ready. The shrubs going up the path have all been trimmed into a ball shape, as have some similar shrubs in the Community Gardens.

More progress

The new projects are now moving along at a good pace. The two new beds up at the doctors surgery have been cut out, and the planters that were there are now located further down Main Street, and they look very much at home in their new position. The new tree baskets are in place on Inverkeithing Road in the new beds.

Progress

The two new formal beds on Inverkeithing Road are now under construction. The ground was broken today with the removal of the grass. The planters have been repositioned to their new permanent position.

Group Meeting on 23rd February 2015

A meeting was held today, 23rd February 2015, to discuss the way forward for our new and existing projects.