Welcome to Fife Coast & Countryside Trust

The Fife Coast and Countryside Trust is an independent charity working with partners for a healthy environment that supports wellbeing and sustains the balance between people and nature.

Spread across more than 70 sites, FCCT maintains the Fife Coastal Path, Fife Pilgrim Way, the Lomond Hills Regional Park, local nature reserves, and award-winning beaches. The organisation has its headquarters at Harbourmaster’s House in Dysart where it manages a coastal visitor centre.

Mission Statement 

Connecting Environment and People 

Vision 

We lead in the care of Fife’s outdoors. Working together with you, we create a healthier environment that supports wellbeing and sustains the balance between people and the natural world.

Engage


We rely on the support and generosity of the public to fund our vital project work which helps to conserve and enhance Fife’s great outdoors.

Latest News


Friday, November 15 Nov 2024

Eden Estuary November Newsletter

As expected with Autumn the weather can be changeable, with some changeable days and also..

Events


FCCT offer a range of events, activities conservation activities, guided walks and family friendly events to encourage the younger generation to develop a love of the environment.

Resources


We’ve got you covered

This section includes an extensive range of downloadable resources, including themed walks
and information leaflets, which are sure to enhance any visit to Fife.

fifecoastalpath

Competition time! Win cash to spend in our online shop and the kudos of your photographs going in front of 33,500 people. We’re looking for the best photos from you to share in our 12 Days of Christmas social media posts. We’ll pick our 12 favourite images and share them in our social media for 12 days starting on Christmas Day. Your photos must have been taken outdoors in Fife.
Send us pictures of nature, wildlife, views, the Fife Coastal Path, the Fife Pilgrim Way, the Lomond Hills Regional Park and other sites we manage. Use a camera or smartphone. 
What to do:
- Email your photo as an attachment to ask.us@fifecountryside.co.uk by 5pm on Monday 2 December 2024
- In your email, tell us your name, and where in Fife your photograph was taken*
- Maximum of 3 pictures per person
- All ages welcome to enter

The winner will be the person whose picture achieves the highest total reach across our three main social media platforms: FCCT on Facebook, Fife Pilgrim Way on Facebook and Fife Coastal Path on Instagram by midnight on Monday 13 January 2025. The owner of the winning photograph will receive a £25 voucher to spend in our online shop. Two runners-up will receive £10 each to spend in our online shop. https://fifecoastandcountrysidetrust.co.uk/shop/

* By emailing us your photo[s], you consent to it/them being used by Fife Coast and Countryside Trust in our social media and in our future marketing. Audience of 33,500 made up of Fife Coast and Countryside Trust Facebook (20,320); Fife Pilgrim Way Facebook (9,050), and Fife Coastal Path Instagram (4,070). Employees of FCCT and their households are not eligible to enter this competition. One winner and two runners-up in total. You will be contacted by email if you are the winner or a runner-up. We will post the winning and running-up photos across our three main social media platforms on or after Tuesday 14 January 2025. We will ask for your consent to share your name, and where in Fife the photograph was taken, to share in these posts.

#competition #photocompetition #photochallenge #loveFife #FCCT #FifeCoastalPath
Explore the Fife Pilgrim Way by bike with Greener Kirkcaldy and our own expert Iwan Thomas. This bike ride takes in historic North Queensferry, Inverkeithing and the city of Dunfermline. Iwan and the other leaders will point out historical sites that you may not have noticed before - like Inverkeithing Hospitium here. And they can open your eyes to wildlife and nature.

The bike ride is on Saturday 16 Nov 10.30am to 2.30pm. Places are free but booking is essential. Please click the link below for lots more info and how to book.
https://www.greenerkirkcaldy.org.uk/event/fife-pilgrim-way-bike-ride-north-queensferry-to-halbeath/

#GreenerKirkcaldy #FifePilgrimWay #FCCT #cycle #biking #activetravel #getonyourbike #loveFife @welcometoFife
An acorn of an idea from Fife Tree Warden, Colin Andrews, means great oaks will grow across the Kingdom. For 10 years, Colin has been growing and nurturing 200 oak trees from acorns gathered in Fife. He's grown the oaks in his own garden and is working with community groups to plant them across Fife as part of a wider art project to create a future forest. Big thanks to Colin for a donation of oak trees ahead of our team's community tree planting season. 

The 'future forest' project is called akin. Read more and see some fantastic photography here: https://www.colinandrews.art/project/akin/

And find out how you can help Fife Climate Forest to grow: https://fifecoastandcountrysidetrust.co.uk/projects/tree-warden-scheme/

@climateactionfife @colinandrewsart 
#FifeClimateForest #ClimateActionFife #communitywoodlands #trees #oak #fife #scotland #autumn2024 #fall2024