Following comments from a number of groups that the Hall was beginning to 'look a bit dated' and was like 'a hospital ward' the Association was successful in getting a grant from Fife Council to sand and refinish the floor, completely redecorate, clean the chairs, install blackout blinds and develop a display of all the old Dunshalt photos. Thanks to the sterling efforts of a group of village volunteers the whole job was completed within two weeks when most user groups were off for the summer.

Hospital Green no more!!!

The Biggest Job - sanding the badly damaged floor....

First Lacquer Coat....

Floor covered, scaffolding up on on with the paint....

Teal Voyage....

Ready for final lacquer coat....

Pictures hung....

Seats cleaned....

JOB DONE!!!

The Playpark Fund Quiz Night proved to be a most successful event, sold out weeks in advance. A 'full house' in the Hall tried to answer questions on music, general knowledge, geography, history and lots more. Thanks to the generosity of all participants the sum of £564 was raised for the Playpark Fund.

The Dunshalt Book Group is back. If you’d like to join or just find out more about the group, please come along to the Village Hall on Thursday 29 February at 7.30 pm

There will be a small fee to cover the cost of hiring the hall (depending on numbers, probably around £2.}

We meet approximately every 6 weeks and discuss one book we have agreed on. We are a very friendly group who just love reading and like to laugh together.

There’s no obligation to talk about the books if you just like to listen, but any thoughts, views and insights are always welcome.

Looking forward to seeing you

Place Plan Consultation Highlights Common Issues

The same key themes were highlighted across Auchtermuchty, Strathmiglo, Dunshalt and Gateside in this summer’s consultation for the Local Place Plan. These themes are:

• Quality of Life: Housing; Village Connections; Health and Wellbeing.
• Work and Opportunity: Enterprise; Employment; Tourism.
• Play and Leisure: Park areas; Music, theatre and festivals; Use of natural assets
• Connectivity: Transport; Active travel; Broadband.
• Environment: Routes and paths; Flood prevention; Biodiversity.

Behind these headline themes there is a mass of detail collected from the community survey and community surveys which you can see in the draft report at https://auchtermuchtytrust.org/

The next step will be to turn these themes into practical suggestions for the local place plan and community projects. There will be further consultation in coming up with these proposals