Get Involved with Fife Council budget For the first time in the history of local government in Fife, the new Administration has published a draft budget setting out what it proposes to cut to balance the books as well as out lining the areas where it intends to invest. You can take part […]
Councillors Alex Rowley and Willie Clarke put a motion to the Cowdenbeath Area Committee two years ago to agree to put money into a pilot project that would see tuition for Piping being put into local primary schools served by Beath High School . The committee have now been told that the project has proved […]
New Centre Open Local MP Gordon Brown joined up with Area Chair Willie Clarke to do the official opening of the new £3.8 million Benarty Centre with over 150 local people present for the celebration. In his speech Willie Clarke talked about the first group that had come together 60 years earlier to get the first […]
Scottish Youth Parliament members take their campaign for a Fair Wage to Fife Council Fife Labour has proposed in its draft budget to introduce the ‘Living Wage’ for all Council employees. This will result in 2,000 workers receiving an increase in their wage bringing them up to £7.50 an hour. We do so because […]
In May this year Fife Labour set out a key pledge to support and help create more apprenticeship and training places for Fife’s young people. Now some seven months on since taking control of the Fife Council administration at that election, Fife Labour has brought forward and agreed through Fife Council a £5m […]
Fife Council leader Alex Rowley has used a derelict building in Kelty to highlight the need for Fife Council to review the powers it has to address ‘such dereliction’ in local communities and has pledged to take a campaign to the Scottish Parliament for more powers. Mr Rowley said; “I have asked officials from property, […]
Local groups and organisations can apply to the St Ninians Trust for funding. The St Ninians Environmental Fund is a legacy trust set up to distribute monies which come direct from the St Ninians Open cast west of Kelty and is to be used for the […]
Alex Rowley has set out the case for a new Sport and Community Centre for Kelty. Last week saw the first ever draft budget being brought forward and published by an Administration of Fife Council. The idea is that by publishing an actual budget you will hopefully have a better opportunity to have […]
Painting work begins on Kelty Main Street Work begun this weekend on freshening up a number of buildings on Kelty Main as part of on-going improvement works to the village centre. The Cowdenbeath Area Committee recently agreed to pay £10,000 towards the £17,000 project. Local councillor Alex Rowley welcomed the start of […]
A review of the literature by Ruth Calman The start of the school year is a busy time for Ontario principals, as they work with their teams to implement their school improvement plans. An effective school is most certainly the aim of these plans. But what does effectiveness really look like? And how […]