Legacy group smashes through fundraising target in 10 months

A Cowdenbeath voluntary group has exceeded its £20,000 fundraising target in less than a year.

The Broad Street Centre Legacy Group have just received a substantial amount of money from Shell UK and Fife Council’s Cowdenbeath area committee, bringing their total to an impressive £24,000.

Shell, which operates the nearby Fife NGL plant at Mossmorran, donated £3,500 towards a public exhibition of photos marking nearly four decades of youth work in the town, while £3,000 from the area committee will fund an awards night to recognise the huge effort of centre volunteers, as well as an indoor street party for local residents.

The legacy group was set up to organise a series of events and projects to mark the closure of the Broad Street Centre in the autumn, after 40 years of community work.

It was one of the first community-run centres in Fife and projects include a heritage video and a time capsule including some of the mementos from the centre.

More than 3,000 pictures have been found and the Shell grant will allow the group to buy new exhibition equipment to create a digital archive.

Legacy group chairman Danny Kinloch said: “It’s a fantastic achievement to burst through our fundraising target already, and we want to say a huge thanks to Shell and of course our partners at Fife Council for their very generous donations.

“There will be plenty of people in the town who went to youth clubs at the centre and remember the trips to Mossmorran over the years, so it’s fantastic that the company are involved right up to the end.”