Go Girls
FDT are delighted to have supported the girls Strathendrick Rugby teams touring Stockholm this summer.
NEW grants and financial support
We’re delighted to announce our new grants and financial support for the Fintry community. Two new grants, available now: Green Gardening Grant: Up to £1000 available. Households only. This grant has been designed to encourage and enable Fintry households to grow fruits, vegetables and pollinator friendly plants; plant native species of trees and shrubs, add […]
Free Adult Cycle Lessons
Would you like to feel more confident cycling on the road? Are you keen to start cycling but haven’t ridden a bike since childhood? Maybe you are about to start commuting to work by bike, or want to replace a regular car journey with something more active? Refresh your practical cycle skills and boost your […]
Picnic in the Garden
Following on from the success of last year’s picnic for the children of Fintry, Fintry Community Council, supported by Fintry Development Trust and community volunteers are planning to hold another picnic on June 21st. FDT will sponsor a competition for FPS children to complete at school or at home which features Bees, Caterpillars and Butterflies. More […]
Fintry Primary School Outdoor Classroom
Fintry Development Trust has agreed to fund the tree surgery work required to make the outdoor classroom at Fintry Primary School safe for use. It’s a unique and very beneficial asset for the school and our Board wished to support its use again after a long period of closure, now that funds are available.
University Of Strathclyde Student Presentations
Fintry Development Trust and the wider Fintry community have been working with the University of Strathclyde students on the Renewable Energy and the Chemical and Process Engineering Sustainable Engineering courses. The student’s projects all examine different aspects of how renewables work within Fintry and look at solutions to the challenges faced in our rural community. If interested in […]
Energy Efficiency Grant – Round 3
We’re delighted to be able to offer a third funding round of Energy Efficiency Grants. The new round of funding opened on Monday 1 April and offers homeowners in Fintry up to £1,000 for making energy efficiency measures in their home. All you need to do, is get a quote from your preferred supplier and send […]
RTS – Radio Teleswitch Service
IMPORTANT NEWS -PLEASE READ ON Ofgem, alongside Energy UK and consumer groups, has launched a major advertising campaign urging customers with Radio Teleswitch Service (RTS) electricity meters to upgrade before the service ends on June 30, 2025. RTS meters, introduced in the 1980s, use radio signals to switch between peak and off-peak rates; their deactivation […]
Party Pack
FDT are proud members of Circular Communities Scotland We respect the world’s finite resources and wherever possible we embrace the opportunity to minimise waste, to reuse and repair before purchasing new. One of our former trustees has developed the Party Pack Project which offers a full party kit for any local party or event and includes […]
CHDP (Community Heat Development Program)
With funding from the Scottish Government CARES programme, we will shortly be running a small project investigating the development of a collective purchase program of renewable heating systems. This would be for householders in Fintry and would include the replacement of aging, and some failing, existing renewable installations as well as the replacement of traditional, […]