Touch Community Garden

Carnegie Rotary members have been pulling on their wellies and helping to brighten up a suburb of Dunfermline called Touch (pronounced as in ‘too’ followed by the Scottish ‘ch’ as in ‘loch’). 

We meet nearby, so as neighbours we’re helping the community garden group there to plant trees, flowers and shrubs, weed the gardens and remove the litter. Among the plantings have been purple crocuses highlighting Rotary’s involvement in End Polio Now. 

And with the help of a Rotary district grant, we’ve contributed to a container that serves as storage and a weather-proof meeting place in the garden. We’ve raised funds to contribute to installing power and water supplies.

We’ve added a micro-library, comprising an old microwave oven mounted on a post and stocked with books which local people can take and return at any time of day and night. A club member periodically restocks it with new books, and it’s proving popular.

As the garden takes shape, it’s rewarding to see that local people are coming to regard it as an attractive place to relax and enjoy friendly company.

Our support doesn’t end with the garden – we’ve also formed a productive partnership with the Touch Trust, which works for the welfare of the community, and we support its community events, food bank and other projects.