Revealed: Fife parks and green spaces getting less lottery cash than others in Scotland

Yet squeezed council budgets across the UK have left many communities more reliant on other ways of raising cash to care for these refuges. A significant source is lottery funding.

Parks and similar green spaces in Fife – or projects directly linked to them – received £1.4 million from the National Lottery Heritage Fund in the decade to 2019-20, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

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Fife’s share was part of £406 million handed out for parks and similar green spaces across the UK over the period.

It was equivalent to just £3.71 per person in the area, based on Office for National Statistics population estimates – lower than the average of £6.81 across Scotland.

The data includes funding for public parks and squares, cemeteries and pay-to-enter gardens.

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