Fife Pride returns for 2026 bigger and with a new venue for the celebrations
With a new venue this year’s Fife Pride looks set to be even bigger and better than before.
The celebration of equality and diversity is once again set to bring thousands of people into Kirkcaldy for a parade and an afternoon and evening of live entertainment on Saturday, July 4.
But instead of making their way through the town centre for celebrations in the Town Square as in previous years, for 2026 the crowds will take a longer route to Beveridge Park.
The move comes due to the growth and popularity of the annual event.
And this year the park will host the entertainment with highlights including live music feature a range of performers, a licensed bar, food vendors and community stalls showcasing local charities and small traders.
Jill Savage, vice convenor of Fife Pride, said: “We’ve got a new location, a bigger site, more stallholders and a fantastic headliner this year.
"We wanted to be able to grow our event, not just because we have become more popular, but the things we were being asked by the community to provide we were going to struggle to do within the Town Square.
"We’ve got no means of being able to grow the venue in the Town Square and it does get quite crowded, quite busy and we have problems with accessibility.
"We would have had to compromise by not having a stage or not having stalls or something like that and it was going to mean the site would be quite disjointed. We wanted to try and keep things in the same place.
"This year we’re going under the banner of Pride without Barriers so we wanted to try and make it as accessible as possible and the increase in size of the venue will allow us to make sure that there’s plenty of space for people to move around, and for wheelchairs to be able to get in and out of locations.
"We have an accessible viewing platform and a fully accessible toilet on site.
“We have a quiet zone that is for use by anybody that needs to be a little further away from the action but still wants to be involved in Pride and we will have BSL interpreters on stage for the speeches. We’ll also have a youth zone for younger people.
"Our headline act this year is Divina De Campo who came one of the runners up in the first season of Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK.”
Fife Pride is one of the highlights in the Lang Toun summer calendar, and is free to attend.
The event starts with a parade through the town centre with everyone mustering outside Fife College’s St Brycedale campus for a 12 noon start.
The route heads down Kirk Wynd and along the High Street. Rather than going up Whytescauseway, the procession will continue along to Nicol Street before making its way up into the Beveridge Park.
Sponsors Stagecoach will be providing a free bus to provide access for those who are unable to walk the route.
Jill said: “The bus will follow the majority of the route, but obviously it can’t go along the High Street.
"Stagecoach will also be running a free bus to take people from the park to and from the bus station. We are envisaging a lot of people coming who maybe don’t come from Kirkcaldy so this will give them the option to get to and from the park safely and in a reasonably direct way.”
This year’s headline sponsors for the event are Fife Sports and Leisure Trust.
The team will do a little warm up session at the beginning of the event which will help boost everybody’s energy and get everybody in the party mood before the acts start.
Organisers have set up a ‘fitness and wellbeing zone’ where the trust will showcase some of their activities. Other local fitness and wellbeing groups will also be showing what they have to offer too.
Sharron McCormick, marketing communications and sales manager at Fife Sports and Leisure Trust, said: “We are proud to be the headline sponsor of Fife Pride and to support an event that brings people together in such a positive and meaningful way.
"At Fife Sports and Leisure Trust, we are committed to creating welcoming and inclusive spaces where everyone feels safe, supported and able to take part.”
In making the move away from the Town Square to Beveridge Park, Fife Pride organisers said Fife Council had been very supportive.
Jill continued: “We still want to promote Kirkcaldy as a town and as a whole.
"There are other organisations and businesses who have events planned and are going to be doing things after Pride to keep the party atmosphere going.
"For instance, The Hive, just off the High Street have a fantastic programme of events planned during the day.
“It’s about fostering that sense of community with a whole day of celebration for the whole town.
“The fact we are right at the end of the Lang Toun Fest celebrations it feels like we’re a fantastic final flourish of all the events that have been going on.
“Overwhelmingly, our event is a community event, not just the LGBTQIA+ community but also the whole Fife community.
“We encourage everybody to attend – bring your children, bring your pets. Come along, enjoy the park. We’re really looking forward to it. Everything’s coming together and it’s looking really really good.”
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