Introduction

Forth is a village that offers something for everyone.


After years of decline, the former mining village of Forth decided to start fighting back in 2000 with the setup of Forth and District Initiative, our aim is to do everything possible to beautify the community in the greenest possible way.

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The Initiative has raised, mostly through various grant bids, over a quarter of a million pounds for its various projects, the biggest single one being the establishment of a huge polytunnel to grow the plants to adorn the 56 hanging baskets and 37 barrels
which grace the streets of Forth during the summer.

The Initiative also takes on other environmental projects, ranging from collecting rainwater for the plants to using solar power for light and heat on the Forth ’eco-site‘ at Hailstonegreen.

Through working in partnership with the local community, local businesses and the local Council it is hoped to go a long way to address the issues which ’people power‘ can effect.

Volunteering is a very important feature of village life and the high volume of volunteering in Forth is the reason for the success within so many village organisations and events. Clubs, groups, events, organisations and churches cater for a wide range of ages, gender, belief and need. 

Latest News

Keep Scotland Beautiful
Flourishing Forth are delighted to have won an outstanding award for sustainable gardening in the RHS Britain in Bloom UK wide awards. This follows on from winning the RHS community award for sustainable gardening in Scotland at 14th October's Keep Scotland Beautiful online ceremony. We have also won Silver Gilt in this years Keep Scotland Beautiful awards and the RHS Scotland Award for Resilience and Overcoming Adversity. These awards celebrate all the hard work and efforts put in by Forth Initiative and the wider community who help make Forth look as good as possible throughout the year. Thanks to everyone who helps, doing jobs big and small, everyones efforts add up to make our village a great place to live. A massive Thank You to you all.

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The Forth & District Initiative A.G.M will take place on Thursday 13th November at 7pm in Forth St Pauls small church hall. All welcome

Christmas Lights

This years switch on is on Sunday 16th November 2024, at 4.30pm and Christine Fraser will be doing the honours.
Ten new lights were added in 2022, our 20th Anniversary year as these needed to be replaced.
Cloburn Quarry very kindly donated the money so we could purchase the ten lights and we are enormously grateful to them.

Volunteering

We work with residents of all ages for the benefit of our community.The group have a wider remit which includes restoration of our parks and regeneration of our village, participating in Beautiful Scotland and other award schemes.
If you have some spare time & could help with weeding at the eco site or around the village, planting our barrels & hanging baskets in the summer or if you could water the ones near where you live, please get in touch.

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