Broughty Ferry Beach is Awarded 2016 Seaside Award by Keep Scotland Beautiful

Broughty Ferry beach has received external recognition for the 13th year in a row!

For the 2016 bathing season, our beach has been awarded the Keep Scotland Beautiful 'Seaside Award' and an “excellent” EU Bathing Waters classification.

It is good news that the bathing water quality there has been designated ‘Excellent’ under the stringent EU Bathing Water Classification.

To qualify for the Seaside Award from Keep Scotland Beautiful, 25 conditions need to be met including: community, access and facilities; information and education; environment management and safety. These criteria cover the provision of facilities, such as toilets, first aid, information boards and parking as well as appropriate safety management, community involvement and excellent standards of cleanliness.

The beach is a huge asset for The Ferry, the wider Dundee area. and of course the visitors from further afield.

Broughty Ferry is a designated, “bathing water” monitored by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) between June and September and is given its EU classification based on four years of data. 

The bathing season at Broughty Ferry runs from now until Sunday September 4.

Congratulations to Broughty Ferry in Bloom Awarded a Siver Gilt Medal 2015

Congratulations to Broughty Ferry in Bloom whose efforts gained external recognition at the Beautiful Scotland award ceremony yesterday. 

These annual awards reward those community organisations whose efforts improve the quality of their local environment with horticulture and the participation of their communities.

Our local group's efforts beautifying Broughty Ferry with flowers in hanging baskets and planters was recognised as very high quality earning a Silver Gilt Medal in the Coastal Towns category of the award ceremony in Perth. 

This is at least the third year in a row that the group have achieved a Silver Gilt award. Next year, I am sure the group will once again be striving for Gold!

The Broughty Ferry in Bloom Group meets on the second Tuesday of the month in Broughty Ferry library at 7.00pm.

Link to Broughty Ferry in Bloom Facebook Page

Broughty Ferry Beach Awarded Prestigious Resort Flag 2014 by Keep Scotland Beautiful

This morning, Keep Scotland Beautiful annnounced the 2014 list of 61 beaches in Scotland that had been judged to have met the standards for their Seaside Awards and once again Broughty Ferry beach is confirmed as having met the Resort Flag standard. In fact for over ten years, Broughty Ferry Beach has consistenly met this Resort Flag standard. According to Keep Scotland Beautiful:
"This award symbolises excellence in beach management and environmental best practice which ensures the maintenance of high standards so our beaches are clean, safer and sustainable for community use. Beaches are awarded either the Resort or Rural Seaside Award."

This award is in no small part due to the week in and week out collaborative work of all the partners involved in the Beach Management Group, especially the Environment Department of the City Council.

Scottish Beach Award Guide 2014

Successful Litter Pick on Broughty Ferry Beach

At lunch time today I joined a group of volunteers undertaking a litter pick on the Broughty Ferry sandy beach. We focused our attention on the stretch of beach running from the Dighty Burn towards Broughty Ferry Castle.

Whilst the volume of rubbish we collected over a period of an hour looks considerable, some of the waste materials appeared to have come from the weather damaged sand dunes. When the Esplanade was widened many years ago, some of the rubble that was deposited apparently contained rubbish.

Other rubbish collected included glass and plastic drinks bottles which had been carelessly left on the beach or thrown iinto the water and washed up on our beach.

Broughty Ferry in Bloom Awarded Their Silver Gilt Certificate 2013 from Beautiful Scotland

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Congratulations to Broughty Ferry in Bloom for another successful year. Their efforts to work with community groups and businesses to beautify The Ferry have gained further recognition at the Beautiful Scotland Awards earlier this month. 

In the picture are officer bearers Stan Nutt (left) and Mary Saunders receiving the Silver Gilt award in the Coastal Towns 2013 category.

Link to Broughty Ferry in Bloom Facebook Page

Broughty in Bloom Hopefully in the Running for Another Award from Keep Scotland Beautiful

Judges from Keep Scotland Beautiful, members of
Broughty Ferry in Bloom and Cllr Laurie Bidwell
at the Barnhill Rock Garden
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On Tuesday afternoon, I was delighted to meet the judges from Keep Scotland Beautiful who were in The Ferry to judge us against other Coastal Towns competing for The David Kerr Coastal Resort Trophy and other awards in the annual Beautiful Scotland competition. 

In Broughty Ferry, Judges Lorna Much and Kate Stevenson came to inspect the work inspired and coordinated by Broughty in Bloom. After they visited last year, Broughty Ferry in Bloom received a Silver Gilt Award. Unfortunately we will all have to wait for the Awards Ceremony on 6 September to find out whether Broughty Ferry in Bloom carry off a Gold Award this time.

Well done to Stan Nutt, Chairperson of Broughty in Bloom and his committee for their sustained commitment to enhance our environment.

Beautiful Scotland is a long-established community environmental improvement campaign run in partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society. Previously known as Beautiful Scotland in Bloom, the programme supports community groups across Scotland as they seek to improve and enhance their local environment. Beautiful Scotland is a competition with an extensive set of categories and awards, and its winners can progress to the sister Britain in Bloom competition and thereafter to the international Entente Florale.

Keep Scotland Beautiful is the independent charity which is committed to making Scotland clean and green, today and tomorrow.

Barnhill Rock Garden Wins Prestigious Green Flag Award Again

Earlier this week Barnhill Rock Garden was awarded one of the prestigious 2013 Green Flag Award from Keep Scotland Beautiful. It was one of four parks in Dundee to receive this award.

On Monday, I had rather bemoaned the fact that Broughty Ferry had apparently missed out on an award. This conclusion was on the basis of an error in the Press Release distributed by Keep Scotland Beautiful that had referred erroneously to Baxter Rock Garden and Baxter Park.

This award for our Rock Garden is in no small part a recognition of the sterling work of the Friends of Barnhill Rock Garden in partnership with staff from the Environment Department of Dundee City Council.

Parks are assessed by volunteer judges who usually have a background in parks management, conservation or ecology. They judge against eight criteria testing whether the park or green space is:

• welcoming;
• healthy,
• safe and secure;
• clean and well-maintained;
• sustainable;
• manages conservation and heritage;
• has community involvement;
• markets itself, and
• has good management.

Barnhill Rock Garden was first Awarded a Green Flag Award in 2007.

Barnhill Rock Garden is a public park extending to more than two hectares, owned and maintained by Dundee City Council with significant support from the Friends of the Barnhill Rock Garden. It is situated on part of a former nine-hole golf course which was laid out when the Dundee to Aberdeen railway line was built. It is on the Visit Scotland tourist trail and is open to the public at all times.

 

Broughty Ferry Beach is Awarded Resort Seaside Award for 10th Year in a Row

I am pleased that, for the tenth year in a row, Broughty Ferry has been awarded the Resort Seaside Award by Keep Scotland Beautiful. This was confirmed in the latest list released by Keep Scotland Beautiful last week. In total 59 beaches in Scotland have been recognised for their excellent litter management, safety procedures and water quality.

The Seaside Resort Award indicates that Broughty Ferry beach is one of the cleanest and best managed beaches in the country. 

The Seaside Award has been used as a quality mark for Scotland’s beaches for the past 21 years.