By Graeme Bletcher

PLANS TO build a skate park in Glenrothes in memory of a local teenager, have received a welcome boost with the announcement of £30,000 extra funding.

Fife Environmental Trust (FET) awarded the money to the campaign, run by family and friends of Stefan Drummond, who died in June 2005 from an undiagnosed heart condition.

The donation brings the total to over £120,000, almost half the amount required to begin work, with Fife Council having put in £80,000 last year.

Blueprints have already been submitted to planners, with the town’s Riverside Park the proposed site for the concrete park.

FET chairman David Hughes Hallet said, “The trust is delighted to be giving to this project which will undoubtedly benefit the local community.

“All applications are assessed very carefully before they are approved.

“We are providing about 10% of the total funding for the skate park, which at £30,000, is the maximum amount we give to any one group.”

The trust decide on funding applications twice a year, using landfill tax credits to support environmental, biodiversity, community and heritage projects.