Burgh Beautiful Linlithgow

Burgh Beautiful Needs Your Support

We rely on sponsorship and donations to keep Linlithgow blooming. We hope you will consider making a donation or becoming one of our supporters.

Sponsorship

We invite sponsorship for all our hanging baskets, planters, and flower beds. Prices vary according to location, starting from £75 up to £180 or more per year.

All sponsored displays will bear a blue plaque with your chosen message or logo.

Sponsorship runs from September to the end of August, and is open to individuals (individual sponsorship is eligible for Gift Aid), groups, organisations and businesses.

Please email sponsorship@lbt.scot for availability and prices.

Donations

You can make on-line donations in multiples of £10. Or you can email sponsorship@lbt.scot and we will send you details on how to make a payment.

Join Linlithgow Burgh Trust

You can support us by becoming a member. Linlithgow Burgh Trust membership costs £10 per year. Click here for details

Fundraising Activities

Annual Plant Sale

We hold a Plant Sale at The Cross at the start of June each year (as shown on left), selling both annuals and perennial plants. We seek donations of plants and cuttings which can be brought on the day or dropped off at our Clarendon base. Please check our Facebook page for details nearer the time.

Inviting Gardens

Held biennially, Inviting Gardens offers the public a unique opportunity to explore private gardens, generously opened by their owners. Entrance to the event is granted through the purchase of a programme, with all proceeds supporting Burgh Beautiful. This popular event provides visitors the chance to peek behind the walls of some truly fascinating and beautiful gardens. The next Inviting Gardens is scheduled for June 2026.

Pub Quiz

Courtesy of Platform Three public house, we hold a popular fundraising pub quiz on a Thursday evening (first in month) sometime each year, publicised on Facebook. The quizmaster is Davie ‘Deep Sea’ Paterson to whom we are always grateful. New quiz participants always welcome, particularly if they bring along a raffle prize!

Advent Fayre

We take a stall at the town’s Advent Fayre on the last Saturday in November each year, selling raffle tickets, publications, handicrafts, Rotary calendars, cards, etc. Donations for the raffle are always welcome, as are requests for raffle tickets! Raffle tickets can be bought online on the day only for which you can order by emailing raffle@lbt.scot .

Sale of Holly Wreaths

Our volunteer, Moira Callaghan, organises the production of lovely fundraising holly wreaths every December, these being assembled by our own volunteers at our Clarendon base. If you are interested in buying a wreath or helping to make them, please email us at holly@lbt.scot .

Sale of Rotary Calendars

Every October/November, we sell copies of the calendar published by the Rotary Club of Linlithgow and Bo’ness for fundraising purposes. For every calendar sold through Burgh Beautiful, we receive a enerous donation from the Rotary Club. The calendars are £10 each (and Rotary Christmas cards are £2 each); if you want one or more, please email us at calendar@lbt.scot . In June, the Club organises a duck race from which we usually benefit – please do not hesitate to ‘buy’ a duck or two whenever they are offered!

Above, from left to right: Burgh Beautiful’s annual stall at the Advent Fayre; cover of the 2025 Rotary calendar; last year’s fundraising festive wreaths and their makers!

Gift Aid

If you have made a donation payment today and are a UK taxpayer, please complete the online Gift Aid Declaration. Alternatively, you can print out the Gift Aid Declaration form and post or email it to us.

Other Sources of Funding

The Linlithgow Town BID provides Burgh Beautiful with a substantial annual grant for which we are very grateful, and without which we would have to severely curtail our activities. We are also pleased to receive small ‘disbursements’ from our local councillors – these are usually devoted to the costs of grass cutting and the publication of our Floral Trails booklet.

For the day-to-day running of our activities, nearly all our funding is raised locally from public-spirited individuals, families, organisations and businesses; very little comes from the local authority. However, for major projects, we do make applications to external funders through established processes. We are also delighted to receive legacies, the use of which is also limited to worthwhile projects, rather than day-to-day expenses and costs; to notify us of any legacy, please email us at bbl.chair@lbt.scot .