Communities

Michael Enston
Executive Director Communities

Fife House
North Street
Glenrothes, KY7 5LT

The Communities Directorate brings together a range of services which deliver directly to/with communities and works to improve our local connections to provide an increasingly responsive, co-ordinated public service with and for our residents.

How do we do this?

Communities and Neighbourhoods - Functions whose focus is on community development and engagement, voluntary sector support, community planning, performance management and improvement, local co-ordination and policy, plus project support for key strategies including anti-poverty, health and wellbeing, safer communities and community learning.

Customer Service Improvement - Delivers and provides access to a range of Council Services through Customer Service Centres, the Contact Centre, and online/self-service.  The service also manages the council’s customer strategy and standards of customer service, the complaints process, information requests, communications and marketing, and emergency resilience planning/business continuity.  

Corporate Services Resources - The Resources Section provide a range of support for colleagues in Communities Direcorate as well as providing direct support to other Council colleagues (Mail Courier Services)

Housing Services - Managing the council’s housing stock, housing access including homelessness services and housing development.  

Area Services -  A range of leisure and community resources functions across sports strategy and partnerships; community use and access to facilities; halls and centres; parks, streets, countryside and open spaces; community safety and bereavement services.s and community learning.

Fife Sports & Leisure Trust - Fife Sports and Leisure Trust, established on 1 April 2008, manages twelve sports and leisure facilities across Fife on behalf of Fife Council.