Kinghorn Community Land Association
Working for the
Community
Welcome to Kinghorn Community Land Association (KCLA) and the Wild Meadow Eco Cemetery
We’re a Scottish charity based in Fife’s beautiful coastal town of Kinghorn. Our mission is to protect the environment by acquiring and/or conserving land assets around Kinghorn for the public benefit, and to aid community regeneration in a way that respects our rural environment.
Kinghorn Community
Land Association
To sustainably protect land that’s important to the Kinghorn community, for the benefit of everyone.
Wild Meadow
Eco Cemetery
We run Fife’s only community-run and community-owned eco cemetery, next to Kinghorn Loch.
Wild Meadow Eco Cemetery
Wild Meadow Eco Cemetery Opens
Community Owned Natural Burial Ground Opens in Fife A volunteer led organisation set up to bring land into community ownership has opened Fife’s first natural burial ground. The Wild Meadow Eco Cemetery in Kinghorn will also be the first natural burial ground in...
Wild Meadow Eco Cemetery Opening
Kinghorn Community Land Association is proud to announce that The Wild Meadow Eco Cemetery at Kinghorn Loch will open in Autumn 2025 for full burials and ash burials. We are currently finalising our agreement with Fife Council for burials and record keeping. An eco...
Celebrating 10 Years of Community Ownership
March 2025 marks ten years since the Kinghorn community gained ownership of five plots of land. In 2015, Kinghorn Community Land Association (KCLA), with the support of the Community Land and Common Good funds, used community right-to-buy powers to purchase ten acres...
November 2024 update
Things are really taking off at the Wildflower Meadow Eco-cemetery! Community orchard The community orchard at the bottom of the eco-cemetery (close to the B923) has lots of apple trees, as well as some plums. The trees are still maturing, but they’re already...
KCLA was set up by local people in 2003 to preserve land around Kinghorn Loch, an area of natural beauty, for the benefit of the community. Consultations with local people revealed a pressing need for a new cemetery, so this was chosen as our first objective. In March 2015 we were finally able to purchase 3 plots of land, one of which is to become Fife’s first eco cemetery.
KCLA commissioned Edinburgh based architects Simpson and Brown to design a proposal for a columbarium as part of the eco cemetery. A columbarium is a repository for the ashes of their loved ones. When completed, this will be the first of its kind in Scotland.
In 2021, a piece of land next to the eco cemetery site, north of Oak Street, was offered for sale to KCLA. We reached out to the local community through consultation meetings, and set up a Just Giving page to raise the money needed to buy and develop the land; this campaign was successful, and KCLA acquired the land in August 2022.
Since then, the KCLA committee and volunteers have been working hard to create the first eco-cemetery in Fife. Now, in November 2025, the Wild Meadow Eco Cemetery is open and ready to serve the community.
Support Us
KCLA is a small charity – small because we are a small group of enthusiastic volunteers – but with a big purpose: to acquire and develop land around Kinghorn for the benefit of local people, preserving the rural character of the area. Our main current project is running Fife’s first and only eco cemetery! We are always looking for new members, volunteers and donations.
Working with
The Ecology Centre
KCLA has been working closely with environmental charity The Ecology Centre for a number of years. As the Wild Meadow Eco Cemetery is developed it’s anticipated that KCLA and The Ecology Centre will continue to collaborate, to maintain the landscape and provide volunteering opportunities and skills development for disadvantaged or unemployed people in the area.