Charity match a winner for Dick's garden fund

Minto Lounge AFC organised the charity football game, played at Kelty Hearts on July 2, and raised £1,145 for Dick Campbell's efforts to create the garden in Lumphinnans.

Current Arbroath manager Dick, who played for and coached both Cowdenbeath and the Pars during his career, is raising cash for a sensory garden in the new Care Village – a campaign backed by the Times – which is being built for Fife Council.

Coach Greig Wilson, who works at Mossmorran, organised the game – which ended in a 3-2 win for the workers select – and said: "Over the last couple of years we've done charity work for the Cottage Family Centre in Kirkcaldy and Cardenden Environment Group, so we were looking to do something.

"Dick's son, Iain, helps run our team – this is the second season that he's been helping us – and we asked him to run it by his dad. I work at Mossmorran and there's a few good players; a couple of guys are senior and a couple play junior, and I knew that if we played a team from there, ExxonMobil would match what we raised.

"It was a great game and helped with our pre-season! We went back to the social club after where we had a raffle, and Kelty Hearts made a donation too."

In 2008, Dick lost his mother, Elizabeth, to dementia and, having attended the Jean Mackie Centre in Dunfermline for nearly three years before her passing, he opened a £25,000 sensory garden there in her memory in June 2013.

Such gardens offer a haven for the elderly and infirm, and features such as bird tables, running water, wind chimes and fragrant flowers also benefit people suffering from the illness.

He set a target of raising £50,000 for a garden at the Lumphinnans Care Village, which will house a new 60-bed care home, along with 30 homes for pensioners, to replace Valley House in Cowdenbeath and Jenny Gray House in Lochgelly.

The £10.3 million development is now in its final stages of construction.