An Angus fishing village believes its 800th anniversary celebrations have made the community stronger.
Wendy Murray, leader of the Easthaven 800 steering committee, said the legacy of the octocentenery has also seen them make many new friends.
Highlights during the 800 project were the development of Easthaven’s community garden, which was featured on the Beechgrove Garden.
Wendy said: “When residents first began to talk about their forthcoming octocentenary year we could never have envisaged that our hopes and ambitions would be realised on such an enormous scale. However, having decided that we were going to try and achieve as much as possible in our special year we embarked on a journey of epic proportions.
“Projects such as the exhibition, the creation of heritage bunting, interpretation boards, the book and the community garden all provided opportunities for Easthaven to engage with people across the UK and further afield.
“This was critical to our success as being a population of just over 100 we couldn’t possibly have achieved all our ambitions without the support of a much wider community.”
“Obvious highlights that spring to mind are the completion of the Beechgrove community garden, Heritage Point and Queen’s Baton Relay,” she said. “The showcasing of our commemorative music was also a very poignant moment at our festival, and there was hardly a dry eye in the vicinity.
“We realised that ordinary everyday citizens in Scotland have the power to create change and make improvements in their communities if they work together.
“We have made many new friends and our community is much stronger as a result.
“We didn’t set out to win awards, but our work led to us achieving a SilverGilt from Beautiful Scotland and the VisitScotland Tourism award for 2014.
“In November we also won the prestigious Herald Society award for the community project of the year.”
She added: “I think it’s fair to say that all those who have been involved in feel proud of what has been achieved and that there is a noticeable increase in respect for our community.
“We hope that in 100 years the residents of Angus will look back and also be proud of what we achieved.”