16/06/2026
NEWS: BRAG Champions Local Businesses Through Scotland Loves Local Campaign
From 13 June to 20 June, visitors to the BRAG cafés in Leven and Crosshill will be invited to celebrate their own community businesses by taking part in a special promotion.
Customers will be nominating local businesses they themselves support and tell BRAG why. Throughout the week, BRAG will then showcase these stories on social media, shining a spotlight on these local businesses helping promote those businesses to a wider audience.
BRAG’s own Together Levenmouth Café, based within the innovative Together Levenmouth Hub and the Mary Pit Stop Café in Crosshill have been foundations of their local community since they opened.
The Pit Stop Café was created as part of our Pantry and Together Levenmouth Hub and Events was established to support the regeneration of Leven High Street. The Hub had faced a significant setback shortly after launch when a devastating fire in the neighbouring Poundstretcher building forced it to close for 11 months. Since reopening back in 2022, the café has gone from strength to strength, expanded to meet increasing demand and has established itself as a vibrant social hub for the community, with additional community space now available to hire both upstairs and downstairs.
Its success and impact were widely recognised in 2024 when the Together Levenmouth Hub was named High Street Hero for Mid Scotland and Fife by Scotland's Towns and the Scotland Loves Local Awards which acknowledged BRAG’s impact on people, place and the local economy.
BRAG remains committed to supporting initiatives that celebrate and strengthen the local community, and it looks forward to welcoming everybody to take part in this year’s Scotland Loves Local campaign.
Brian Robertson-Fern, BRAG Enterprises Managing Director said
“BRAG champions the Scotland Loves Local campaign because it encourages people to support small businesses in their communities, helping to strengthen local economies and foster a greater sense of pride and connection. By choosing to shop and spend locally, individuals are contributing to creating a better place to live, work, and visit, whilst strengthening community ties. This is real community wealth building in action “
