Glasgow Community Planning (GCP) Ltd supports Community Planning across Glasgow. The East Area team is part of a complement of around 70 staff working for the company, both in a central support team and in five Area Teams located across the city. GCP Ltd supports the Glasgow Community Planning Partnership by means of a Service Level Agreement. The key functions and responsibilities of GCP Ltd include:
 
City Wide Level

• supporting city-wide services to work together to provide better public services
• managing centrally relevant programmes of activity and funding allocations
• co-ordinating the implementation of the city's allocation of Fairer Scotland Fund investment and overseeing progress toward agreed objectives and outcomes
• developing city-wide programmes, such as those relating to worklessness and equalities
• managing the incorporated body on behalf of the Glasgow CPP including the central management of finance, monitoring, human resources, information technology and marketing activity

• co-ordinating Local Community Planning Partnership activity and overseeing targeted regeneration work
• managing area-based programmes of activity and funding allocations
• facilitating joint working arrangements and joint planning among local community planning partners
• working with local residents and representative bodies to foster more effective community engagement within the community planning process

• supporting local work plans and servicing the Local Community Planning Partnership Board
• developing local work plans and associated action plans on community planning themes - such as working, learning, healthy, safe and vibrant - in line with the main Glasgow CPP priorities within the Community Plan
• managing and monitoring of local Fairer Scotland Fund investment