The Clean Glasgow Community Campaign is an ambitious new initiative to promote a range of local environmental activity that engages communities, promotes partnership working, and encourages a holistic, integrated and sustainable approach towards local regeneration and the enhancement of local environments.
 
The initiative is governed by Glasgow City Council in partnership with key partners including Glasgow Community Planning Ltd, Communities Scotland, the Glasgow Housing Association, and Glasgow Community and Safety Services. Press and publicity support is being provided by the Evening Times.It will initially run from 2006 to Spring 2008, and have a total budget of approximately £4m, of which the Glasgow Community Planning Partnership is contributing £1m of the costs.
 
The initiative complements the focus of Community Planning by seeking to build capacity within communities through identifying local solutions for local problems. It comprises a series of works which will be delivered as a programme in order to ensure best value for communities.  The range of activity forms a comprehensive approach to taking forward the Clean Glasgow and Vibrant Glasgow agendas, with a particular focus of promoting these agendas in areas that can often be affected disproportionately by environmental degradation and associated anti-social behaviour – i.e. those located within the most deprived communities.  A key underlying theme of these projects is to encourage community participation and ownership of the Clean Glasgow agenda at a local level through a new Neighbourhood Charter, as well as identifying and enacting preventative measures.  
 
The main elements of the programme include:

• Delivery of a Clean Glasgow Neighbourhood Charter 
• Clean Glasgow Community Action Team:  To focus on taking forward the Charter and encouraging communities, groups and schools to sign up to it.   CGCAT will be responsible for developing resources, coordinating responses, ensuring cohesion across the dedicated teams and coordinating community led clean up campaigns.  CGCAT will provide appropriate training and resources such as skips, clothing and safety equipment, graffiti kits, etc.
• Dedicated Community Safety Patrol Officer resource:  A critical role of the CSPO activity will be to increase the level of reporting of incidents and complaints as these are traditionally low in such areas.  They will be responsible for issuing enforcement notices on individuals committing offences relating to the environment.  They will also maintain a key link to the coordination of community led clean ups
• Dedicated Graffiti Team:  The Team will work not only to remove graffiti promptly but will also play a key role in the CG Neighbourhood Charter, by working with communities on clean up campaigns
• Neighbourhood Management (NM) branding and marketing
• Training and employment environmental projects 
• A youth project aimed at engaging young people about relevant issues