Keep Scotland Beautiful

Keep Scotland Beautiful is the independent charity which campaigns, acts and educates on a range of local, national and global environmental issues which affect people’s quality of life. It is committed to making Scotland clean and green, today and tomorrow.

Eco-Schools

Eco-Schools is an international programme designed to encourage whole-school action on sustainable development education issues. It is an environmental management tool, a learning resource and a recognised award scheme. It empowers young people to take action towards an economically, socially and environmentally just world.

Young Reporters for the Environment

Young Reporters for the Environment is an international sustainable development education programme for young people aged 11-21. It empowers and encourages young people to investigate and report on environmental concerns and issues of sustainable development.

Clean Up Scotland

Clean Up Scotland is the mass-engagement campaign which aims to quickly remove litter and mess so that Scotland shines when the world is watching in 2014, and to gradually change behaviour so that littering becomes as socially unacceptable in future as drink-driving is now.

Beautiful Scotland

Beautiful Scotland is a long-established community environmental improvement campaign run in partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society. Previously known as Beautiful Scotland in Bloom, the programme supports community groups across Scotland as they seek to improve and enhance their local environment.

People and Places

People & Places is a partnership programme for local authorities and other land managers or duty bodies which aims to bring about an improvement in the cleanliness and quality of the environment on publicly accessible land through effective, efficient management and targeted action.

It's Your Neighbourhood

It's Your Neighbourhood is a community environmental improvement campaign run in partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society and supported by McDonald's. It runs alongside the Beautiful Scotland programme but is non-competitive with a greater emphasis on community participation than on horticultural improvement.

Seaside Awards

The Scottish Seaside Awards programme exists to reward good beach management, which increases the pleasure local people derive from their beach and also benefits the local economy through an expansion in tourism.

Blue Flag

The Blue Flag is an internaltional beach award programme, operational in almost 50 countries worldwide. The award covers environmental education and information, water quality, environmental management and, safety and services.

Sustainable Scotland Network

The Sustainable Scotland Network (SSN) supports public sector action on sustainable development, focussing on climate change and sustainable procurement. Building on over a decade's work with local government, SSN now gives its support to the whole Scottish public sector.

Climate Challenge Fund

The Climate Challenge Fund (CCF) is a Scottish Government programme, managed and administered by Keep Scotland Beautiful, which provides funding for community groups that are tackling climate change through local community-led projects.