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It's Your Neighbourhood

It's Your Neighbourhood

If you are part of a volunteer-led group carrying out gardening activities, looking after your local environment and involving the community, we'd love to support, celebrate and give your group national recognition through our FREE It's Your Neighbourhood initiative - part of our Climate and Nature Friendly Communities Network!

If you're not sure it's right for your group, check out this informative document that outlines what It's Your Neighbourhood is and who can take part/what sorts of projects qualify. If you are a school/nursery, please read the update for 2025 at the bottom of this page.

Support for your group

We provide support, resources and recognition for your work to improve the places you love - from online Q&A sessions, to regular newsletters, to guest blogs and networking opportunities.

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What has been so important to the Sitooterie has been Keep Scotland Beautiful's It's Your Neighbourhood scheme - it has inspired us and actively encouraged us to drive forward our community plans.

David Carruthers, Gairloch Sitooterie - Wildlife Watch Garden

Background

It's Your Neighbourhood is our community environmental improvement initiative which we manage with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) under the Britain in Bloom campaign. It runs alongside Beautiful Scotland but is non competitive and is based on the three pillars of community participation, environmental responsibility and gardening achievement.

It's Your Neighbourhood is designed for volunteer-led community groups which are cleaning and beautifying their neighbourhoods, whether through community allotments, after school wildlife clubs, school eco-groups, Friends of Park groups, or adopting pieces of derelict land.

We support and encourage participating groups from across Scotland, and recognise achievements with a series of certificates acknowledging the good work being done by communities to improve places.

Many It’s Your Neighbourhood entrants also now work with Beautiful Scotland groups adding value to beautification initiatives in villages, towns and cities all over Scotland.

Important information for schools/nurseries with growing projects - update for 2025 onwards:

  • If you are a school/nursery and have a growing project taking place in your community (not in the school/nursery grounds), and the lead organiser is either a community group or a member of the community (not the school/nursery), you are welcome to register to take part in It’s Your Neighbourhood.
  • If you are a school/nursery and have a growing project taking place within school/nursery grounds, unfortunately you can’t take part in It’s Your Neighbourhood (even if the lead organiser is a member of the community e.g. a parent/carer). Two alternative options you could consider are:
    • If you haven’t already done so, registering for Eco-Schools Scotland which is managed by Keep Scotland Beautiful and is free to join. As part of this international network of schools working to make a positive difference to the environment and their communities, you could work towards achieving the Eco-Schools green flag to fly at your school. You can watch an introductory video here.
    • the RHS Campaign for School Gardening where you can access a wealth of free support, resources and recognition.

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