CHANCES are you won't have heard of Jonathan McAllister, Alice Connelly and Rizy Mohammed... but if you live in Glasgow, you're in their debt.

CHANCES are you won't have heard of Jonathan McAllister, Alice Connelly and Rizy Mohammed... but if you live in Glasgow, you're in their debt.

The teenager, the Govan resident and the psychotherapist are all volunteers on the frontline of Glasgow City Council's Clean Glasgow campaign, which was launched exactly a year ago.

And all three will hear on Thursday whether their efforts have been recognised in the Clean Glasgow 2007 Awards.

They will be joined at the City Chambers by other volunteers, schools and businesses, who all have signed up to the campaign.

Together, the nominees have organised clean-ups, tackled waste and noise complaints, launched anti-litter drives, purged parks, streets and woodlands of rubbish and encouraged wider communities to roll up their sleeves and join in.

Council leader Steven Purcell said: "The Clean Glasgow Awards recognise the support and contribution that the people of Glasgow have made to make the city a cleaner, better place."

He is proud of volunteers such as 17-year-old Jonathan, of Knightswood, who got on his bike to take part in clean-ups not only in his local area but also in the city centre and the South Side.

"I've got to know the communities and they appreciate people from other parts of Glasgow coming to help, although I seem to be the only person who does," Jonathan said.

Psychotherapist and father-of-three Rizy Mohammed played a crucial role in the organised tidying-up of Cathcart and Sandymount cemeteries.

No fewer than 30 bags of rubbish were removed from the Muslim section of Cathcart, where Rizy's father is buried, and 100 volunteers from different faiths joined in to wash thousands of gravestones, clean up litter and remove graffiti from Sandymount, at Balornock.

Mohammed, 44, has since been inundated with requests for clean-ups, with one planned for Glasgow Central Mosque.

Other groups have also done themselves - and Glasgow - proud with their efforts.

A team from Lourdes Secondary cleaned up their school grounds and then moved onto Paisley Road West, where they handed out posters and tried to get local businesses involved.

Three of the pupils filmed the work and a DVD will now be shown to other schools and groups in the area.

Deputy principal Vincent Raeburn recalled: "We followed the fast-food litter trail and popped into some shops to remind them of their Clean Glasgow responsibilities.

"I took some before and after photographs of a bush we blitzed in five minutes, removing alcohol bottles, crisp packets, a traffic cone - and even a bank card."

Female pupils from Notre Dame High School, in the West End, collected 25 bags of rubbish on each of three litter-picks and they are now linking up with local primary schools. Last May, enterprising pupils at St Stephen's Primary, in Sighthill, donned fancy dress costumes to attract attention as they launched their anti-litter campaign alongside staff and parent helpers.

A new campaign aims to get all families at the school to make at least three pledges to become an eco-family. City businesses have also taken the clean-up campaign to heart.

Teams from the Clydesdale Bank have purged Drumchapel's Garscadden Wood of unsightly rubbish - and recreational use of the area has been on the increase since.

A team of 12 from the Yell Group, including customer operations manager Peter Burns on crutches because of a broken leg, collected 20 bags of rubbish from Kelvingrove Park.

Employees from Scottish Power, meanwhile, along with Clean Glasgow workers and volunteers from the Prince's Trust, tackled Cathcart's Spean Street - and the mounds of rubbish they removed included car batteries and exhausts.

"We collected more than 50 bags of rubbish," said graduate engineer Ross Turbet, "and our involvement will be ongoing. It's definitely a good thing to do. Local people appreciated it too."