LORD WILLIE HAUGHEY, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF CITY CHARITABLE TRUST

LORD WILLIE HAUGHEY, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF CITY CHARITABLE TRUST

THE City Charitable Trust is once again delighted to be working with the Evening Times and our other Streets Ahead partners over the coming 12 months.

In the first three years we helped scores of individuals and organisations to make a positive difference within their communities.

These people are the very lifeblood of Glasgow, they are what makes this city great.

The founding principle of Streets Ahead was that belief in the fact the one person can change the street where they live or work for the better.

And if EVERY street has one champion we can change the entire city for the better.

I still firmly believe this is the case and that is why the City Charitable Trust is delighted to help the army of Glaswegians who work so tirelessly to improve their communities for their neighbours.

Streets Ahead allows us to offer some of these local heroes a little assistance in their efforts towards making their communities better places to live and work.

What makes Streets Ahead unique is that is it the local people themselves who are leading the improvements in their areas by taking ownership of these projects and instilling pride in their communities.

I hope Streets Ahead continues to help support those who make this city great for many years to come.

GORDON SLOAN,

CHAIRMAN OF GLASGOW HOUSING ASSOCIATION

AT GHA we are delighted Streets Ahead has gone from strength to strength and we are proud to be partners once again.

Thanks to Streets Ahead, there are examples all over the city of people working together to make their communities better places to live.

Often it's the little things that can make a big difference.

Take our Local Environmental Action Forums - or our LEAFs as they have become known.

We launched them last year, encouraging tenants to help us raise environmental standards by grading their neighbourhoods and agreeing what needed to be done to bring them up to scratch.

We have been working with the tenants to draw up and implement action plans.

As always over the past year we have seen garden competitions, litter picks, fun days and a host of other projects in our communities with the young, and not so young, getting involved in equal measure.

All of that helps foster pride in our neighbourhoods - and that is what we want to achieve at GHA.

This year, Streets Ahead will widen out beyond environmental work to cover different kinds of projects that bring people together to do more for their communities.

Let's hope there are as many success stories with many more residents getting involved.

COUNCILLOR GORDON MATHESON, LEADER OF GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL

THE eyes of the world were on Glasgow like never before this summer and we put on a show that wowed the world. Glasgow's Games were quite simply the best ever and helped build on a real sense of civic pride felt across the city.

Over the last six years, schools, individuals, community groups and businesses have taken the lead in making our beautiful city a cleaner and safer place to live as part of the Clean Glasgow campaign.

Along with the council and the Evening Times they are helping look after and improve their local communities.

I am incredibly proud of the commitment shown by people of all ages and all backgrounds as part of this campaign and look forward to it continuing throughout the Year of Glasgow.

As part of its Streets Ahead campaign, the Evening Times has created hundreds of Street Champions, in recognition of the fantastic work going on in communities across the city.

These champions have been at the forefront of efforts to improve our city and are a true reflection of the fact that People Make Glasgow.

As we look ahead to Streets Ahead 2014 I am sure we will build on our recent successes and continue to make our city a great place in which to live, work and invest.