IT is the biggest opportunity to show off your green credentials and entries are flooding in to the Evening Times.

This year's Streets Ahead Awards, will take place on June 19 and reveal the city's top green champions.

So if you want your project to be included, get your nomination in today.

The Evening Times and Clean Glasgow are hosting the awards in honour of the men, women and children who have transformed our city over the past 12 months.

We want to hear about the people you think are making a difference, whether it's clean-up kings and queens, gardening gurus or inspirational businesses.

Send us your stories and your photographs, and as much information as possible about your project, in time for the closing date of May 23.

We will be awarding eight prizes, including an overall winner to be announced at a special ceremony in the Winter Gardens at the People's Palace on Glasgow Green on June 19.

Supported by our other Streets Ahead partners - Glasgow Housing Association, ScotRail, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the City Charitable Trust, the event will pay tribute to the wonderful work being done around the city.

Primary, secondary, nursery and ASL schools across Glasgow have supported Streets Ahead enthusiastically since it launched in 2011.

In the East End, for example, children from two primary schools are working to transform one of the area's busiest stations.

It is an unusual spot for a gallery, but if the pupils of Golfhill and St Denis' Primary Schools have their way, Duke Street Station's platform will soon be the city's newest art hotspot.

Supported by ScotRail, the children are working hard to create their own paintings and drawings to brighten up the platforms as part of a major Streets Ahead project.

Pupils have already helped to build planters and plant bulbs and flowers.

Golfhill teacher Elaine Hunter said: "It's been a fantastic opportunity for our two schools to come together.

"It has been wonderful for the children to get to know each other and make new friends."

Joanna Black, a teacher at St Denis's, added: "The idea was always to improve the railway station environment for the whole community but the added benefit has been the new relationship between the two schools."

The children designed and made the planters with the help of social enterprise charity Glasgow Wood Recycling, who won the Green Glasgow Business category at Streets Ahead last year.

The company helps businesses recycle wood destined for landfill and provides opportunities for socially disadvantaged people to learn new skills.

"We're very grateful for the support from Glasgow Wood Recycling and from Dell, our business partners, who helped us plant flowers," added Elaine.

"ScotRail have also provided us with free rail passes to take the children to Balloch for an end-of-project trip and we're grateful to the Evening Times for the £250 Streets Ahead donation which allowed us to buy art materials for the exhibition."

The artworks will feature drawings of trains and Commonwealth Games posters.

Once the mini-gallery is complete, the two schools are hoping to develop plans for the platforms, with more planters, bird-boxes and even a wildflower garden on a grassy bank.

"The children are very enthusiastic about keeping things going and they will be down to maintain the planters and look after the plants over the year," explains Elaine.

"This was a great project for them but it has also had a fantastic impact on the wider community.

"Duke Street is bound to be a well-used station during the Commonwealth Games, so we're keen to make it look as good as possible."

Joanna added; "We're also planning other joint initiatives as part of the Streets Ahead campaign, including community clean-ups and litter-picks. Streets Ahead is a fantastic initiative because it encourages people to have pride in their communities."

John Yellowlees, ScotRail's external relations manager, said: "ScotRail is delighted that Golfhill and St Denis' are brightening up Duke Street Station.

"Their planters and posters are making it a more welcoming place, complementing our recent investment in improved waiting facilities in the run-up to the Commonwealth Games."

l To nominate yourself or someone else, visit the dedicated awards website at www.eveningtimesevents.com/streetsahead

You can also email lyndsay. wilson@heraldandtimes.co.uk or call 0141 302 7407.