STREETS Ahead projects are blossoming all over the city, as our community campaign continues to inspire the hearts and minds of Glasgow’s growers, gardeners and go-getters.

The Evening Times, with its partners Glasgow City Council, Scottish Fire and Rescue, City Building and City Charitable Trust, is helping to bring neighbours together in a bid to improve our great city for all.

The sixth year of our sensational initiative is underway so we would love to hear all about what your community is doing to build a better, brighter and bolder Glasgow.

In our second four-page pullout, we catch up with one of our amazing awardwinners from last year, the excellent Eco Drama and introduce you to our Streets Ahead grants recipient of the year – Bottle of Ginger.

But first, it’s time to reveal what the inspirational pupils at Cleeves Primary in Priesthill are up to this autumn.

Schools have been at the heart of our Streets Ahead campaign since its launch in 2011 and we are regularly astounded by their imagination, determination and enthusiasm in taking our initiative to their hearts.

Cleeves Primary is no different. Last year, pupils, teachers and staff formed a SNAG (School Nutrition Action Group) in a bid to encourage children and their families to eat healthily.

“We are really lucky at Cleeves to have a community garden – 3 Hills Garden – in the middle of our school grounds,” smiles principal teacher Helen Knox.

“Thanks to their gardener, Jane Burdass, our amazing parents, Cordia staff and of course, the fantastic pupils, we have learned a lot about what it means to grow your own food.”

The 3 Hills Garden won the Best Community Prize at last year’s Streets Ahead Awards. Named after the surrounding areas of Nitshill, Priesthill and Househillmuir it was praised by the judges for bringing the local community together.

Originally funded by the NHS and Glasgow City Council as a project designed to get people growing and eating healthy food, 3 Hills is now self-supporting.

It includes 20 raised beds, an orchard and several communal gardening areas, and as well as transforming the playground and teaching families about healthy food, it has become a friendly meeting place for the community.

So far, the pupils at Cleeves have harvested vegetables and made their own soup, linked up with local supermarkets for healthy eating talks, encouraged parents to attend gardening courses and rustled up delicious fruit smoothies and kebabs.

This autumn, however, it’s all about the apples.

“The children will be picking apples from the trees in the garden and making their own apple juice,” explains Helen. “While it’s a lot of fun, there is also a serious message below it all, because the children are learning really important things about nature, growing food and how to eat healthily.

“We were delighted when The Three Hills Garden won a Streets Ahead award last year, as it shows what an impact they have had on the community and how much the good work they do means to everyone.”

Is your school Streets Ahead? Tell us what you do to be at the heart of your community by emailing streetsahead@heraldandtimes.co.uk