Clermiston Litterati / Spring Clean Scotland Litter League
Keep Scotland Beautiful's #SpringCleanScotland Litter League turns the annual cleanup month into a regional competition: groups log litter picks, and winners are announced by Scottish region (Edinburgh & Lothians, Highlands, etc.). Clermiston Litterati - a residents' group - won their region in 2024.
Explicit regional categories (Edinburgh & Lothians, Glasgow & Strathclyde, etc.) - resident litter-pick groups compete for the regional title, with a national winner across regions.
Local groups (like 'Clermiston Litterati' - one Edinburgh neighbourhood's volunteer crew) form persistent intra-neighbourhood teams that organise repeated cleanups, recruit neighbours, and share the pride of winning the regional title for their area.
A named, persistent neighbourhood-level group (Clermiston Litterati) winning a regional league is a textbook BelongHub case study: hyperlocal identity + inter-region competition + intra-neighbourhood teamwork. The brief flags Litterati as 'basic' but the *league-of-neighbourhood-groups* layer is the under-mentioned variant.
Others in the same family
Britain in Bloom (RHS)
RHS-run national tiered competition: 1,600+ UK communities (villages, towns, suburbs, neighbourhoods) compete at local, regional then national level on three pillars: Horticultural Excellence, Environmental Responsibility, Community Participation. Volunteers are colloquially 'bloomers'.
Britain in Bloom / It's Your Neighbourhood (RHS)
Royal Horticultural Society-run nationwide horticulture/community competition with 1,600+ entered communities annually. Groups are judged on three pillars: Horticultural Excellence, Environmental Responsibility, Community Participation. Regional rounds (Heart of England in Bloom, South & South East in Bloom, London in Bloom etc.) feed UK finals. Backed by Saga/RHS academic-grade community-impact studies.
Plogtober (Mid-America Regional Council)
MARC-coordinated annual October plogging contest where counties and cities across the Kansas City metro compete for most participants and most litter picked. Virtual ploggers can sign up to clean their own neighbourhood any day in October; cities like Overland Park run their own sub-campaigns.
Modeshift STARS National School Travel League
National accreditation scheme that publishes league tables ranking local authorities by percentage of schools holding a Modeshift STARS travel plan (Bronze through Platinum). Bucks and South Gloucestershire repeatedly top the large-authority table.
Ma Petite Planète
3-week seasonal 'leagues' where players form teams of 6+ (schools, workplaces, neighbourhoods, families) and earn/lose points completing 50 bonus eco-challenges (e.g, zero-waste meal, organising a clean-up) and avoiding 20 penalty actions. Over 5,700 participants and 75,650 challenges completed across editions.
Wijkhelden ('Neighbourhood Heroes')
App for residents who clean their own neighbourhood ('Wijkhelden' = neighbourhood heroes). Users log cleanup routes, see other heroes' routes in their wijk, and coordinate cleanup coverage. Backed by Dutch waste authority DAR.