This February, Love Where You Live is having a special Love Month to give people the opportunity to show their love for the places where they live.

As a council, you already work with neighbourhoods and communities to improve their local areas. What you're doing is fundamenental to the success of Love Where You Live in bringing together groups, individuals and organisations to make things happen at a local level.

Love Where You Live can help you build even closer relationships with people on the ground by inspiring communities to take ownership of issues and make decisions by encouraging personal responsibility and positive action.

Together we can help you to build a shared responsibility in communities, raise awareness and make it easier for people to keep their area clean.

If you're already organising community events this month then why not make them part of Love Month? We have special branded promotional posters that you can download here.

Don't forget to advertise your events so other people in your area find out about them. You'll need to sign up to Love Where You Live to do this but it doesn't take long and you can come back to the site again and again to promote future events.

And, don't forget to tell us about what you're doing by emailing us at lovewhereyoulive@keepbritaintidy.org We would love to hear your stories.

Find out about what other local authorities are doing to encourage residents and businesses to show they love where they live on our Love Stories pages. Here's a great example from Durham  where the council and a local school joined forces to show their local area some love.