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Camden News - by SIMON WROE
Published: 12 February 2009

Haverstock pupils Shahana Begum, Tre Curran and Bareka Rahman at work at St Michael’s Church in Camden Town

Dig for a gig! Young volunteers go to work in bid to win Camden Crawl music tickets

TAKE a last look at Camden in all its grubby glory – a great clean-up is all set to transform the borough!
Young people aged between 16 and 21 are being called on to take up trowels and dust brushes and get to work on their neighbourhood in return for exclusive passes to the legendary Camden Crawl music festival in April.
The groundbreaking Castlehaven Project gives young people across the borough the chance to earn free tickets and even meet some of the stars performing at the event.
Thirty volunteers aged 18 to 21 can scoop tickets to a day at the legendary Crawl, while another 30 teenagers under 18 will be rewarded with passes for the All Ages Day on April 25.
Volunteer Tre Curran, a Haverstock School pupil, aged 17, said: “I haven’t been to Camden Crawl yet. I’m hoping The Ting Tings might be there this year.”
Previous Crawl headliners include Amy Winehouse, Wiley and The Klaxons.
But the line-up remains a closely guarded secret up to the date.
Bareka Rahman, 16, also at Haverstock, said: “I’m hoping Michael Jackson is going to be there! It would be cool to go to the Crawl – but it’s more important to me to preserve our green spaces. There’s not much of it about in London.”
In return for six hours of voluntary work cleaning up the area around the Castlehaven Community Centre or restoring the gardens of St Michael’s Church in Camden Road, youngsters can also win a day being mentored by companies including MTV, Koko and the New Journal.
The project, run in conjunction with the Castlehaven Community Association and youth charity Envision, aims to bring Camden’s young and old neighbours closer together and improve communal areas.
Haverstock pupil Shahana Begum, 17, said: “Teenagers are portrayed really badly in the media.
“It means we get weird looks when we get on the bus or in the street and that is because people think we are somehow different. Actually, we are quite similar.”
Interested young people aged 16-21 can apply to take part through Castlehaven Community Centre and online at www.thecnj.co.uk/castlehaven

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