Orange RockCorps concert ticket scheme comes to Lambeth (From Your Local Guardian)

Orange RockCorps concert ticket scheme comes to Lambeth

1:00pm Monday 7th September 2009 in

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Young volunteers have been helping transform Lambeth’s green spaces in exchange for free concert tickets.

The youngsters were part of the Orange RockCorps programme, which invites them to complete four hours volunteers work in exchange for a free pass to a concert for which you cannot buy a ticket.

This year’s London concert takes place on September 25 at the 25 September 2009 at the Royal Albert Hall.

The gardening activities in Lambeth in August and running through this month have been co-ordinated by Progress Community Garden Projects,run by Streatham resident, Simon Ghartey.

The Lambeth volunteer sites include the Blenheim Gardens Estate and Glenbrook primary school.

Chuka Umunna, Labour’s Parliamentary candidate for Streatham visited one of the sites. He said: “The volunteers are given cool T shirts to wear while they work and, on my visit, were being spun some of the best, upfront hip hop and R’n B tunes by a DJ with a first rate sound system to power them through the afternoon.

“The results are there for all to see, for example, at Blenheim Gardens where 94 volunteers turned out to tender to the estate's gardens which were in need of some attention.”