Call for volunteers for the Love Prestwich Festival Big Clean

Date published: 04 June 2009

As part of Love Prestwich Festival a Big Clean has been organised for Saturday 13 June at Drinkwater Park, Rainsough Brow, in partnership with Orange RockCorps.

Orange RockCorps is a national campaign which encourages individuals to give four hours of their time to an Orange RockCorps community project in their area. In return, participants get a ticket to an exclusive gig at Manchester Apollo on 13 July featuring Lady Gaga and N-DUbz.

Love Prestwich Festival organisers are calling on local people to volunteer to be part of the Big Clean Team. Volunteers will be helping with painting, fencing & barriers works, tree thinning (dependant on nesting birds), shrub clearance (dependant on nesting birds), path works and litter picking.

The Bury branch of vinvolved, the national youth volunteering programme, which in run in partnership with Greater Manchester Youth Network and Bury Youth Service, will be helping to recruit young people for the event. If you are aged 16 - 25 and interested in volunteering at this event or any others contact Bury vinvolved on 0161 274 3299.

Carran O'Grady, Prestwich Local Area Partnership Manager, said: "Drinkwater Park is a local favourite beauty spot so by volunteering to improve it and earn a ticket to a concert with international stars is a winner".

Stephen Green, CEO of RockCorps, said " We are very excited to be coming to Manchester and Drinkwater Park, we’re looking forward to celebrating with the volunteers who have given back to their community at the gig on July 13th”

For more information log on to www.orangerockcorps.co.uk.