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Latest: Prince's Trust music programme in Camden
Last month, Camden hosted The Prince’s Trust one-week Get Started with Music programme, with the aim of engaging disadvantaged people aged 16 and 25-years through music.
Eleven unemployed young adults, including one Camden local, showcased original music produced on a Prince’s Trust course to help them get job.
The programme was run in connection with Camden-based WAC Performing Arts and Media College, and can develop creative skills and teamwork whilst raising aspirations and awareness of opportunities in work, education or further training.
One Camden resident, Nicholas Burela (pictured), 21, had recently been released from Pentonville Prison and was unsuccessfully looking for work when his Probation Officer recommended the course.
Burela, who raps and beat-boxes on one of the tracks says: “The course has been such an inspiration. It’s really motivated me to want to carry on with music. I’m already applying for music courses and plan to go to university at one point.
“It’s helped me in other ways as well. I’m definitely more confident now and don’t feel like I need to know someone to be myself. I used to be really quiet in groups but now I feel I can say what I think. This will really help when I go to interviews,” Burela added.
According to The Prince's Trust, all course participants will have struggled at school, are in or leaving care, are long-term unemployed or have been in trouble with the law.
Lloyd Mitchell, programme executive, said: "The change that we see in the participants during the programme is immense. From being short of confidence and self esteem, the participants develop personally through music making and team-building exercises.”
Snow Patrol, Stereophonics and Journey South are among other musicians who were supported by The Prince’s Trust.
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