Young volunteers are being sought to help clean up a Barnet estate as part of an annual initiative aimed at improving the community and its surroundings.

Organised by Barnet Homes, Burnt Oak Christian Fellowship and the Burnt Oak Safer Neighbourhood Team, Noise Event 2008 is open to youngsters between the age of 16 and 25.

Volunteers will gather together over the bank holiday weekend, from May 3 to May 5, on the North Road Estate to remove graffiti, pick up litter, tidy overgrown communal areas, and plant shrubs and trees.

There will be a free £10 HMV or mobile top-up voucher for the first 20 volunteers who sign up.

Noise Event coordinator Amanda Ottaviani hoped the event would be as successful as last year.

She said: "The point of the Noise Event is to get the community involved in helping themselves. We specifically want to try and persuade the youth around the estate to help those around them that aren't so fortunate.

"The Noise Event 2007 was a big success, with a turn out of around 35 volunteers over the whole weekend.

"We were very happy to see so many turn out for a mass day of change. It was amazing and left an imprint on the people who live here as they were encouraged to witness people from outside and inside the area come in and make an effort to change their community.

"All in all the estate was looking in a much better state by the time we left it."

There will also be a special Fun Day complete with facepainting, jumble sale, bouncy castle, cake stall, book stall, toy stall and free BBQ from 12pm to 5pm on Monday, May 5, which anyone can attend.

Anyone interested in volunteering for should email Amanda Ottaviani on am.ottaviani@ntlworld.com