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Camden News - by DAN CARRIER
Published: 11 December 2008

Juice bar decision ‘shows up council’

YOUNG people were celebrating this week with the news that a popular gym and juice bar in Highgate Newtown has been saved from closure.
In May the Town Hall told the Fresh Juice Bar in Chester Road that it was cutting its £40,000 funding – forcing the popular facility to close.
Young people and the trainers, along with Highgate Newtown Community Centre manager Nick Roxan, looked for alternative funding – and discovered this week that a bid to a young people’s fund managed by the London Development Agency had awarded them £164,000 – enough to keep the scheme going for two years.
The club, based in a parade of shops, had offered healthy eating advice through its café, a gym with personal trainers and a place to hang out for hundreds of young people. But because of council funding cuts, the scheme was closed in the summer.
Highgate ward Green Party Councillor Maya De Souza said the decision showed up the ruling Lib-Dem and Tory alliance at the Town Hall, who had put the swingeing cuts in place.
She said: “The decision by the London Development Authority shows up Camden’s failure to recognise a good project and ensure the Highgate Newtown area, which is one of the most deprived in the borough has adequate youth provision.”

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