The story so far

1994

• Pilot project begins
• Registered as a charity

1995

• Launched London office
• Report on International Children's Conference on the Environment involved 85 countries.

1996

• Interview Tony Blair about his plans for education if Labour get into power
• Young reporters publish their experiences of having their friend stabbed by a rival gang.

1997

• Opened centre in Newcastle
• Investigate the use of excluding pupils from schools

1998

• Convened Kids These Days, a public seminar on media stereotyping of young people
• Young reporters interview Britain's youngest mother

1999

• Made presentations to the Cabinet Office's Social Exclusion Unit on estates and teenage pregnancy
• Visited Tanzania as part of a Co-operative Bank and Christian Aid funded project on third world debt

2000

• Open a new office in Belfast serving young people from all communities
• Conducted interviews with 90 young peopoe for a three-part Channel 4 programme 'Sex 8-18' broadcast in June 2000

2001

• Produced four films featuring in-depth interviews with the three main party leaders for the Sky News General Election coverage
• Involved children and young people in reviewing and evaluating children's services in the London borough of Islington

2002

• Produced supplements on young people's views for the Daily Mirror and The Independent
• Developed the Children's Express story archive as an educational resource for the citizenship curriculum

2003

• Opened Foyle centre in Derry/Londonderry
• Reported on Rights into Action, the first international congress of young disabled people held in Wales

2004

• Produced Global Eye exhibition and video examining the experiences of immigrants in Northern Ireland
• Set up and ran the Children and Youth Board which advised the Department for Education and Skills on policy including children's workforce development

2005

• Young people from all over the country held interviews with candidates to appoint the first Children's Commissioner in England
• Celebrated our 10th birthday

2006

• Travelled to Kenya to make a film on how young people led projects in Africa were reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS - shown on Sky News, BBC News 24 and ITN - and attended and reported on the World AIDS Conference in Canada
• Interviewed an unaccompanied asylum seeker who is to be returned to her native country where she knows no-one after three years in Britain

• Lyra McKee, a member from Belfast, won Sky's Young Journalist of the Year competition.

2007

• Relaunch as Headliners.
• Recruited three new staff to work in West London, and the South-East and North-East of England as part of a three-year project funded by the Big Lottery.
• Produced a series of videos to help promote the Youth Opportunity and Youth Challenge Funds.
• Worked with BBC Blast and BBC Northern Ireland to make 10 films shown on BBC1.

Since we launched in the UK in 16 years ago, Headliners has managed to do the following things:

• 2500 young people have had the opportunity to learn and develop their skills
• A further 15000 have had their views published or broadcast
• 1200 stories have been produced for publication and 30 magazines published
• More than 50 films, documentaries and TV packages have been made and more than 50 radio packages have been broadcast
• Over 500 young people supported by Headliners have been involved in advising local and national government across the UK on policy and have participated in decision making. They have interviewed over 300 politicians and people in power
• More than 30 young people have travelled to 10 countries outside the UK from Japan to Ghana and Canada to South Africa on stories affecting young people worldwide.