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.