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Raise Your Voice and Campaign for Change

Are you 16-25? Do you and your friends want to affect change in your local community? You can volunteer your time with Headliners to report on an issue that matters to you and use your story to challenge the decision makers in your area.

For more information contact Sharon Boyd at:

Headliners (UK), Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Tel: 020 7749 9360 Mob: 07948 448 199

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Campaigns of young volunteers

Free KicksYoung people are always being told to do something positive with their lives. However, finding funding for those things can be a problem. Headliners reporters from Arsenal Positive Futures investigate just how difficult it is for young people to find and apply for funding.

How can we stop the madness?With so much focus on gun and knife crime and the media’s focus on adult perspectives of it, Headliners reporters decided to go straight to the people more likely to have the answers. We spoke to two young people referred to Hackney Youth Offending Team to find out why gun and knife crime has increased in the last few years.

Too Much Too YoungOrrel Lawrence, investigates the problems faced by young people looking for a job and their struggles when they enter the workplace

Young people with eating disorders speak outWith constant media attention on issues such as obesity and healthy eating, Headliners reporters Dowa Ojarikre, 18, and Bisi Fashesin, 18, spoke to a group of courageous young people in an online chat room for teenagers with eating disorders to find out how problems with food can affect the lives of young people.

From One War Zone to AnotherA young Londoner originally from Congo escaped the troubles in his own country to find himself in Hackney where he now feels just as vulnerable – but not from the militia, from other young people.

'Yobs' Take Over the House of LordsAn historic moment has been made as 300 young people from across the UK took over parliament and debated issues affecting them in the UK today, including the negative portrayal of young people in the media and the environment. Charlotte Lytton, 16, and Rhona Ezuma, 18, report back from the House of Lords where the country’s ‘yobs’ made their mark.

Understanding the People of Tomorrow, TodayAs the Chidlren's Society publish the UK's first independent national inquiry into childhood - The Childhood Inquiry, young reporters at Headliners report on the changing attitudes of adults towards young people.

Campaign for change in the mediaDoes the media paint too negative a picture of young people? David Collier and Terry White think so, and are using their roles in the UK Youth Parliament to campaign for more positive images in the news.

"Taking someone's life is no joke"On May 24th 2008 Rob Knox was fatally stabbed on a night out with friends in Sidcup. He was 18 years old. Here his friend and Headliners journalist Louis Ebdon, 17, explains his feelings about the tragedy and urges young people to think twice about carrying knives.

London

Richard Cloudesley School: Young people from a school for phyiscally disabled children are involved in producing a magazine explaining what happens in their community.

View the magazine (PDF)

Also in London

Chestnut Community Group
Loud'n'Clear - the magazine by young people in Islington
What's Up- the magazine by young people in Hackney

South-East

In the heart of Thamesmead, Bexley, is a project dedicated to focusing young people’s energy in a positive way. Headliners’ reporters Jake Bullions, 16, Conner Harris, 16, Jodie Franklin, 19 and Lauren Barker, 19 investigated this biker’s paradise.

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North-East

Members of our Newcastle project made a video for other young Deaf people which explains the Headliners story mountain.

Watch the video

Young people in the west of Newcastle upon Tyne produced The Bouncing Higher Magazine in which they review Newcastle City Council's range of activities during summer 2008.

View the magazine (PDF)

During Summer 2008, the young people from the North Benwell Youth Project produced Benwell Chit Chat Magazine which includes features on bullying, graffiti and lots more.

Benwell Chit Chat Magazine View the magazine (PDF)

West Midlands

Niamh from Coventry Youth Council Young people from Coventry talk about how they choose who gets funded via the Youth Opportunity and Youth Challenge Funds.