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Women Together Generations Apart
Women Together Generations Apart
Headliners members met with Republican ex-prisoners from Tar Anall to find out what it was like in Belfast, when they were young.
 
Deirbhile Schmidt
Sharing Time And Space
A short slideshow and podcast documenting the photographic work and interviews of the Headliners Peace III partnership with the Muslim, Jewish, Catholic and Protestant communities of Belfast.
 
Rhianna McConnell
Romeo And Juliet
Interfaith relationships in Northern Ireland still stir contempt in some areas. Young people create their own drama to explore these prejudices in a Peace III project.
 
Reporter Zina Abdulla
For Better, For worse? Young People's Opinions on Marriage
Reporters from Benfield School have their say on marriage and interview Graeme Armstrong from Relate to find out the secret of a good relationship
 
Furaha Muzamil
Creative Zone: Furaha Muzamil
Furaha Muzamil is a young artist based in Newcastle. Here she talks to Headliners about art, Africa and education.
 
Adam Baker
Bexley Mencap: Finding a job with a learning disability
Youth umemployment has risen to a 17-year high at 1 million out of work between the ages of 16-25. But what about those with learning disabilities? How are they looking for work and what support is out there for them? A group of young people from Bexley Mencap made a training dvd that help give other people with learning difficulties advice and tips for finding a job.
 
Milen Rosum; Bana Tesfamichael
Eritrean Youth Club explore what a safe neighbourhood is
What makes your neighbourhood safe? Young people from the Eritrean Youth Club in Islington, came together to suggest how they could make the area that they live in a more safer environment.
 
Reporters Charlie and Louis
Youth Culture: Identity, Prejudice and Belonging
A group of students from Bexleyheath Academy made a film about their identity as young people. They explored people's attitudes towards them and discovered that as long as they have a strong identity in themselves, that's all that matters!
 
Walls and Bridges
Walls and Bridges
Headliners Foyle young people explore peace, unity, division and conflict through photography.
 
Naomi Drury
RJ's Leaving Day
Children's Law Centre (CLC) tread the boards at the Grand Opera House, Belfast to highlight inequality and promote the inclusion of young people's views at Stormont.
 
Naomi Drury
Ghost Busting Belfast
Young people hooked on Halloween
 
Headliners Belfast
Pride and Prejudice
'Coming out' to friends and family at times isn't easy. GLYNI members preparing for Belfast Pride Festival talk to Headliners about their experiences.
 
NCS
Proud To Be A South Londoner?
Headliners in collaboration with Charlton Athletic Football Club and the National Citizen Service (NCS), investigate whether there are any people proud to be called a South Londoner. Watch their video and listen to their podcast.
 
Second Thoughts
Second Thoughts
Leaving Primary school can be daunting, bigger bags, more homework, new friends. Pupils talk openly about what lies ahead.
 
Make informed chocies
Towering Views
A magazine that gives young people at risk of becoming parents the means to make informed choices by supporting them to investigate the issues and discover for themselves factual information surrounding sexual health.

Commissioned by Tower Hamlets by NHS East London and the City
 
London riots: Fighting for justice or just stealing?
London riots: Fighting for justice or just stealing?
Following three nights of chaos across the capital, Headliners journalist and Hackney resident Nyasha McLean considers the causes and consequences of the London riots.
 
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Why do young people turn to alcohol? - BLOG
Reporter Shoheda Shamima Miah blog - looking at the issues around why young people turn to alcohol.
 
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Dealing with Peer Pressure...- BLOG
Reporter Hamida Begum looks at peer pressure on teens in her new blog.
 
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Media Influences Young Girls - BLOG
Reporter Akila Chowdhury blog looks at how the media influences young teens, both boys and girls and what the consequences are of it?
 
Making of Pineapplehead
The Making of Pineapplehead
Young filmmakers share their experiences and lessons learnt on location.
 
Naomi Drury
On the road
Five filmmakers travel across Northern Ireland to hear about the pressures and pleasures of being a teenager.
 
Pause Summer 2011
Pause Summer 2011
In the latest issue of Pause, our journalists speak to Ghetts about Grime and the government, investigate the reality of youth crime, and get the lowdown on why the media should be careful when reporting about eating disorders.
 
LNC 13
Loud 'N' Clear Issue 13
Loud ‘N’ Clear Issue 13 is a magazine produced by Headliners reporters from Islington.
 
Rhianna McConnell
No Place Like Home For Teens
Headliners film reveals the realities of sleeping rough in Northern Ireland.
 
Young Carers
Young and Caring
Young people all over the country take for granted sitting in front of the TV, staying out late, hanging around with their friends and generally being a kid. But out there, there are thousands that have been catapulted into maturity and responsibility by caring for someone. Young carers from Family Action investigate what brings tears and smiles to their lives and where is the support?
 
Young Carers
Catapulted into Maturity
There are over 175,000 young carers in the UK. They have been catapulted into maturity and responsibility by caring for someone with a physical or learning disability, illness or substance dependency at home. And there may be many more that we don't yet know about.

Just who are young carers? What brings tears and smiles to their lives and where is the support? This film, made by young carers, tries to answer those questions.

This film was made by the young people that access Family Actio
 
Pineapplehead
Pineapplehead
Winner of Best Film made by Under 15's at the Coca-Cola Cinemagic International Film & Television Festival For Young People, Pineapplehead explores bullying in the classroom.
 
Rose Bowl Opening
Rose Bowl Opening
Islington youth club gets a face lift and a grand reopening. The Rose Bowl is back!
 
Access all areas in our dreams
Access all areas in our dreams
Headliners Foyle reporter Saorla Boyle, 17, spoke to young people with Hydrochephalus about how bad access for wheelchair users is in the Northwest.
 
So stare we dont care
So stare we dont care
Headliners speak to members of the Association of Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus about how they overcome the everyday prejudices they face.
 
Make friends not war
Make friends not war
Disabled young people do some straight-talking about sectarianism
 
Beatrice Yeung
Waste and Recycling
Reporter, Beatrice Yeung thinks globally on how the environment's future is in our hands.
 
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Anti-Social Behaviour
The young people from the Sunderland Youth Offending Service give a brief and colourful insight into what anti-social behaviour is and how society can help to tackle it.
 
Cut it Out - The Occupation of Newcastle University
Cut it Out - The Occupation of Newcastle University
Headliners members in the North East continue their coverage of the student protests against the Coalition Government's cuts to education. In this, their second feature in the 'Cut it Out' series, our young reporters hang out with the Occupants of Newcastle University, before reaching their own conclusions about the current political climate.
 
Singing Hinnies - A Taakin Heeds Geordie Heritage Project
Singing Hinnies - A Taakin Heeds Geordie Heritage Project
Headliners members in the North East create their own Geordie song with help from The Futureheads' Barry Hyde and Field Music's Peter Brewis, as part of the Heritage Lottery Funded Taakin Heeds Project. They attended the British Library's Evolving English Launch in Newcastle City Library, where they spoke to local residents, artisits and musicians about Geordie culture; including Simon Donald, Johnny Handle and Billy Mitchell. Haway and check out this canny celebration of the North East dialect!
 
Living with sectarianism
Living with sectarianism
Protestant young people speak openly about the reality of sectarian attack.
 
Sectarian attack - Conals story
Sectarian attack - Conals story
Conal tells us about how having the wrong name in the wrong place prompted an attack.
 
Young people living on the interface in Derry speak out
Young people living on the interface in Derry speak out
Young people from the Whistle Project share their views on sectarianism.
 
Sectarianism under scutiny
Sectarianism under scutiny
Shannon (16) takes to the streets of Derry/Londonderry to chart reaction to shocking sectarianism stats.
 
Japanese shocked at racism levels
Japanese shocked at racism levels
Racism levels in Derry leave Japanese young people dissappointed
 
Friendship eradicates racism
Friendship eradicates racism
Foreigners living in the Northwest of Northern Ireland discuss racism
 
Isolation becomes integration
Isolation becomes integration
Young people who have experienced isolation in Donegal speak out to break out
 
Springhill speaks out
Springhill speaks out
Catholic young people from a single identity youth club in Strabane share their thoughts on Protestants.
 
New home new life
New home new life
Two young people from Poland and Romania share their stories of moving to a new country
 
Sectarianism never far away
Sectarianism never far away
Protestant young people speak openly about life under the constant threat of sectarianism
 
Fear around the corner
Fear around the corner
Protestant young people speak of fear and sectarian threats as part of everyday life.
 
Building Bridges Forum for change
Building Bridges Forum for change
When incidents of rioting became unbearable, young people from interface areas in Belfast created a group which would tackle community safety issues head on.
 
The Long Way Round
The Long Way Round
Young people talk about how fear of Protestants means going the long way round in their own community
 
Sectarianism - Thats Life
Sectarianism - Thats Life
Young people from Protestant area speak up about sectarianism
 
Attack Avoidance
Attack Avoidance
Derry teenager tells how he daily has to avoid being attacked
 
Racism On The Rise
Racism On The Rise
Several foreign visitors talk about their experience with racism
 
Japanese ‘disappointed’ at racism stats
Japanese ‘disappointed’ at racism stats
Japanese visitors are shocked of the 'lovely friendly' Northwest.
 
Far Away From Being At Home
Far Away From Being At Home
Is Buncrana a racist place?
 
Difference Is Good
Difference Is Good
Racism explored in Japan and Derry
 
Olympic Site Sign
London 2012 - is it connecting with young people?
With less than 500 days to go until the 2012 Olympics, Headliners travels to the Olympic site to investigate how connected young people feel to the biggest sporting event on the planet.
 
Ca-Ching!
Black Market Playgrounds
Has the healthy schools programme created a monster in the playground? Black market trading in sweets, chocolates and fizzy drinks are making enterprising pupils some extra pocket money. Headliners reporters investigate.
 
6 Billion Ways 2011
6 Billion Ways 2011
On March 5 Rich Mix hosted 6 Billion Ways, a conference aimed at sharing ideas and actions about how to make the world a better place. Headliners reporters went a long to talk to the organisers, the speakers and those attending the conference.
 
Volunteering for Nothing?
Volunteering for Nothing?
As part of the Big Society the government is appealing to people to get involved in volunteering. Part of this initiative is to encourage young people who are not in employment, education or training to take up volunteering opportunities as an approach to gain new skills, and work experience. A group of Headliners reporters investigate other young peoples’ responses in this podcast – Is Volunteering the Solution.