By Alex, Age 17 Nestled in the heart of Newcastle upon Tyne, the Ouseburn Valley is rapidly becoming the city’s coolest hotspot. While often overshadowed by the bustling city centre and the iconic Quayside, Ouseburn is now gaining a reputation as the place to be for young people and artists alike. As a young resident, […]
The Newcastle/Sunderland Divide: An Old Persons Problem From a Young Persons Perspective
The Newcastle Sunderland rivalry is famous. There are numerous ideas of where it comes from, whether it be conflicts over coal mining and the shipping industry, or the historic football derbies. Two young Journalists from Headliners, Ava and Laila, discussed their different experiences of living in each city. Ava used to live in Sunderland but […]
MJ’s Story – Aiming High
MJ took part in Aiming High in early 2024 and has gained new confidence and met new friends along the way. Our Aiming High project aim’s to empower young people to share their stories, stay safe online and to become more financially and digitally aware. ‘I signed up to do Aiming High because I felt […]
Summer 2024 Activities for 11-16 year-olds
We have a variety of free activities for summer 2024, Open to all young people who would like to take part. Lunch and Refreshments are provided free each day. Places are limited so please sign up soon to avoid disappointment. Wednesday 24th July – Photography 10.30 – 3pm Wednesday 31st July – Film Making 10.30 […]
‘Owt or Nowt’ Podcast Series
This project works with young people in South Tyneside to create podcasts around issues and topics that are important to them. The project is youth led, Young people decide the content they want to create and are supported by our team to develop and record it. This project is kindly funded by The Community Foundation.
Aiming High
Our Aiming High Project works with young people aged between 16 – 25-year-olds who are young migrants, asylum seekers or refugees that live in Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, North Tyneside and South Tyneside. During our project we support young people to build gain their confidence with financial literacy, improved English-speaking levels and learn some media journalism […]
Bright Sparks
Bright Sparks is a project which supports young people who are living independently for the first time or transitioning out of care into independent living to become more energy efficient through giving them tips, guidance and equipping them with energy saving items. It supports young people in reducing energy bills and ensures that they are […]
Tyne on Your Side
Our Tyne on Your Side Project works with young people who have SEND or are Care-Experienced or Care Leavers to support and build their confidence through Media and Journalism to support them into meaningful employment, volunteering or return to education. This project mixes employability skills, 1-2-1 mentoring and creative media to give young people a […]
Young Journalist Programme
Our Young Journalist Programme is an open access youth session that allows young people to come along and take part in media and journalism. As with all of Headliners work this is a free youth session and Headliners can support with accessibility such as support with travel fairs for young people to attend. Young people […]
Headliners Receives Funding for Open-Access Youth Journalism
Here at Headliners we are delighted to announce that we have been successful in securing funding to run our Young Journalism Programme in our Newcastle base. We will be opening our doors from the 2nd April to allow young people aged 11 to 19 to build new skills and create media content about the things they […]