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. The Podcasts are published on our Spotify Listen here: […]
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 […]
YOUNG LONDONERS SHARE VIEWS ON THEIR COMMUNITY
As part of the London Green Champions project, a group of young people share what they think about London’s Environment. Our latest London Green Champions project is comprised of a group of young refugee and asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Honduras, Eritrea, Iran and Sri Lanka and Sudan. As part of the project, the group have been exploring […]
2023 SUMMER RESIDENTIAL: PART 3
Following on from our photo video we are excited to share some interviews that our young people completed with each other during our summer trip to Ingleborough Hall in the Yorkshire Dales. During the film, you will hear directly from the young people about what they got up to during the trip and how much they enjoyed it. You’ll […]
2023 SUMMER RESIDENTIAL: PART 2
We are excited to share some photos from our 2023 summer residential trip to the Yorkshire Dales with young people from London and North-East England. The trip was a huge success and we are grateful to our partners, Gateshead College and ELATT College for their collaboration. The photos show the young people enjoying a variety of activities, including our Photography Challenge […]
IDENTIFYING TRUTH IN NEWS: TRUSTEE-LED WORKSHOP
As part of our Safe Spaces London project, we had Headliners (UK) Trustee and New York Times Journalist, Eshe Nelson, lead a workshop on Identifying Truth in News. During this session, the young people outlined the different places they obtain news, discussing why they use these platforms and whether these platforms can be trusted. This led into […]