PROJECT
Positive Youth News Haringey
FUNDING
The Selby Trust hosts the project for free. Sources of funding include small grants from organisations such as the Co-operative Community Fund and Wellman Trust, plus young participants' fundraising activities
BACKGROUND
In the aftermath of the 2011 riots in London and other areas, young people from Haringey were horrified at the way they were demonised in the media. With support from youth workers, a small group decided to fight back against negative perceptions and Positive Youth News Haringey was born.
ACTION
The project started as a short-term campaign to get local newspapers to cover more positive youth stories and use social media to promote these to the wider community, especially adults. But as project manager Seema Chandwani explains, the more young participants spoke to other young people, the more issues they uncovered including a sense of exclusion and stigma attached to growing up in Haringey. "They found evidence young people were being turned away for jobs and had faced discrimination from teachers and universities because they were from this area," she says.
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