YOUTHFORIA

September 2024 - January 2025

The voice of teens in the North East.

Young Voices Amplified Through Podcasting

We partnered with Screenboo Productions and worked closely with young people from John Spence Community High School to empower the next generation of podcasters.

Throughout the project, participants gained hands-on experience and honed the skills needed to make their voices heard across digital platforms. Our young podcasters:

Created their own branding
Wrote, recorded, and interviewed to produce fresh, original content
Spoke out about the issues that mattered most to them

From concept to upload, they shaped every aspect of their podcasting journey—bringing bold ideas to life and turning up the volume on what matters.

Episode 1 - Embracing our differences

Welcome to the pilot episode of Youthforia – The voice of teens in the North East Youthforia is a brand new podcast featuring teenagers discussing topics that are important to them and that impact their lives at this age in this episode we get to know the 5 cast members in todays show as tell us things about themselves and discuss their own differences and discrimination and bullying that they have experienced for these differences.

Episode 2 - Spooky Stories, Ghosts and Spirits

Welcome to episode 2 of Youthforia – The voice of teens in the North East Youthforia is a brand new podcast featuring teenagers discussing topics that are important to them and that impact their lives at this age in this episode we get to know 3 more cast members and to celebrate Haloween they decided to tell each other their ghost stories and discuss the supernatural….

Episode 3 - Teens and their music

In this episode we get to know what music the gang like and listen to and how and when they consume music, we also find out what musicians dead or alive they would invite round for dinner .

EPISODE 4 - School life Year 10

In this episode Joseph a year 11 student chats to some of the year 10 podcast members about school life, options and after school activities.

EPISODE 5 - North Shields for Teens

In this episode the cast talk all things North Shields. They discus their favourite hang outs, things they’d like to see more of and general observations about their home town and what it has to offer teenagers of today!

Episode 6 - Year 11 and the workload

In this episode the cast talk about their friendship, primary school memories and their workload in Year 11.

Episode 7 - Christmas Special

In our Christmas Special episode, the cast talk about their favourite and funniest Christmas memories, favourite songs and traditions, they also pull some crackers, tell some jokes, ask some Christmas trivia and have a jolly good time – we hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed recording it.

Episode 8 - Social Media For Teens

In this episode the cast talk about Social Media for teens, discussing when they first got phones and when they were allowed to use the various social media platforms. They also go through the pros and cons of being on social media and tell each what age they would allow their own kids to have social media.