A new post today over at our sister blog, LinksUK, reports on the impact of the recession on child poverty. Depressing reading, but illustrated with a really insightful film made in east London by young people on Community Links young reporters programme, working in collaboration with Save The Children.  The London film formed one part of a national campaigning video Wee Shots and the young people ably demonstrate what needs to change.

Over the summer the Chain Reaction team worked with Community Links youth workers to set up a project enabling  young people to tell their own stories and to report on events and activities that affect them. In the video below the young reporters talk about the making of the film (with professionals from Urban Croft ) and what they learned in the process.  Several of these film makers in the video below will be at Chain Reaction 2009 as part of our social reporting team. 

Just as we did at Chain Reaction 2008, this year we we plan to involve yong people in making a film of the event - to be shown at the end of the day- its an ambitious task but we are connecting with the vnspired Big V Bus who are going to work with our young reporters ont the day to shoot, edit and present their film.

Tools to make and share stories online are increasingly easy to access and simple to use in support of a project or campaign. Throughout the day at Chain Reaction we will be running Social Media Surgeries to demonstrate how online tools can be used to promote your work. Come along and join us  – and look out for our young reporters… they just might want to interview you!