Our secondary and higher education team runs free, inspirational news and media workshops. During the 2023-24 academic year they continued to empower young people across the UK to access, understand, participate in and critically analyse media by extending their programme of workshops delivered at our Education Centre, virtually as well as in schools through our Media Literacy Ambassador project.
With this innovative approach, the team has significantly strengthened the reach and effectiveness of our news and media literacy programme.
In addition to workshops at the Education Centre in London, our virtual sessions and Media Literacy Ambassador outreach project have helped in removing geographical constraints and has enabled us to extend our reach and impact with young people from diverse and underrepresented communities across the UK. We're ambitious to widen our reach further in 2024/25.
Our Media literacy ambassador programme has been training young people in years 9-13 in the Midlands, Greater Manchester and South and West Yorkshire to teach their peers about fake news, enhancing media literacy skills across year groups and subjects.