Find out how you can get up to £5000 for a project, activity or residential through the Hackney Youth Opportunity Fund. For anyone aged 8 - 19 (up to 25 if you have support needs).
Zion, a member of the Hackney Children in Care Council, OVOC, Chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group on Looked-after Children. Read more here
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Do newspapers stop to think about the consequences of their campaigns and stories? When we ran a survey on this site a few months back, a majority of young people said they felt the press hyped up inner-city violence to sell more copies - and it's true that Hackney is sometimes portrayed in a negative light by journalists, some of whom have never been here.
But what about other issues that play out in young people's lives? As part of their series of films examining prejudice, The Homerton Youth Forum looked at the impact headlines can have on real people...
Click here to see the first film in the series.
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