Young Reporter stories

Here you'll find a selection of stories produced by BBC Young Reporters from across the UK, including some of this year’s BBC Young Reporter Competition winners.

BBC Young Reporter Jemima from Clevedon talks about her love for ballet and feelings of exclusion over the lack of different skin tone uniform options available to her.

The need for diverse ballet clothing

BBC Young Reporter Nico shares his family's organ donation story and chats with experts.

Why is organ donation important?

BBC West Midlands Young Reporter for 2024, Tegan aged 14, has been researching the need among women and girls for self-defence classes.

'I want more self defence classes for women'

BBC Yorkshire's Young Reporter Grace talks of her love for the greyhound racing community.

Being part of the greyhound racing community

Ella shares the reality of living with a hidden disability and how she keeps up with the activities she loves.

'You may not see it but I have a lot to deal with'

Evan shares the challenges of playing football whilst dealing with a condition that affects his joints.

Footballer Evan on overcoming arthritis to play football

Theo and Ben take a look at the risks and potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in schools.

'Most of our friends use AI in schoolwork'

Elise, from Irchester, reports the on the future of brass bands and how it changed her life.

Why brass bands still matter

14-year-old David investigates why there's such a lack of ethnic diversity in teaching.

'Why don't more teachers look like me?'

Matthew reports on why sport is crucial for disabled people, and what it means to him.

Coaching a disability cricket team

Mia spends a day at Hampden for Scotland's Nations League game with Belgium.

Mia's day at Hampden

Sisters Aoife (aged 14 – a Year 10 student) and Caoimhe (aged 13 – a Year 9 student) share their experience of what it was like to change schools in lockdown.

Swapping schools in lockdown

Oscar, 17, reports on how he felt when he witnessed someone he loved being discriminated against.

Young Reporter: 'I witnessed transphobia towards my mum'

Matthew, 11, has called for more funding to help find a cure for a rare form of blood cancer.

Young Reporter: 'We need more funding for cancer research'

Ben, an academy footballer and BBC Young Reporter Competition winner, wants to highlight the importance of mental health in the game and shares his experience of being an apprentice footballer at a professional club.

'Highlighting mental health in football is vital': Life as an academy prospect

During lockdown Shireen realised that she was living in the same house as her best friend - her dad.

Covid lockdown a year on: 'My dad became my best friend'

Roisin reflects on how she's coping with losing the power in her right side, and initially having to deal with not being able to speak or eat.

Young Reporter: 'I had a stroke when I was 14'

Here’s some advice from three teenagers who are already experts in learning from home as they’ve been doing it for years.

Top tips for learning at home from those in the know!

Keziah wants more young people to see themselves represented in the books that they read.

The girl campaigning for more diversity in books

Callum discovered a group which helped him take control of his speech and inspired him to help others struggling in the same way all over the world.

'A teacher joked about my stutter, now I help others with theirs'

Catriona, a finalist in the BBC Young Reporter competition, shares her story about mental health provision in schools in Scotland.

Catriona shares her story about mental health

A teenager from the West Midlands is urging young girls to "find their voice" and speak out against upskirting.

Upskirting victim urges other girls to speak out

Zoe, 11, was one of the young people who took part in BBC Young Reporter. She has Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SEDC) which is a form of dwarfism. She wanted to tell people about her life and how having her condition has made her stronger.

'I've got stronger and more confident'

When Stephanie noticed nobody in her friendship group was white, she began to question if Britain was really multicultural.

Multiculturism: 'I'm British but have no white friends'

School friends and keen gamers Imogen and Isla are looking at whether the characters in games represent the people who play them.

Do computer games reflect the people who play them?

Ryan is a 16-year-old referee from Somerset. When refereeing games, he regularly faces verbal abuse from players, coaches and managers.

Teen referees report abuse and threats from parents

Jake, Elliott and Jed have been trying to get a skate park built near their homes in Swansea.

Boys try to get skate park plan approved in Swansea

A 17-year-old boy from Manchester has been speaking about how the suicide of his grandfather left him devastated.

BBC Young Reporter: 'I don't want to take my own life like my grandad

A 15-year-old girl who completely lost her hearing while at school has spoken of how getting cochlear implants and a support worker changed her life.

BBC Young Reporter: 'My hearing loss made school hell'

Royal Navy serviceman's daughter Alex describes the heartache of losing her dad for years of her life.

'My dad was away for six years of my life'

Ruben is a successful make-up influencer on TikTok, the 15-year-old’s videos have been liked more than a million times and yet he sometimes feels like "an outsider" in the make-up world.

TikTok make-up influencer: ‘I feel like an outsider’

Angus, one of the BBC’s Young Reporters, tours Edinburgh's new Royal Hospital for Children and Young People (RHCYP).

A look inside the new Edinburgh kids' hospital

Here’s what four young people and a group of young refugees have been getting up to since the coronavirus pandemic completely changed their lives.

100 days of lockdown: What have young people been doing during lockdown?