Becca and I went down to St Hildas Community centre in Bethnal Green along with ex Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq to talk to young people about issues that affect them. The project is called Tagmap and it’s about getting young Muslims to talk about their perspectives on current events and what they relate to.

We started the workshop off with a brainstorm of all the things that we would like to address and talk about in the workshop. I think this helped them to open up more and to express views that aren’t normally shared. The main part of the workshop was getting the girls to film themselves talking about what they thought was important and felt needed to be told. The conversations were broad and included issues around identity, the media, the Muslim and non-Muslim community and generational differences. It’s not often that young people are asked such questions so to find out what they thought helped me to build my own perspective on things.

The responses were then uploaded on to our website: tagmap.wordpress.com

Young people can view the videos on the website and agree or disagree also leave their comments. I think this is a great way interacting with other people and finding out what they think about issues that affect them.