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BBC Children in Need have made a big difference to the lives of teenagers in Sunderland with the A690 Youth Initiative. 17 year old success story Tanya Boyd said: “I was drinking, arrested for shoplifting. I’d just fight for the simplest little thing.

A film made by young carers in the North East has been nominated at the First Light Film Awards in the Young Voice category. The young carers from Redcar and Cleveland and Middlesbrough were funded by a Redcar charity to make their film ‘A Mile In Our Shoes’. They were also given support from The Junction and Middlesbrough FC Study Skills Centre.