Our charity

Exposure is a grassroots, multi-award-winning, youth-led communications charity that empowers 14 to 25-year-olds from diverse backgrounds facing multiple challenges in North London. We provide a platform to amplify voices, engage in meaningful co-production activities and enjoy the benefits of volunteering, building skills, confidence and connections that support their journey to a fulfilling future.

Through hands-on creative projects in digital media, journalism and content creation, our beneficiaries strive for positive change on contemporary issues that matter to them most.

By producing their own outputs and sharing their own knowledge, experiences and ideas, they develop critical thinking and take control of their narratives, fostering a strong sense of agency, self-worth, achievement and belonging.

Born and raised locally, Exposure’s staff are creative professionals in copywriting, publishing, journalism, graphic design, filmmaking and web based media.

Industry experience is combined with a passion for channelling young people’s idealism and creativity. Paid freelance creatives, most of whom started as young volunteers themselves, are engaged as mentors and support specific campaigns. This ensures Exposure’s work is connected to the issues that matter to young people today.

Our collective lived experience informs meaningful, empathetic support for marginalised young people, particularly those from minority backgrounds experiencing discrimination, intergenerational trauma or alienation from mainstream UK society.

At board level Exposure has a wealth of expertise in publishing, broadcasting, banking, finance, law, IT, teaching, and local and central government. All trustees live in the community that Exposure serves.