“Having the platform to just grow, was crucial, and being entrusted with responsibility is the key to growing – something that young people deeply struggle to gain. You need experience to get a job, you need a job to get experience. SYN was the missing link between me being just a student – and becoming a young professional in the media industry.

I was offered free radio training via SYN’s incredible Access Programming, it was something I’d never considered doing in my life. I was terrified and enthralled.

To be told that people wanted to hear my voice, what I had to say, is there anything more terrifying than that? But then to be supported and shown that what I had to say was valued, gave me something I’d never had before, confidence, and taught me something about myself – that I can achieve anything I want.”

– Evrim, SYN participant

Hear Me Roar will bring together a group of 10 young women and gender non-conforming young people to learn media and broadcasting skills. They will work to create a weekly radio show for a school term. Each participant will also receive extra in depth training in the form of a day workshop, in addition to the standard SYN Media training, and will be supported by media mentors in their media career aspirations.

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A special thank you to the Phyllis Connor Memorial Trust for supporting this project.