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Sky Kids Investigates: World. War. Me.

CHILDREN’S DOCUMENTARY (SKY KIDS; SKY NEWS)
16 year old refugee Bana Alabed, 2025 Children’s Peace Prize Winner, explores what life is like for over 450 million children around the world affected by armed conflict – around one in six of all children.

My Life: The Snowman and Me

CHILDREN’S DOCUMENTARY (CBBC; BBC iPlayer)
Exclusive behind the scenes access from auditions to the first performance as two nine year olds, Phoenix and Teddy, take on the lead role of the boy in the Christmas production of The Snowman on the West End stage.

Sky Kids Investigates: Are we running out of Water?

CHILDREN’S DOCUMENTARY (SKY KIDS; SKY NEWS)
10-year-old sustainability advocate Moksha investigates the global water crisis being driven by climate change. She reveals how clean water supplies in the UK are under threat, and how communities around the world are devastated by a lack of safe, reliable water. She shows UK families how much water they’re wasting, what we should all be doing to save water – and what the consequences could be if we don’t.

Sky Kids Investigates: Disability and Me

CHILDREN’S DOCUMENTARY (SKY KIDS; SKY NEWS)
One in ten children in Britain have a disability. But many disabled viewers to our FYI news show told us they don’t get the support they need, so we set out to give them a voice. Contributors show us their day-to-day challenges and reveal they often feel isolated and even bullied. We arrange for them to meet the Education Secretary with an eye-opening action plan.

Winner – Children’s BAFTA

Sky Kids Investigates: Who’s Controlling Your Mind?

CHILDREN’S DOCUMENTARY (SKY KIDS; SKY NEWS)
In this highly topical film, young presenters Rosie and Jeriah conduct a series of experiments to show the power of advertising and the internet to influence young people’s decisions. They demonstrate just how much information we unwittingly give away about ourselves online, and discover how algorithms built into searches reinforce extreme and negative behaviour.

CHILDREN UNITED – The world’s first global news channel for children


Children are 30% of the world’s people but 100% of the future. And, yet, this generation is growing up in an online world overflowing with algorithms, misinformation, deepfakes and polarising narratives that shape how they see themselves – and each other.

Fresh Start Media has founded the Children United movement
 to change that.
Our mission is to give all children everywhere access to news and information they can trust. Children United is powered by collaboration and, working with a number of trusted content partners including Sky, WWF, Unicef and The Science Museum, we have launched TVCU, the world’s first global news channel for children, giving free access to truthful, balanced and age-appropriate news they can trust. Children have a right to understand the world, not be manipulated by it. Upholding Article 17 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, TVCU protects childhood, levels the information playing field, and ensures every child – wherever they live – has the power to understand their world and change it for the better.
TVCU’s content includes our BAFTA-winning documentaries and daily news for young people made with content partners, Sky News and Sky Kids. See it for yourself at childrenunited.com

The future hasn’t been written yet… and children hold the pen.

Sky Kids: COP26 Introduction from HRH The Prince of Wales

In the middle of the Covid pandemic Fresh Start Media was commissioned by Sky Kids to deliver a major documentary to play at the next international COP climate conference, being held in 2021 in Glasgow in the UK.  COP26: In Your Hands features six young climate activists in six continents, each with their own story to tell about how climate change has affected their country and with a message for world leaders. The documentary is introduced by HRH The Prince of Wales with the UK Prime Minister responding to the activists’ messages. The film made international headlines.

FYI

Award-winning weekly news show for Sky Kids and Sky News, 2018-2025, presented by children for children.

WOW!

Our sponsored YouTube channel and SKY KIDS series on all things tech 8 x 20 minutes
(Available Under Licence/ Sponsored)

I Don’t Get It

A core Fresh Start Media mission from the start has been to make sense of the world for young people, and our I Don’t Get It explainers use the latest CGI graphics to tackle complex issues and news stories.