A group of local graduates and university lecturers have set up a campaign to help the youths of Calais refugee camps.

The volunteers from Falmouth University are running a project entitled Clips From Calais, which will be taking place at the end of this month, involving a week long series of workshops for the young people in the migrant camps aged 12 and over.

The workshops will cover basic camera work, including editing skills, and the result will be screened to the residents of the camp and shared online.

The aim of this project is to help the youths of the camps to set up their own YouTube Channel, giving them the opportunity to record and document their own experiences, so they can share their stories.

Jake Graves said: "Within our own mainstream media here in the UK, refugees have had a generally negative representation, and Clips From Calais hopes to change that. By enabling the young residents to create their own content, they can manage their own portrayal."

The workshops will be run by David Morris, lecturer of Film and Television at Falmouth University and company director of S2S Media; Katarina Compl'ova, an independent filmmaker; Claire Stevens, project supervisor at S2S Media and Jake Martin Graves, a documentary practitioner at S2S Media.

The cameras being used to run the workshop have been supplied by Falmouth University's School of Film and Television.

The project is being funded through Crowdfunder as the volunteers are looking to raise £1,500 for the campaign. More information is available online at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/clips-from-calais.