Teenagers from Oxford have been using video cameras to learn about their cultural roots - as part of a £25,000 project.

More than 20 young people from African Caribbean families have been videoing interviews with second generation immigrants for the Young Roots project.

The budding filmmakers have learnt about the troubles black immigrants faced when they arrived in Oxford as children in the 1960s.

Organisers have also arranged museum visits as part of the scheme, including a trip by 40 people to the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, on Saturday.

Young Roots kicked off in August after the Heritage Lottery Fund donated £25,000 to the project.

People involved in the scheme travel to the Blackbird Leys Community Centre once a week to meet, interview and film volunteers from Oxford's black community about their first impression of their new homes four decades ago.

Many interviewees have described the racism they suffered and the strange sensation of waving goodbye to their grandparents and friends in order to start a new life with their parents - and in some cases brothers and sisters they had never met before.

Denecia Frater, 16, from Three Corners Road, Greater Leys, said: "The project is great. It just lets us identify the history of black people.

"We have found out things that we were surprised about, like the racism people went through and how they teach their children their own culture.

"Another thing was how people met up with their parents when they first came over here and there was a really warm welcome. I could imagine them seeing their families for the first time and that must have been a wonderful feeling of joy."

Youth worker Dolcie Obhiozele, who oversees the project, said the aim was to create a website with the teenagers' findings.

Ms Obhiozele, who moved from Jamaica to Chester Street, Iffley, as a child, said: "It was a strange feeling - very cold and very grey and lots of snow.

"Leaving your families behind and coming to join your parents here was a bit of a trauma."

She added: "The project is a positive thing and these experiences are something that we feel we need to record and document."