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Shout Out UK Impact Report 2025/26

Shout Out UK's 2025/26 impact report, Defending Democracy Through Political and Media Literacy, covers a year of countering disinformation, upskilling educators and professionals, engaging young people in democracy and advocating for media literacy in the national curriculum.

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Shout Out UK is an award-winning social enterprise equipping the next generation with the political and media literacy needed to resist disinformation and defend democracy.

Key Metrics

Young people trained More than 20,000 young people received media literacy training in schools and other settings during the report period.
Educators upskilled More than 3,000 educators and frontline professionals engaged in CPD programmes, including 1,054 professionals trained in an Ofcom-commissioned prebunking programme.
Confidence boosted Participants' confidence in implementing prebunking interventions rose from 9% to 97% following training.
Campaign reach The #DISMISS counter-disinformation campaign garnered 13.5 million impressions, and educational digital campaigns reached over 1 million young voters across England and Scotland.

Key Outcomes

  • Media literacy was embedded into the National Curriculum in England from primary school level following Shout Out UK's policy advocacy as secretariat of the APPG on Political and Media Literacy.

Geography

UK-Wide

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