About SOUK

Founded by Matteo Bergamini in 2015, Shout Out UK was launched to fix the lack of political education in schools by bringing young people together to talk and learn about politics.

Shout Out UK (SOUK) is now a multi-award winning education platform and creative social enterprise. Fusing education and tech with film production and animation ensures we create world-class programmes on Media & Political Literacy and high impact Democratic Engagement campaigns.

Our Mission

Shout Out UK is on a mission to protect and amplify democracy by ensuring Political Literacy education is as widespread as possible, and available to all citizens in and out of school, regardless of their socio-economic background, ethnicity, or gender.

The UN declared a global infodemic in 2020. Until young people are given the tools to identity disinformation for themselves, extreme views will thrive and democracy will suffer. Let’s make political literacy available to everyone.

Our Awards

  • Democracy Pioneer 2020, Awarded by Nesta
  • Youth-Led Award 2018, Awarded by The British Youth Council.
  • Harrow Business Den Winner of 2016, Awarded by Harrow Council.

Political Literacy & Media Literacy Experts

Some of our key stats

of participants ‘Strongly Agreed’ and ‘Agreed’ that they can understand the difference between rehabilitation and punishment following participation in our programme 87.9%
of participants ‘Strongly Agreed’ and ‘Agreed’ that they can identify hate speech following participation in our programme 74.5%
of participants ‘Strongly Agreed’ and ‘Agreed’ that they know which steps to take to verify a source following participation in our programme 92.0%
of young people strongly agreed and agreed that they could understand how the UK’s political system works following participation in our programme. 71.4%
of students strongly agreed and agreed that they could spot media bias following participation in our programme 72.5%

Our Social Impact Reports

Shout Out UK Annual Political Literacy Report 2020 – 2021

London Voter Registration Week: Evaluation Report 2021

SOUK – Extremism and Media Literacy Programme Impact Report 2021

Shout Out UK Political Literacy Annual Report 2019 – 2020

London Voter Registration Week 2020

Our Team

SOUK Announcements