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Shout Out UK (SOUK) is a youth-led organisation providing training and programmes on Media Literacy & Political literacy via offline and online programmes and a blogging platform for young people, based in the United Kingdom. Its mission is to help schools implement Political Literacy, whilst providing young people with a platform to share information, debate and discuss issues they are passionate about.

SOUK was formed in August 2015 by Matteo Bergamini, whilst studying at Brunel University in Uxbridge. . As a youth-led social enterprise, the organise aimed to bring Political Literacy to the British curriculum, ensuring all students in secondary school had a basic understanding of how British Democracy functioned.

Youth Leaders' Debate
Shout Out UK gathered all of the youth leaders of the seven major British political parties in one place to debate politics and youth issues in front of a studio audience and Live-streamed through All4 , an online platform owned by Channel 4 News on the 28th April 2015. The project was partnered by Channel 4 News and received UK wide coverage.

The Youth Leaders Debate, hosted by Fatima Manji from Channel 4 News, reinvigorated the usual seven-panel debate by introducing buzzers. Seven themes were presented to the panelists, each had one chance to 'buzz in' and have one minute protected time for one question. Representatives from all the major UK political parties took part in the debate. 

Political Literacy
Shout Out UK's Political Literacy Course covers an Introduction to British Politics, International Relations and Political Theory, Media Literacy and debating and public speaking. The course ends with a Speech Night, during which students deliver speeches on issues they’re passionate about in front of their parents/carers and local/regional/national politicians hosted at the school. The organisation aims to enhance students’ ability to influence local policymaking, to engage in activism and to build their overall Emotional Resilience and Confidence.

With the decline of citizenship education and no GCSE on Government and Politics, the political literacy course was seen as a revival of political education in schools. Shout Out UK was awarded the Harrow Business Den award that year.

Due to the work in schools, Shout Out UK was asked to give evidence to the House of Lords select committee, alongside Voter Registration charity Bite The Ballot on Citizenship that led to the report The Ties that Bind.

National Democracy Week
On the 5th July 2018, Shout Out UK ran an event to ‘hack’ the problem Parliament has with the lack of representation of women, particularly those who are BAME or LGBTQ+. Despite 2018 marking the centenary of some women being allowed to vote, parliament still does not represent the diversity of the UK, with only 32 per cent of the House of Commons identifying as female that year.

The event was hosted by Alexis Wieroniey, an American comedian and women’s rights activist. Speakers included Milly Evans; founder of Our Progress Project, Valerie Vaz, the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons. and Andrea Leadsom the then leader of the House of Commons.

PoliFest 2019
On June 25th, Shout Out UK hosted #PoliFest, a festival briging together politicians and young people to play sports and debate politics at Brunel University. PoliFest aimed to bring politicians and young people together through playing sport and to break down the barriers between Britain’s youth and the ‘Westminster Bubble’.

The event was attended by both young people and politicians, including MPs Johnny Mercer, Nigel Huddleston and Tom Brake.

#NoVoteNoVoice & Political Drillin
For the 2019 General Election, Shout Out UK partnered with DrillMinister, a UK Drill music rap artist made famous for his track Political Drillin featured on Channel 4 News, to create a campaign to get young people registered to vote. The collaboration involved the creation of a track to encourage young people to register to vote and ultimately vote. The track went viral after being released on the youtube channel Mixtap Madness. It later featured on SBTV and UniLad Sound.

The project culminated with a concert held at Fairfield hall in Croydon on the final night before voter registration closed. That day it was estimated that over 600,000 people registered to vote, including over 250,000 under 25s