UK government to invest £15m in misogyny prevention fund
The fund will support mentoring, training, and public awareness campaigns, to be confirmed at the upcoming Budget.
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Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Chancellor John Healey are preparing to deliver their first Budget in their roles
Photograph: Irish News (embedded from source)
What this story says
- The UK government will invest £15 million in a fund to combat misogyny.
- The fund will support initiatives such as mentoring for young people, workplace training, and public awareness campaigns.
- The investment is expected to be confirmed during the upcoming Budget.
- The misogyny prevention fund will bolster the work of a national taskforce led by women and equalities minister Bridget Phillipson.
Who covered it
Percentages are shares of the 6 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 3 of the 9 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .
Trust
60/100
Craft
65/100
Hype
20/100
9 sources · methodology
Thin on the right so far
None of the 6 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.
This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.
The UK government is to invest £15 million in a new fund designed to tackle misogyny. The money, which is expected to be confirmed at the upcoming Budget, will be used to support mentoring programmes for young people, training initiatives, and public awareness campaigns. This investment is intended to support the work of a national taskforce established by women and equalities minister Bridget Phillipson.
The fund will be administered by the Office for the Impact Economy in conjunction with the Office for Equality and Opportunity. Organisations will be able to apply for grants to deliver projects focused on preventing misogyny. Ministers hope this government investment will encourage additional funding from businesses and philanthropists to expand the reach of these schemes.
Differing views on the fund's impact
While the Irish News, The Independent, and The Independent (US) reported on the government's investment and its intended uses, the BBC News digest noted that the Conservatives have expressed doubt about whether the funding will lead to increased safety for women and girls.
What the coverage left out
None of the reports below mention the specific detail that the fund will be administered through the Office for the Impact Economy and the Office for Equality and Opportunity, a fact stated in the GOV.UK digest.
Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 4 times, most recently on 28 Oct 2026, 10:00, and will add the sides that appear.
How each side covered it
Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.
Left
3 rated outlets
- The left-rated reports from Irish News, The Independent, and The Independent (US) all highlighted the £15 million investment by the Chancellor to tackle misogyny. They focused on the fund's purpose, which includes supporting mentoring for young people, workplace training, and public awareness campaigns. Irish News quoted Chancellor John Healey stating the investment would "back practical action to tackle misogyny head on" and quoted Bridget Phillipson saying the funding was a "critical step" to "confine misogyny to the history books."
Centre
3 rated outlets
- The centre-rated reports from BBC News and Evening Standard focused on the £15 million investment to tackle misogyny, noting it would be confirmed at the Budget and would fund mentoring, training, and awareness campaigns. BBC News also included a note that the Conservatives doubt the fund's effectiveness in making women and girls feel safer.
Right
0 rated outlets
No outlet rated right has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.
Questions about this coverage
- How did the left and right cover UK government to invest £15m in misogyny prevention fund?
- Of the 6 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 50% are rated left, 50% are rated centre, 0% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 9. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
- Is UK government to invest £15m in misogyny prevention fund left or right?
- Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 6 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
- Is the coverage of UK government to invest £15m in misogyny prevention fund biased?
- UK government to invest £15m in misogyny prevention fund is one event reported by 9 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
- Which side is not reporting UK government to invest £15m in misogyny prevention fund?
- When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
- Which outlets covered UK government to invest £15m in misogyny prevention fund?
- 9 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
- How much will the UK government invest in the misogyny fund?
- The UK government is set to invest £15 million in a new fund aimed at tackling misogyny. This investment is expected to be confirmed at the upcoming Budget and will be spread over three years, with £5 million allocated annually.
- What will the misogyny fund support?
- The fund will provide support for a range of initiatives, including mentoring programmes for young people, workplace training, and public awareness campaigns. It is also intended to support the work of a national taskforce established by the women and equalities minister.
- Which government departments will administer the fund?
- The misogyny prevention fund will be administered through the Office for the Impact Economy, working in conjunction with the Office for Equality and Opportunity. These offices will manage the allocation of grants to organisations delivering projects.
Read it at the source
9 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.
Left
3- Chancellor invests £15m in fund to tackle misogyny (opens The Independent (US) in a new tab)
The Independent (US) — is The Independent (US) biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Chancellor invests £15m in fund to tackle misogyny (opens The Independent in a new tab)
The Independent — is The Independent biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Chancellor invests £15m in fund to tackle misogyny (opens Irish News in a new tab)
Irish News — is Irish News biased? Our profile of this outlet
Centre
3- Chancellor John Healey's Budget to include £15m to tackle misogyny (opens BBC News in a new tab)
- Chancellor invests £15m in fund to tackle misogyny (opens Belfast Telegraph in a new tab)
Belfast Telegraph — is Belfast Telegraph biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Chancellor invests £15m in fund to tackle misogyny (opens Evening Standard in a new tab)
Evening Standard — is Evening Standard biased? Our profile of this outlet
Right
0No outlet in this group ran the story.
Not rated
3- UK Launches Misogyny Prevention Fund (opens CHOCHILINO in a new tab)
CHOCHILINO — is CHOCHILINO biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Chancellor invests £15m in fund to tackle misogyny (opens Western Morning News in a new tab)
Western Morning News — is Western Morning News biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Government launches first ever misogyny prevention fund (opens GOV.UK in a new tab)
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