Tender – the charity behind Netflix’s “Adolescence” – received over £1 MILLION of taxpayers’ money in 2025

In addition to the millions it has already had

This week it was announced that the Government is to launch misogyny training for boys at schools.

One organisation very-much involved in this scheme is Tender, the charity behind the Netflix show Adolescence.


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In March this year it was announced that Tender would “produce guides and resources for teachers, parents and carers to navigate conversations around the series.”

It has been given large sums of government funding to do this; £1,130,810, in fact, for the year 2025 (when you add income from government contracts and income from government grants together):

Between 2021 to 2025 it has been awarded £3,909,260 in taxpayer funding.

Starmer and Jess Phillips recently visited a Tender workship to launch the new government strategy to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG):

A press release from Tender explained that the Prime Minister had had a “front row seat to a Tender workshop which harnessed the charity’s drama-based approach to explore healthy relationships, including key concepts like consent and early signs of abuse.”

Drama is central to Tender’s approach, hence why Olivia Colman (and her husband – helpfully pictured next to their pronouns) are patrons of the charity…

Colman was pictured with Starmer yesterday at a “modern retelling of Red Riding Hood”:

Unfortunately I don’t think we will see any dramas about the biggest threat to women and girls right now: open borders.

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