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Fumble A happy, healthy digital world of sex ed.

By young people, for young people.

Annual Report 2022-2023

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Annual Report 2022-23

The Trustees of Fumble are pleased to present their Annual Report and Statement of Accounts for 2022-23 and confirm that they comply with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 and the Charities SORP (FRS 102). This document details Fumble’s objectives, activities, achievements and accounts for the period 6 April 2022 - 5 April 2023, and demonstrates the charity’s success in meeting its objects as a charity delivering happy and healthy relationships, wellbeing and sex education to young people up to the age of 25. For a plain text version of this report, see here.

Charity name: Fumble
Charity registration number: 1188089
Charity address: Castle Green, 7 Castle St, Shefeld, S3 8LT
Names of charity trustees: Ellie Stone (Chair)
Asha Arul (Secretary)
Charlotte Chorley
Chris Pugh
Emily Setty
Adam Waddingham
CEO of the Charity: Lucy Whitehouse
Independent Examiner: Solutions Accountancy and Bookkeeping Ltd

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Contents

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Introduction to Fumble

Fumble is an award-winning world of relationships, sex youth charity, leading the and health education (RSHE) way in supporting young for young people. people with their mental health, sexual health and Now a nationally-recognised, relationships in the digital award-winning charity, we age. believe that all young people

Now a nationally-recognised, award-winning charity, we believe that all young people deserve quality, accurate education about sex, relationships, their bodies, their identities and their mental health. This is especially urgent in the digital age, when the challenges young people face on these topics are unprecedented.

'Fumble is like the knowledgeable best friend every young person needs when growing up. A handbook for everyone, to guide them in making the right sex and relationship choices for themselves.' Amy, 19

Established in 2017 by a team of volunteers in their twenties, Fumble engages young people to create a happy, healthy free digital

Our charitable objective is advancing the education of the public, particularly young people up to the age of 25,

Introduction to Fumble

on RSHE (Relationships, Sex and Health Education). We do this through our trusted, quality, co-created digital content and our specialised programme of RSHE advocacy, training and consultancy.

All of Fumble’s activities are developed in line with our guiding values to be:

Safeguarding and quality control is the bedrock of everything we do at Fumble. We exist to ensure young

people can lead safe, happy, healthy lives, and so we take our responsibility for creating age-appropriate resources and programmes very seriously.

To ensure that we are protecting users, we have developed a suite of tools and processes that ensure our content is always accessed by young people who are developmentally ready for it.

We’re guided in this by our expert advisory panel, including NHS doctors, leading academics in the field of RSHE, safeguarding specialists and legal experts.

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Introduction to Fumble

Fumble especially aims to meet the needs and experiences of young people that have been traditionally left out of mainstream

provision of sex education, including:

We are proud of our impact to date. In our first three years of operating as a registered charity, we have

reached over 2 million UK young people online, and worked directly with over 750 young people to co-create everything Fumble does.

“Teenagers are going to want to explore, it’s best to provide them with the answers they need instead of trying to stop them.” Matt, 17

This Annual Report outlines how we have built our transformative impact during 2022-23, and details how our unique, urgently-needed service is transforming the lives of young people in the UK today. Thank you for reading.

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Introduction to Fumble: how we work

Digital content

Co-creation with young people

‘Handy guide’ website content: top quality information on core topics

Education & insights workshops: one-offs Co-creation series: workshop series on a topic or theme Annual national Fumble youth survey Youth Advisory Board Young freelance content producers & paid project committee members

‘Feed’ website content: fun & personal style (including quizzes, videos, podcasts)

We make sure that young people have the skills and knowledge to successfully manage their sexual health, mental health and relationships today. We do this through our top quality, trusted co-created digital content.

Social media content: directed at core youth audience

Digital campaigns on core topics: LGBTQ+, women and girls, mental health, BAME experiences and more

Aim : Be a top trusted resource for young people looking for sex education online

Impact so far: Over 2 million UK young people reached with our free, quality online resources in 2020-22.

Aim : Involve as many young people in co-creating Fumble content as possible, from diverse and varied backgrounds Impact so far : 750 young people involved in our dynamic, asset-based co-creation process in 2020-22. 7

Introduction to Fumble: our co-creation model Identify key & evolving topics Youth voice Social media community Seoping Participation Review Online community Annual surve out visor Board Fumble's co-creation Paitnershi working Contribulors & Workshops Safeguardin Collaboration Leveraging expertise Maximising itnpacl Ringfenced funds for marginalised voices Young freelance professionals Collaborative workshops Our bedrock Award-winning age-appropriale, quality-controlled content First class staff team Regular training & reviews Expert advisory panel

Organisation structure: core team

Lucy Whitehouse CEO

Emilie Cousins Naz Toorabally Programme Manager Digital Content & Community Officer

Jalela Amari Leigh Virtual Assistant

Rosie Quirke Digital Media Lead (volunteer)

Jake Ellis Graphic Designer

Kerry Miller Digital Content & Community Officer

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Organisation structure: Trustee Board

Ellie Stone Chair 2022-23

Asha Arul Dr Emily Setty Trustee Trustee

Charlotte Chorley

Trustee

Chris Pugh Trustee

Dr Adam Waddingham Trustee

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Expert Advisory Panel

Dr Yasmin Walters Tamsin Watson Dr Faith Gordon HIV and Sexual Health Senior Safeguarding Associate Professor Specialty Registrar, Manager at of Law and Deputy Chelsea and YoungMinds | Associate Dean Westminster Hospital Safeguarding Lead at (Research) at The ANU NHS Foundation Trust Blink Mental Health College of Law

Dr Yvette Taylor Peter Bohm Helen Keevil Professor of Corporate Lawyer at Deputy Head at Education, LGBTQ+ gunnercooke LLP, hub Abingdon School. specialist, University leader of Inspire* Hub Expert in pastoral, of Strathclyde peer support group for mental health, e-safety Glasgow charity leaders & wellbeing

Our staff team and all of our programmes are constantly guided by our panel of expert advisors.

This is a group of leaders in their specialist fields, who steer our outputs and our impact.

Their active participation throughout the year ensures quality control of the highest calibre across our programmes, our content and our resources.

Our experts include NHS doctors (including sexual & reproductive health specialists and paediatricians), leading academics in the field of RSHE, safeguarding specialists , digital marketing consultants , finance and legal experts , and more.

Here we shine a spotlight onto six representative members of our expert advisory panel.

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What young people are saying…

“Fumble underestimates the importance its platform is going to have in so many young people’s lives. It’s such a fantastic way to reach out to my generation.”

Isabel, 17

“Fumble matters because it’s a voice for young people that we don’t often admit we need.”

Ebony-Renee, 21

“I’m 22 with a history of sex work and sexual abuse. Through the things I have seen and have happened to me, I have learned so many things about how important sex education is to young men and women. This is why I am coming to Fumble.”

Beth, 22

“Fumble matters because LGBTQ+ people need sex education too.”

Jake, 20

“Fumble is the knowledgeable best friend that every young person needs growing up. A handbook for everyone, to guide them in the right sex and relationships choices.”

Amy, 19

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What our supporters are saying…

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“My Rainbow Club [LGBTQ+] at
school love the resources on
Fumble and are avid users of the
website.”
Secondary School Teacher
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“I wish something like that had existed when I was growing up. It's so important to have open, honest dialogue with young people about sex.” Parent/carer

“Excellent work. Such a valuable resource, badly needed. Thank you." Parent/carer

“I was a sex ed teacher for 14 years in the high schools of Edinburgh. We lost our funding!! I love the name Fumble and your potential reach is huge.” Youth worker

“I know that high quality RSE lessons can't ever be the whole solution. What's always been missing is a safe online space to take learning forward away from the classroom. Finally, someone is joining the dots!” School Governor

“I genuinely believe that Fumble is offering something unique and essential for young people.”

Dr Emily Setty, University of Surrey

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Activities and impact

In this section, we document the main activities undertaken by Fumble over the last year to meet our objectives for 2022-23. Please find our objectives below, with spotlights on our impact towards these objectives in the following slides.

Our objectives

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📈📱 Fumble’s digital reach and impact

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Backed by
“This manifesto represents all
the hope young people have in
the potential of online
sex education.”
Joana, Youth Advisory Board
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Our Youth Manifesto We partnered with involved over 200 Superdrug young people, and 2. and deliver a national reached over 900,000 online. our ‘You Before Yes’ campaign. It was backed by 9 major national charities, We wrote the including campaign FAQS forFAQS for YoungMinds the main campaign and Brook. site and contributed We found that 89% We delivered three We deliv red some brilliant guest of young blogs and graphics. people a resource want national campaigns for three like Fumble. young people! Explore our national campaigns! 840,000young men (14-18) 1/3 full campaign here. reached - that’s 22% of clicked through to site population for this age - very high for our group! small budget! Award-winning men - typically a campaign really 3. comms agency hard-to-reach resonated, RAPP supported us demographic for supporting young to deliver an our sector. men and boys Instagram across the UK with campaign aimed The ‘Don’t Google their essential sex at boys and young It, Fumble It’ ed questions.

We partnered with Superdrug to develop and deliver a national campaign on consent: our ‘You Before Yes’ campaign.

We wrote the campaign FAQS forFAQS for the main campaign site and contributed some brilliant guest blogs and graphics.

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Watch the video here.

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Fumble’s digital reach and impact

Fumble has a large and growing digital reach

Our website

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226,805
unique pageviews
32% increase
year-on-year
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Our social channels

Fundamental questions: People with very fundamental questions about sex and sexual identity (LGBTQ+) are finding Fumble online.

Age: We reach our primary youth demographic, and also resonate with older audiences too. Comprehensive relationships and sex education is needed across all age groups . Fumble is responding and accessible to all.

Gender: We reach both men and women (Google’s analytics are binary), working towards our vision of addressing gendered violence through comprehensive, healthy, positive relationships and sex education content for everyone.

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👥 Our co-creation & youth engagement

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Our annual
Charity Day
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New Youth Advisory Board
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We recruited a brilliant new cohort of our YAB, ensuring that lived and current experiences across a diverse group of young people continue to drive our services.

Full website & channels review

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300 Age
articles reviewed appropriate
by RSHE expert quality, safe
specialists content
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We map our content against reliable, leading resources, including the NSPCC, UNESCO, and the Sex Education Forum’s guidance.

Safeguarding

We expanded our co-creation with young people! Some highlights…

Safeguarding is the bedrock of everything we do at Fumble. Highlights this year include…

1. Review 2. Best practice & 3. Our Expert Advisor Our Designated knowledge We’re guided by our Safeguarding Officer sharing expert external led a full We attend a advisor, Tamsin safeguarding review monthly Watson, Safeguarding across our training & knowledge sharing Manager at processes. session. YoungMinds.

Our national youth survey of over 200 young people

Over half 75% 89% of young people had want us to educate want a happy, healthy used porn to learn parents & carers about online sex ed resource about sex & intimacy . the online world like Fumble

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Explore the full data here: https://drive.google.com/fle/d/1TFcLrylSn7VFDAOiW7b98rTdgfxlYmdf/view?usp=sharing

Partnerships and collaborations

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Networks, awards
& accreditations
Collaborations
We’re a leading voice
in the UK relationships &
sex education
sector!
Press & media
Download your
free
Fumble poster
here
Listen
here
four awards
Shortlisted for
Purpose Awards!
‘Best proof of authenticity’ in the
‘Best use of creativity’
‘Best use of digital/social media’
‘Best health cause campaign’
Fumble was in the top
over 1000 99 applications out of
to receive this
funding & support.
Featured by
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Message from the CEO

Fumble was started by a group of young volunteers in our twenties with lived experience of inadequate sex education.

As members of the first generation to grow up alongside smartphones and the internet, we understand the significant new challenges this poses to young people when it comes to developing healthy understandings of relationships, health and wellbeing. We also see the enormous potential of a happy, healthy, free digital world of relationships, sex and health education. That’s Fumble.

We’re so proud of where we’ve managed to take Fumble as we

reach the end of our third Impact Award, Garfield Weston, financial year and look forward and UK Youth’s Thriving Minds to our new three year strategy. programme. Today, we continue to be led by young people through our I’m proud every day of all the Youth Advisory Board. All of our volunteers, expert advisors, work is co-created with young funders and individual people, putting their voices at supporters who have helped us the heart of everything we do. get here, and who continue to play an instrumental role in We’ve reached over 2 million making Fumble happen. Young UK young people, worked people today need Fumble - the directly with over 750 young alternative is the toxic people to make it happen , and resources they end up turning partnered with leading to, including online pornography organisations in our sector (1) and misogynistic online including NCS, YoungMinds and influencers like Andrew Tate. (2) Brook. We’re award winning, and have been supported by With your support, we can some prestigious national continue to combat this stark funders, including the King’s reality , working with and for Fund via their GSK

young people to, in the words of our young volunteer Ebony-Renee, ‘be the voice for young people’ . Find out more about our work, from some of the people making it happen, here: Fumble matters. Thank you, and let’s keep going! Sign up to our newsletter to keep in touch here

Lucy Whitehouse

  1. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/13/adults-are-terrifed-of-talking-to-us-about-it-10-things-i-learned-from-children-about-pornography 2. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/09/andrew-tate-young-men-social-media-motivational-sexism

CEO

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Plans ahead 🚀

To continue building on our exciting foundation, our upcoming three year strategy has four core aims:

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Financial overview

We are pleased to have continued to develop Fumble and to have increased our income by nearly 100% in our third financial year, reaching an overall income of £100,480. This is a remarkable achievement.

We have demonstrated the efficiency and impact of our operations, and are pleased that Fumble attracts high levels of support from both funders and individual donors. Fumble takes its financial health seriously. We have established robust financial controls and put processes in place to ensure sound financial management, risk management best practice and the financial sustainability of Fumble.

Receipts and payments

Our accounts have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis, in line with Charity Commission guidance. Our 2021/22 accounts were also prepared on a receipts and payments basis, and as such there are no prepayments or accruals to realise this year.

Fumble's reserves policy

It is the policy of Fumble to hold in reserves the equivalent of two months of general running costs (including staff costs). In its early growth phase, Fumble’s objective is to continue to increase its reserves over time to reach and maintain three months of general running costs. This approach is on the basis of Fumble's current commitments and expenditure, and reflects the

particular demands of the current, early point in our growth. We will review this reserves policy within 12 months, or if our committed expenditure changes before that point.

Independent Examination In line with the Charity Commission’s requirements, the following annual accounts have been independently examined by Solutions Accountancy Ltd: solutionsaccountancy.co.uk

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Receipts and payments accounts (CC16a)

Charity name: Fumble Charity number: 1188089

From the period from 6th April 2022 to 5th April 2023

Section A

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Receipts and payments accounts (CC16a)

Charity name: Fumble Charity number: 1188089 From the period from 6th April 2022 to 5th April 2023

Section B

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Independent Examination

Independent Examiner's Report to the trustees of Fumble

Charity No. 1188089

I report to the trustees on my examination of the financial statements of Fumble for the year ended 05 th April 2023 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, the Statement of Assets and Liabilities and the related notes on pages 21-22.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity's trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011('the Act'). The trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under the Charities Act 2011, s.144(2) (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed.

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the financial statements to be reached.

I report in respect of my examination of the charity's financial statements carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I can confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

Victoria Newham

CPAA Solutions Accountancy & Bookkeeping Ltd 1 The Mews Little Brunswick Street Huddersfield HD1 5JL 27 September 2023

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Trustee’s Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report and annual accounts above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees: Signature: Full name: Ellie Stone Position: Chair Date: 20/09/2023

Ellie Stone Chair 2022-23

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Thank you fumble.org.uk

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Fumble’s generous supporters in 2022-23 included

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