Grants Focus Week: From Communities to Classrooms
Learning from our grant funded projects
Monday 22nd – Sunday 28th September 2025
Our next focus week, From Communities to Classrooms, invites you to explore the rich learning emerging from our diverse grant-funded projects. From storytelling to film-making, home education to school partnerships, we’ll be showcasing some of the creative ways communities and educators are working together to inspire change and deepen understanding of religion and worldviews and showcasing resources suitable for using in schools and educational settings.
We will explore
- How can creative collaborations between communities and educators enrich religion and worldviews education?
- What role do authentic voices play in shaping meaningful learning experiences in RE/RME/RVE?
- How can funding empower educators and communities to co-create meaningful learning experiences?
Key events during the week:
Monday 22nd September, 7pm-tbc ‘Teaching Sikhi in RE’ online report launch
Join Professor Jasjit Singh, Professor of Religion and Global Engagement at the University of Leeds, for the launch of a new report and set of recommendations exploring approaches to teaching Sikhi in religious education and the role that communities can play.
Sign-up link coming soon.
Tuesday 23rd September, Creating Stronger Funding Applications: Tips from our Grants Manager
Join us for a practical and supportive online masterclass designed to help you submit a strong application to our main project grants fund. We’ll walk through the key things we look for, share common pitfalls to avoid, and answer your questions. Whether you’re applying for the first time or looking to improve a previous submission, this session will help you feel more confident and prepared.
With Julia Minnear – Grants, Governance and Partnerships Manager at Culham St Gabriel’s. Registration link.
Thursday 25th September, 4.30pm-5.30pm ‘In Conversation’ event: How do we amplify authentic voices in religion and worldviews education?
How do we ensure that authentic voices are heard and valued in religion and worldviews education? Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with educators and community leaders.
This ‘in conversation’ will be hosted by Fiona Moss with:
Emily Bignell, CEO and Artistic Director at Shooting Fish Theatre Company, and collaborator on the Empowering Voices project with Lincoln Diocesan Board of Education which brought together artists, schools, community development facilitators, and individuals from a range of religious and non-religious worldviews to explore how lived experiences relate to a wider national context.
Simone Roberts, home educator and member of the decision-making panel for the Religion and Worldviews Home Educators’ Fund. The fund offers small grants to home educating families to develop their religion and worldviews learning in creative ways.
Alexis Sherwood, Head of Philosophy & Ethics at Brighton Girls – Girls’ Day School Trust, developing a feminist religion and worldviews curriculum at KS3
Stefanie Sinclair, Head of Discipline and Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University, working on Docutubes Method. The Docutube method supports young people’s active learning about religious diversity in the past and present through the creative process of making short documentary-style films (‘Docutubes’).
Roman Williams, Founder, Interfaith Photovoice, a social enterprise that uses an arts based approach to interfaith and intergroup dialogue. Roman is working on L8 Interfaith Photovoice, a project based in Liverpool which aims to improve religious literacy, strengthen interreligious relationships, and address stereotypes and bias through an art-based participatory action technique called photovoice.
Sign-up to the In Conversation event here.
Don’t miss…
We will also be publishing blogs, short films and a research and resource spotlight from a selection of our grant-holders.
Mark it in your diary and watch this space! Nearer the time we will add a timetable to let you know when things will become available on our website.
We welcome conversation, do get in touch and let us know what you think on our social media channels.
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*When we use the phrase RE or religion and worldviews education it is inclusive of another names for the subjects, particularly Religion, Values and Ethics (RVE) in Wales and Religious and Moral Education (RME) in Scotland