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Humanist worldview traditions
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Focus week: From Communities to Classrooms – Exploring the Impact of our Grant-Funded Projects

22nd September – 28th September 2025

 

This page brings together all the resources, links, and materials shared during our Grants Focus Week, which highlighted the diverse learning emerging from grant-funded projects. From storytelling to film-making, home education to school partnerships, we explored creative ways in which communities and educators are working together to inspire change and deepen understanding of religion and worldviews.

The content here will be of interest to teachers, educators, community partners, researchers, and anyone looking to enrich RE/RVE/RME through creative practice and authentic voices.

During the focus week, we explored key questions such as:

  • 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?

On Monday 22nd September, Professor Jasjit Singh hosted the “Teaching Sikhi in RE” the online report launch.

On Tuesday 23rd September, we hosted a free online grant application masterclass.

This event was hosted by Julia Minnear, our Grants Manager. We shared practical tips, showcased successful projects, and offered tailored advice to help you shape your ideas. We will be posting a subtitled recording of this event on this page in the coming weeks.

On Thursday 25th September, we hosted a free online ‘in conversation’, ‘How do we amplify authentic voices in religion and worldviews education?’. We will be posting a subtitled recording of this event on this page in the coming weeks.

This ‘in conversation’ was 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.

The recording of this is available to watch below.

In addition to these online events, we published the following blogs:

Using Photovoice to Foster Interfaith Dialogue and Community Connection in Liverpool 8, Joseph Ramsden, Projects Lead for Kuumba Imani Milenium Centre

What Kind of Religious Education do People in Northern Ireland Want?, James Nelson, Senior Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast and Rebecca Loader, Senior Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast

Investigating the Ethics of Conversations About Religion in Primary Schools, Sarah Holmes, Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Liverpool Hope University and Director of Research at CYM

Religion, Values and Ethics and Religious Studies in Wales: Building Confident Educators for the New GCSE, Dr Gareth Evans-Jones, Co-Director of the National Centre of Religious Education for Wales

From the Margins to the Middle: Co-creating space for Home Educators to explore Religion and Worldviews, Alice Khimasia, Community Panel Member for Religion and Worldviews Home Educators’ Fund

We also shared a more in-depth look at our funding priorities for this year, from our CEO Kathryn Wright.

We shared this research spotlight from Dr Martha Shaw and Alexis Stones.This project responds to the rise of polarisation, nationalism and discrimination by recognising classrooms as crucial spaces for dialogue, participation and reflexive citizenship. It brings together researchers, teachers and teacher educators in Religious Education and Citizenship to co-create a pedagogical framework that supports teaching for citizenship in a plural society, practical resources that reflect the realities of young people’s lived experiences and new ways of thinking about the role of religion and worldviews

Our resource spotlight is from The Lincoln Diocesan Board of Education, who worked with creative partners including Shooting Fish Theatre Company, Cultural solutions UK and Taylormade Arts to help children and young people explore religions and beliefs through the arts. Their most recent project, the brilliant Empowering Voices, builds on this work by producing eight podcast episodes, each one co-created with pupils and focused on a different religious or non-religious perspective.

We also shared a series of films from some of our other grant funded projects.

STARME (Scottish Teachers Association of Religious and Moral Education): A reflection on STARME Festival of Learning

With support from Culham St Gabriel’s, STARME launched the Festival of Learning, an initiative designed to bring teachers and researchers together, building bridges between the classroom and research. The festival showcases best practice in Religious and Moral Education, helping participants strengthen their curriculum and pedagogy. Crucially, it creates space for collaboration, addressing the lack of classroom-relevant research in the subject by encouraging dialogue between those teaching day-to-day and those investigating how learning happens.

Reflecting on STARME Festival of Learning

 

An introduction to Theos’ “Where is Religion and Worldviews” project

This fantastic initiative explores how people encounter religion and worldviews education in less formal settings, from school community programmes and libraries to family contexts.

The project is working to map where this kind of education is already taking place, develop a clear typology of informal learning spaces and create a reproducible methodology to support future local mapping efforts

By shining a light on these spaces, Theos aims to broaden our understanding of how communities engage with questions of religion, belief, and identity beyond the classroom.

Theos' "Where is Religion and Worldviews" project

 

Reflecting on the Cloud of Witnesses Interfaith Art Project

Fleur Dorrell, Biblical Apostolate Manager at the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, introduces the fantasticCloud of Witnesses. Working across faiths, St John’s Waterloo and the Catholic Bishops’ Conference, advised by Art + Christianity, brought together artists to explore faith and divinity in new ways.

Through an exhibition of diverse artworks, inspired by different traditions, cultures, and experiences, the project raises awareness, deepens understanding, and fosters dialogue around how faith is portrayed and understood in the UK.

Cloud of Witnesses: Interfaith Art Project

 

Making an impact with King College London Chaplaincy Centre’s Connection and Collaboration Project

In July, Kings College London Chaplaincy Centre hosted Connection & Collaboration: A Multi-Faith and Belief Conference for Higher Education Chaplains with support from Culham St Gabriel’s. In this video, Revd Sarah Farrow, Vice Dean and Chaplain to the St Thomas’ & Waterloo Campuses, reflects on the impact of the event.

The conference brought chaplains and faith advisors together to deepen understanding of different religions and beliefs, build religious literacy in higher education and strengthen interfaith dialogue and shared learning

Connection and Collaboration: A Multi-Faith and Belief Conference for Chaplains

 

An introduction to the London School of Economics Faith Centre’s Religious Imaginations project

With support from Culham St Gabriel’s, The London School of Economics and Political Science Faith Centre is producing the Religious Imaginations Educational Video Series.

This project will introduce major world religions and worldviews in an accessible, creative format designed for audiences aged 16 to adult.

While rooted at LSE, the ambition is to broaden this provision beyond students to reach wider publics and institutions.

London School of Economics Faith Centre: Religious Imaginations project

 

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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.