The Faith and Belief Forum

Have been awarded a grant for their project: North-West and West Midlands Parental Engagement Project. This project aims to enhance parental engagement in the teaching of religion and worldviews by actively involving parents with their children’s learning through modelling how faith-based enquiry, and developing skills for dialogue, can take place in the home environment. The project also seeks to engage parents across diverse socio-religious contexts, develop context specific resources and nurture stakeholder partnerships within each region.

The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

Was awarded a grant to develop engagement with minority faith communities to encourage faith-led and interfaith activities to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The project will include addressing identity-based prejudice and increasing understanding of the Holocaust and recent genocides, and the long-lasting effects of these traumas on communities today.

The London School of Economics Faith Centre

Was awarded a grant for their Religious Imaginations Educational Video Series to build deeper literacy of religious traditions as civilisational imaginations that shape contemporary geopolitics. They plan to produce a series of short films introducing the main world religions and worldviews in an imaginative accessible format, suitable for a 16 to adult audience. They aim to increase literacy across religious and non-religious worldviews in a way that enhances knowledge and expands imaginative empathy of other perspectives as well as highlighting the points of connection between world religions and contemporary political, cultural and social discourses in daily life and global affairs. They plan to broaden this cross-cultural religious literacy provision beyond LSE students and towards wider publics and institutions, both governmental and non-governmental.

London South Bank University
Were awarded a grant for their project Understanding the interplay: Education, lived worldviews & global citizenship. Working with three secondary schools, they will undertake a content analysis of school RE & Citizenship curricula and policies to understand the way in which citizenship is framed in relation to religion/worldview. Host a Lego Serious Play® workshop to explore young people’s conception of citizenship and worldview and the relationship between the two. Data from the content analysis, workshop and focus groups will be analysed and a process of abductive analysis will recontextualise student perceptions of citizenship in light of the framings of citizenship found in curricula. The project has multiple aims, but will primarily focus on strengthening articulation and understanding of ‘worldview’ within RE, R&W and citizenship education.

Religion Media Centre

Were awarded a second grant to build on their highly successful Creating Connections project. The award brought this initiative to another six cities across the UK over the course of 12 months.

You can read more about the project and its impact so far here. In addition, if you’d like to learn what the project has been up to in 2023, please see here.

Rose Castle Foundation

Were awarded a grant to enable children to be able to talk confidently about their beliefs and values in the company of those who have diverse worldviews and backgrounds through mutual critical engagement. The aims of the project are:

• To increase teachers’ subject knowledge about sacred texts and other significant text based carriers of meaning.
• To improve teachers’ understanding of the practice of Scriptural Reasoning through active personal participation.
• To help teachers to apply their knowledge of Scriptural Reasoning in a way that fits their own local school communities and contexts.
• To develop a mutually supportive community of learning.

Lincoln Diocesan Board of Education

Were awarded a grant for a project entitled Empowering Voices. This will support young people and their families in Lincolnshire, (where less than 3/100 people are BAME) and beyond to understand the significance of a worldviews approach to understanding what it means to live well together. The project aims to support people to engage with the rich tapestry of cultural and religious diversity in the UK so that they are less likely to discriminate in future.

To find out more about this project, please see our November resource of the month: ‘Empowering Voices’.