Maternity Paternity Project Missing Mothers Conference 2025 £300 strategic partnership award towards costs of hosting this event particularly in support of retention of the workforce.

Fair Education Alliance £5000 strategic partnership award to support their work in cultivating a well-informed, sensitive, thoughtful and inclusive next generation. The Alliance has four aims to use its collective voice, to increase collaboration, to increase diversity of leadership in education and to scale initiatives systematically. The Alliance aligns well with Culham St Gabriel’s mission, and the Trust’s priority areas relating to justice and equity.

NATRE Leadership Fund to enable teachers to attend meetings with high level officials, Ofsted, Ofqual and so on: £1,500

RE Council Chair Support to enable the chair to fulfil her role effectively £13,500 over three years (£4,500 per year beginning in Sept 2024 paid to the Chair’s employer to release her)

These are donations made to some of our partners for work which directly supports the Culham St Gabriel’s strategic objectives. Award holders have the same expectations placed upon them as grantees. The Trust welcomes conversations about its strategy with potential new partners. The following awards were made to:

The Religious Education Council of England and Wales to support core costs and operations over the next three years: £150,000 over three years beginning September 2024

RE Policy Unit to continue its campaigning advocacy and lobbying work: £100K over 3 years beginning September 2024.

Theos Think Tank to support their project ‘Where is religion and worldviews education?’ The primary aim of this project is to improve understanding of where religion and worldviews education takes place less formally (e.g. schools’ community programmes, libraries, families) by mapping these settings and subsequently producing a clear typology of such spaces (as well as a reproducible methodology for subsequent local mapping efforts). Awarded £33,125

NATRE Leadership Fund to enable teachers to attend meetings with high level officials, Ofsted, Ofqual and so on £1,500

RE Policy Unit to support PR work in relation to religion and worldviews in particular the work of the champions £5,000

Edge Hill University to support their summer school in 2024 £8,000

These are donations made to some of our partners for work which directly supports the Culham St Gabriel’s strategic objectives. Award holders have the same expectations placed upon them as grantees. The Trust welcomes conversations about its strategy with potential new partners. The following awards were made to:

University of Glasgow to undertake a systematic review of educational interventions in religious education £9,000

The Association of Religious Education Inspectors, Advisers and Consultants (AREIAC) to further the Young Ambassadors programme £28,200

Faith and Belief Forum to develop a programme to promote an education in religion and worldviews with parents £14,870

Edge Hill University to support their summer school £4,500

NATRE Leadership Fund to enable teachers to attend meetings with high level officials, Ofsted, Ofqual and so on: £1,000

RE Policy Unit to support the advocating of an education in religion and worldviews at party conferences £10,000

These are donations made to some of our partners for work which directly supports the Culham St Gabriel’s strategic objectives. Award holders have the same expectations placed upon them as grantees. The Trust welcomes conversations about its strategy with potential new partners. The following awards were made to:

RE Policy Unit – to continue its campaigning advocacy and lobbying work £100K over 3 years

Regional Hubs Project – for more information see here  £150K over 3 years

The Religious Education Council of England and Wales to develop its own strategy and operations over the next three years: £150,000 over three years (£50K 2021-22, £50K 2022-23, £50K 2023-24)

NATRE Chair Support to enable the chair to fulfil her role effectively £12,000 over three years (£4K per year beginning in April 2021 paid to NATRE/Chair’s school to release her)

RE Council Chair Support to enable the chair to fulfil her role effectively £12,000 over three years (£4K per year beginning in Sept 2021 paid to the Chair’s employer to release her)

Edgehill University have been awarded a grant for their project, ‘Teaching through Division: developing new directions for social and civic engagement in religion and worldviews education’. This project will collaborate with young people, teachers, community partners, and faith leaders to produce a set of pedagogical approaches and other facilitative strategies to guide discussions around issues of plurality and difference in the religion and worldviews classroom.
Grant awarded: £20,000

The Kuumba Imani Millenium Centre have been awarded a grant for their project, ‘L8 Interfaith Photovoice’. This project aims to improve religious literacy, strengthen interreligious relationships, and address stereotypes and bias through an art-based participatory action technique called photovoice. The project will promote productive community relations in a multicultural neighbourhood (L8, Liverpool) among parents and school pupils of different religions, traditions, and worldviews through workshops focusing on visual story-telling and intergenerational learning.
Grant awarded: £29,550

The Religion and Belief Literacy Partnership have been awarded a grant for ‘RELIT Standard Stage 2’, towards further development of a religious literacy standard for public sector organisations. The standard will offer a means of assessing the progress that public sector organisations are making with their literacy in faith and beliefs, helping to drive improvements in policy and delivery. Stage 2 of this project will focus on assessment design and testing the standard with a range of agencies and bodies.
Grant awarded: £30,000

The Religion Media Centre has been awarded a grant for ‘Creating Connections’, building on a successful series of events held across different UK cities. The award will fund two events taking place in Wales, bringing together journalists, local faith groups, teachers, councillors and academics, allowing of the sharing of knowledge and best practice, along with an opportunity for questions, answers and networking.
Grant awarded: £20,000

Bangor University have been awarded a grant for their project, ‘GCSE RE Success: Empowering Non-Specialist Teachers’. This project will provide targeted pedagogical support for 20 non-specialist teachers of GCSE Religious Studies in Wales by means of workshops, a collaborative community and a mentorship scheme. The project aims to improve student outcomes by ensuring that teachers, regardless of expertise, can deliver high-quality RE.
Grant awarded: £26,671

Brighton Girls GDST have been awarded a grant to develop a KS3 feminist religion and worldviews curriculum for UK girls’ schools. The project aims to foster critical thinking and ethical reasoning with a focus on feminist theology, the contributions of women in religious traditions, and the real-world issues most relevant to girls today, such as gender justice and leadership.
Grant awarded: £5,000

CYM have been awarded a grant to develop a research-informed framework for ethical religious dialogue in UK primary schools. The research will illuminate the challenges and opportunities surrounding religious dialogue and provide guidelines that aim to clarify ethical practices, promote consistency and parity, and boost teacher confidence. The project will foster collaboration between schools and parents, and help to guide curriculum adjustments for better religious dialogue.
Grant awarded: £30,000

The Faith and Belief Forum have been awarded a grant for their project ‘Faith in Encounter: Connecting schools & communities through faith & belief storytelling’. By embedding the lived experiences of diverse faiths and beliefs into school life through storytelling and encounter, the project aims to foster meaningful interfaith and belief dialogue, build social and emotional learning in students, and strengthen the role of schools as hubs of community cohesion in collaboration with local faith communities.
Grant awarded: £29,306

Queen’s University Belfast have been awarded a grant for a project entitled ‘RWE for All’. The project aims to create spaces for listening, dialogue and learning around issues related to religion and worldviews education in Northern Ireland, working with educators, parents and other stakeholders. The project will build capacity for collaborative working around the concept of ‘RWE for All’ through the development of alliances, networks and relationships.
Grant Awarded £20,037

Open University have been awarded a grant for a project entitled ‘The Docutube Method: Teacher training, policy and practice across the UK. The project aims to promote the adoption of the Docutube method in schools and wider community as a creative, reflective and critical approach to religion and worldviews education. The project will offer teacher training, scope the method’s use in new settings, and demonstrate how it can build better understanding between young people in divided communities.
Grant Awarded: £22,478

Lincoln Diocesan Board of Education have been awarded a grant for a project entitled ‘Empowering Voices, Exploring Worldviews’. This collaborative arts project will add to a suite of podcast resources that aims to improve young people’s knowledge of religious and non-religious worldviews in the UK, leading to greater understanding of perceived differences and increased respect.
This final resource will focus on the lived experience and cultural context of Buddhists in Cardiff, Wales.
Grant awarded: £5,000

The Religion and Belief Literacy Partnership have been awarded a grant for their project: The Public Sector Religion and Belief Literacy Standard (ReLit Standard). The aim of this project is to create and pilot a ReLit Standard which will drive improvements and focus on the literacy of public sector bodies on religion and worldviews. As well as being a positive step in itself, the project aims to improve the ways in which public policy relating to religions and worldviews is addressed.
Grant Awarded: £20,000

Catholic Bishop’s Conference and Bible Society have been awarded a grant for their project: Made in God’s Image, focussing on the development of resources to support teacher and pupil engagement with the exhibition. The project aims to increase biblical visual and racial literacy across England and Wales, leading to a deepening of interaction with the Bible. It aims to give voice to the experience of marginalised Christians, leading to greater inclusion, interaction and diversity within the Christian visual arts. Lastly, it seeks to provide resources for school pupils enabling increased understanding of the Middle Eastern context in which Jesus lived, balancing out a historic Western-centric view of Christianity. Details of the exhibition can be found here: https://gods-image.co.uk/
Grant Awarded: £5,000

Staffordshire SACRE have been awarded a grant for their project: Developing and defining strategic leadership in RE. This initiative develops and clarifies strategic leadership at governance level, so trustees and governors are equipped to seek assurances from senior school leaders that understanding and appreciation for the richness of human diversity, including through RE curricula, content, pedagogy and provision are at the heart of their organisation. The outcomes aim to bring about a development in the mindset for some, and a refinement for others in enabling them to lead organisations that provides an inclusive respectful and enriching educational experience for all stakeholders.
Grant Awarded: £6,510

The Scottish Teachers Association of Religious and Moral Education (STARME) have been awarded a grant for a Festival of Learning to showcase best practice in the subject enabling participants to enhance the quality of curriculum enactment and classroom pedagogy. In addition the initiative seeks to foster collaborations between practitioners and researchers to address the lack of empirical and classroom-relevant research in the subject.
Grant Awarded: £5,049

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.
Grant Awarded: £29,772

St Peter Saltley Trust and the University of Birmingham have been awarded a grant for their project RE:Connect RE Teacher Fellowship Programme Phase 2: National Roll-Out. In this project, the team want to see a generation of pupils and their teachers becoming confident, informed and generous agents in caring for the earth, through their learning about environment, climate and nature through their studies. Having successfully trialled this approach in 2020-22, they are now planning on expanding and building on the initial pilot.
Grant Awarded: £18,728

The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust has been 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.
Grant Awarded: £30,000

London South Bank University has been 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.
Grant Awarded £29,593

The London School of Economics Faith Centre has been 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.
Grant Awarded £29,968

The Jewish Museum London has been awarded a grant for further dissemination of their project Inclusive Judaism: Teacher Empowerment. The project aims to ensure every teacher has access to training and resources for teaching Inclusive Judaism and to see a change in classrooms from using stock images portraying Jewish people as one stereotype and instead empower teachers to use diverse images and language with their pupils.
Grant Awarded £13,000

University of Leeds have been awarded a grant for a project engaging local communities with teaching religion and worldviews. This project explores how to develop new methods of engagement between the religion and worldviews community and faith communities in Britain, by using the teaching of Sikhi as a case study.
Grant Awarded £14,000

Canterbury Christ Church University have been awarded a grant to understand, explain and develop ‘decolonising pedagogy in secondary school Religious Education lessons’. Literature on decolonising pedagogy in secondary schools exists, but research regarding RE is rare. Decolonisation in school is not only about curriculum content and presentation. In partnership with schoolteachers they seek to nurture inspired and decolonised teaching and learning about religion and worldviews.
Grant Awarded £28,387

The Religion Media Centre have been awarded a second grant to build on their highly successful Creating Connections project. This new award will bring this initiative to another five cities across the UK over the coming 12 months. You can read more about the project and its impact so far here.

Grant Awarded £25,000

The Rose Castle Foundation have been 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.

Awarded: £4,950

RE Today Services The research and planning phase for Understanding Islam (provisional title). This includes initial drafting of the resource, trials in schools and the setting up of a theological advisory group including scholars from a range of Muslim communities and academic institutions. £44,715 awarded.

Diocese of Bristol/South Gloucestershire Local Authority The ‘RE Hive’ project: peer to peer school improvement. To identify RE subject leaders and train them to provide peer to peer support. £9,525 awarded.