Home Education Grants

Small grants awards 2024/2025

Birmingham, West Midlands, £200
A project exploring the significance of religious objects through creative arts and crafts. Children will delve into the meanings behind items such as rosary beads, Diwali lanterns, and prayer rugs. The project also includes visits to Birmingham Cathedral, Singers Hill Synagogue, and Birmingham Central Mosque. The grant will support the purchase of books, craft supplies, and cover travel expenses.

Birmingham, West Midlands, £200
An immersive learning project designed to develop curiosity, respect, and critical thinking. Key activities include visiting local places of worship, undertaking a creative arts project, experiencing cultural cooking, and documenting the journey through a digital portfolio.

Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, £200
Exploring monotheistic and non-monotheistic religions, this project will include visiting places of worship and creating a multimedia presentation using recently developed IT skills. It aims to foster understanding of diversity, and the project will be shared with a local home ed group, SEN group and forest school.

Walsall, West Midlands, £200
The project will support an autism-aware exploration of religion and worldviews, incorporating creative scrapbooking, photography, and drawing, along with visits to places of worship. The project outcomes will be shared with local home education groups.

Worcester, Worcestershire, £170
“Roots of the Earth” will delve into the rich worldviews, traditions, and spiritual practices of indigenous cultures globally. The project will highlight how different indigenous communities connect with nature, ancestors, and spirituality, offering a unique perspective on how these connections shape their way of life.

Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, £100
This project aims to research the local repurposing of religious and community buildings, such as church buildings being used for purposes beyond worship and the transformation of a local pub into a mosque. The family will explore how community groups from diverse worldviews utilise different spaces in their area and what these spaces mean to different generations.

Staffordshire, £100
An inclusive project designed to explore religions through sensory experiences. Children will engage with food, music, religious artefacts, sounds, stories, scents (such as frankincense), artwork (like rangoli), and visits to places of worship.

Birmingham, West Midlands, £200
A project to create educational displays focused on different religious traditions, using highly visual and sensory materials to engage children with special educational needs.

Large grants awards 2024/25

Shrewsbury, Shropshire, £1,497
This year-long EYFS & KS1 Worldview programme for 24 children from 14 home-educating families will explore Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism through workshops, visits to places of worship, and festival-themed activities. The programme includes hands-on arts and crafts, storytelling, and independent learning support.

Rugby, Warwickshire, £489.26
The project will promote cultural understanding through stories and play. Families will gather weekly for 20 weeks at a local church hall, reading from “A Treasury of Traditional Tales,” discussing the stories, and engaging in play with international characters. This initiative will encourage parental interaction and children’s engagement with different countries and cultures.

Coventry, West Midlands, £740
The project will create a Faith Trail for home educators, facilitating access to local places of worship and faith communities. By establishing connections with worshipping communities from six major faiths, the project will design educational experiences and an online guide to promote interfaith understanding and combat prejudice.

Walsall, West Midlands, £530
A Muslim home education group will offer craft stations and food-related activities to learn about other faiths and cultures around the world, leading to greater respect for all religions. The grant will also cover materials and hire of the venue where the activities will take place.

Wolverhampton, West Midlands, £1,500
The project will hold regular sessions at a community centre over 24 weeks, exploring faith and arranging visits to various places of worship, including a synagogue, mandir, gurdwara, Buddhist temple, mosque, and church, allowing children to experience these environments firsthand.

Smethwick, West Midlands, £800
Through this project, a family will explore their heritage and worldview, deepening conversations about ancestry and perspectives. The project will involve design, research, integration, and sharing phases, culminating in a facilitated event for home education families to celebrate and share their own heritage.

Birmingham, West Midlands, £500
The production of a short educational video about how one home educating family explores and expresses their Christian worldview through music, stories, games, songs and celebrating community values. The video will be shared online to prompt other home educators to consider their own worldview.