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Kieran Hunt
Projects That Spark
Since 2004 Westhill has invested grants totalling more than £4.8 million mainly in the UK but with some international impact as well.Click here to view all of our projects or follow the categories tabs to the left of this page. These pages showcase the sort of projects in which Westhill has been privileged to invest. Our focus is primarily in religious education projects and faith-motivated activities that enable individuals to transform their lives and the life of their communities through dialogue and understanding.
Your project featured on our website
As part of our funding Westhill invites projects that it supports to use this section of our website to communicate and promote their work. As well as promotion this can be an ideal way to inspire people, to make links with other organisations, and to show what your project has achieved when you apply for future grant funding. All you need to do is send your information to us, when requested, and then direct people to your website which will have its own domain name, for example: www.westhillendowment.org/Yourprojectname.
We are piloting an accredited version of its established Change Makers: Developing Local Community Leaders programme, in order to provide a national qualification for its participants. In gaining a...
Interfaith Learning for All
Edinburgh Jewish Cultural Centre seeks to celebrate and share Judaism and Jewish culture with people of all faiths and none, Jews and non-Jews. Westhill Endowment has g...
For a Better Future – Learning from the Holocaust
2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Across the world events will be held to comm...
Birmingham Cathedral is pleased to commission an ambitious and beautiful New Nativity Set by the Birmingham artist Melanie Tomlinson.
The Nativity Set will be life sized, and draw upon the...
Empowering Futures
Bethel Youth Empowering Futures is a church-led initiative dedicated to fostering personal growth, leadership, and community engagement among young individuals. Developed by Bet...
Prayer Spaces in Schools is a creative initiative that provides safe, interactive spaces for children to explore prayer, faith, and reflection. Our team visits primary schools, setting up twelve th...
SparkFish is a local, collaborative Christian organisation that aims to inspire and encourage young people in faith, hope and love. SparkFish has grown to work with thirty-one schools, both Primary...
Caritas Aspire is a project operated by charity Caritas Salford which works alongside asylum seekers, refugees and other migrants in the pursuit of their career, education and entrepreneurial goals...
Supporting Waterways users.
Waterways Chaplaincy offers support to people in need on and beside rivers and canals across the country. 100 volunteer Chaplains across the country build relationships...
“Our Beating Heart” Project: St Mary’s Church, engaged a local artist to create three pieces of art containing images and words inspired by the stories shared by the local communi...
Community Arts for Everyone
Holy Nativity is classed as one of the most deprived parishes in the church of England. However, we do not accept that ‘economically deprived’ tells t...
EXPLORE! Science and RVE
Making cross-curriculum connections, Xplore!’s science and religion, values & ethics workshops for year 3&4, and year 5&6 learners provoke discussion on...
Edinburgh Easter Play – Behold the Man
The Edinburgh Easter Play has been produced on Easter Saturday each year since 2000 in West Princes Street Gardens and is a different version each year...
All Saints Church Dedworth is pleased to launch its new café, The Vine & Fig Tree Cafe, which is a welcoming community meeting place with an atmosphere that demonstrates the love and val...
Wooler URC is building a planned garden that would consist of a paved or bricked surface with a labyrinth design, three benches and a pergola for seating in wet weather, four planters with flowers...
IAmConfident provide support to vulnerable women of all ages who feel isolated and lost and struggle with their mental health and life setbacks. To achieve this, we run annual weekly sessions to he...
The Flourish Mental Health Project
Flourish is an 8-week program designed to support disadvantaged and vulnerable children (ages 8-16). The program teaches them how self-beliefs are formed and how...
The Create Community, in Bolton, is aimed at people who feel lonely or isolated, adults with learning difficulties/disabilities, adults who recognise their mental health isn’t what they want...
The Barnabus Music Therapy Sessions: At Barnabus we believe in having a holistic approach in helping people recover homelessness. It is incredibly important that our guests reconnect with creativit...
Lifeline Harrogate set up a new ‘Peer Support Group’ towards the end of 2022, based on a model from a similar charity to ours based in the north-west of England. This group allows resid...
