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“The ocean is like God and raindrops are the religion. When they fall into the ocean they become one.”
Zoya Ahmed and Nurun Uddin
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.
The Campus Leadership programme is an interfaith programme for university students to create and host interfaith initiatives on their campuses and become interfaith ambassadors. Campus leaders rece...
The Nativity and Easter trails are long standing events in the Stirchley Community. The events are designed so that families from across our community can engage with the key stories around these C...
St Peter’s is a dynamic church in central Brighton. Our iconic Grade II* Listed building is a significant and much-loved local landmark in the city and is used for various community activitie...
Love Weoley Castle (in South Birmingham) seeks to undertake community driven projects. It gathers people together who live and/or work on the estate to share and create good news stories.&nbs...
God and the Big Bang has 10 years of experience engaging students with questions of science and faith. Initially, science-faith communicators used the ‘deficit’ model of communication,...
Facilitating Interfaith Activity is a project aimed at fostering meaningful dialogue and collaboration among diverse religious communities. This initiative seeks to create inclusive spaces where in...
Since 2007, Prayer Spaces in Schools has been creating safe, creative spaces for children and young people to reflect and pray. We are working with RE Today to produce lesson plans and other resour...
Threads through the Bible’ is an astonishing and inspiring exhibition of textile art, touring cathedrals from 2025. It consists of 44 huge silk panels re-imagining key parts of the Bibl...
Bringing together an expert team, passionate about supporting young people to develop a deep and confident faith, Unbelievable? Youth will produce engaging digital content and live events, answerin...
Creativity Counts is a seven-week course in which members take part in a variety of creative activities to develop their sense of self. The activities are multi-sensory interactions, to encourage c...
The Linking Lives over-60s activity group at Mossley Hill church has been running for about 6 years and our main aim is to bring together people who are isolated or lonely for friendship and compan...
Black Voices are extremely grateful to the Westhill Endowment for their support of our annual Doorstep Carnival event which, this year, was called Musical Garden. The carnival took place in our bea...
One Youth provides safe, youth-led spaces for 80+ young people aged 11 - 22 years each year across Brighton & Hove, including faith based youth activities (including contemplative sessions and...
Time to Grow
Since 1845, the Elizabeth Fry Charity has been offering accommodation and support to vulnerable women. Today, the Charity runs Elizabeth Fry House, a twenty-four bed Ministry of Justi...
Project Harmony
Muslim Women’s Council is a registered charity based in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Our vision is ‘for every woman, life with all its opportunities’, and our missio...
Keynsham Girls’ Brigade wanted to learn about Christmas around the World so they set about a research project which included listening to stories from families about their traditions and lear...
Let’s Go Time Travelling
Southwell Minster’s Time Travelling programme supports Religious Education teaching in Nottinghamshire. More than 1,500 primary school children visit the Minst...
Community Centenary Window
Francis of Assisi C of E Church in Bournville is approaching its 100th year anniversary in 2025 and one of the many ways in which hope to be celebrating this notable mil...
Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Community and Christ Church Bexleyheath
Since July 2022, the Project Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Community (UOAC) in collaboration with Anglican Christ Church...
Supporting Girls to Flourish
Flourish provides 1:1 and small group mentoring for girls (from all faiths and backgrounds) aged 10-18 in Warwickshire, who struggle with their self-esteem, mental hea...
