RELIGIOUS GRANTS





Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars Hall, St Giles, Oxford   
to support  Oxbridge's first service-learning scholarship targeted especially at prospective mature students from South America and Africa with track records of relevant work and/or a commitment to return to public service in their country of origin. Funding given for four Sir Halley Stewart Trust Scholarships over two years
£20,000 over two years

CODEC Research Centre, St John's College, Durham
to help support the salary of CODEC's Research Fellow in Preaching, Revd Kate Bruce. Research to "explore what shapes effective preaching with reference to theological presuppositions on the part of both preacher and congregation, denominational constraints and opportunities, age and gender, and practical use of new forms of communication"
£20,000 over two years

Oxford Theological Exchange Programme, Faculty of Theology, Oxford

Andrey Levitskiy, to undertake a cross-disciplinary and ecumenical research project aiming to make a substantial contribution to the development and promotion of religious education in Russian public schools through the revision of the Religious Education curriculum

£3,250 small grant

St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, London
to support the first two years of the 'Telling the Stories of Faith' Project which would comprise of 20 storytelling performances; 20 community events; 10 training workshops for up to 300 people The 'Telling the Stories of Faith' project aimed to demonstrate how traditional storytelling methods could provide new ways of building relationships between people of different religious beliefs and practices
£38,800 over two years


FODIP - The Forum for Discussion of Israel and Palestine
for further pilots of the 'Tough Option' Interfaith Dialogue Project in three more locations to encourage dialogue and education, where community relations were threatened by differences in perspectives regarding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and other related global problems, and to produce both a toolkit and provide training for local facilitators to work with their communities
£6,500 over one year

The Arthur Rank Centre, Warwickshire
to support a project to enable isolated rural churches to engage in mission and ministry without the local presence of an ordained person. The project will pioneer the "Local Collaborative Ministry" model in the UK and the grant will fund a pilot Enable Training Course. The Enabler may or may not be an ordained professional but their role will be to act as consultant - supporting, resourcing, training and equipping the local ministry teams
£3,768 small grant