Revenue grants, generally between £500 and £20,000, are available to registered charities and not-for-profit organisations, including churches, cathedrals, hospices and educational institutions, for educational projects that have underlying Christian values.
The Westhill Endowment Trust is known for financially support educational projects with strong underlying Christian values that change people’s lives, foster empathy between communities and build bridges between people of diverse backgrounds and cultures.
The Trust’s primary charitable objects are:
- The promotion of education in a manner consistent with the principles of the Christian religion and the tradition of the historic Free Churches, and
- The promotion of dialogue and educational interchange between the Christian Church and persons from other faiths.
In recent years, the focus of the Trust’s work has been to support religious education (RE), improved community cohesion and through the loan of artworks.
The Trust funds a diverse range of projects. Projects incorporating formal and informal religious education, interfaith activity, the creative and performing arts, and those that help facilitate social cohesion are regularly supported.
Westhill awards grants to organisations delivering projects that either enhance religious understanding, including education and religious literacy or enable people to transform their lives and their communities.
Westhill has welcomed projects that use the arts and bring together people from different faiths and people of no faith.
Westhill Endowment generally provides revenue grants of between £500 and £20,000. Larger grants are occasionally made for projects running for a period of 24 months.
The trustees have a reasonable expectation that Westhill has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.
The application process is as follows:
For the Winter 2026/2027 Grants Round:
- An initial enquiry (Expression of Interest) should be made before 12 noon (midday) on Monday 7 December 2026.
- For applicants invited to apply to the Full Application stage, the deadline for submission of full applications will is12 noon (midday) on Monday 21 December 2026. Results will be announced at the end of February/start of March 2027.
For the Spring 2027 Grants Round:
- An initial enquiry (Expression of Interest) should be made before 12 noon (midday) on Monday 19 April 2027.
- For applicants invited to the Full Application stage, the deadline for submissions is 12 noon (midday) on Tuesday 5 May 2027. Results will be announced in late June/early July 2027.
Please note that the application windows will close early if 100 submissions are reached before the deadline. Early application is therefore advised.
Further information, guidance and an Expression of Interest form (go to the heading "Make a Funding Enquiry) is available on the Trust’s website.