Completed Projects

The Healthy Eating Initiative Healthy eating is a fundamental pillar of long-term physical and mental wellbeing, yet access to nutritious food, culturally appropriate guidance, and practical education is not equal across all communities. In areas of high deprivation and cultural diversity, these challenges can be amplified by economic pressures, limited food availability, time constraints,

VJ Day 2025 The VJ Day 2025 community celebrations, funded by the National Lottery Awards for All and organised by Diversity House, marked the 80th anniversary of Victory over Japan (VJ) Day. The project aimed to commemorate the end of World War II in the Pacific, honour veterans and those who served, and bring

The Diversity House Centre for Innovation and Development Project The Diversity House Centre for Innovation and Development is a project that is supported by the UK Government for a total of six months, from November 2021 to June 2022, through the UK Community Renewal Funding (UKCRF). Delivering a comprehensive, all-encompassing intervention service to marginalised

BAME Legacies of Resilience As part of the research project, Migrantas collective will bring images of Black and Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) women’s experiences of COVID-19 to Kent and Medway‘s urban space. The participants feedback provided valuable information on the lived experiences of the women, alongside insights of how inner strength and power can

Creative Youth Project to Combat The Rise in Criminal Behaviour The Boyz-2-Men project is a crime intervention and prevention program, which is funded by Awards for All, the Lawson trust and Swale Borough Council. The program has been developed by Diversity House and is for young people between fourteen and twenty-one-year olds who are

Supporting Women and Girls (SWAG) The SWAG project builds on the former SWEW programme and existing work with disadvantaged women in Swale (Please see below). It aims to continue offering in-house support to many of the 9,097 women who enjoyed positive outcomes. The project seeks to work with a new beneficiary age group of

A brief History of Benin Kingdom (Nigeria) Many centuries ago, at the time when Benin was called Igodomingodo, that geographical area now known as Benin was the hub of a conglomeration of little towns that developed into most of the areas of modern Edo and Delta states. Throughout that period, Igodomingodo made steady progress especially

Diversity House has received £95,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for an exciting project, “Breaking The Myths: First World War and Africa”, in Sittingbourne and Maidstone area. World War One was a global conflict and has an important and lasting global legacy. However, many of the commemorations fail to acknowledge the contributions, experiences

Our Mission  Swale Women Empowering Women (SWEW) is a group of totally committed women of all ages eager to promote a positive image of women in Swale and Kent through information and knowledge sharing, equality and diversity, understanding, respect, reaching out, sharing support and advice and socialising. The Swale Women Empowering Women (SWEW) project

This was a year-long project which aimed to identify the issues which might exclude people from the Swale community.  These could include issues relating to health, housing, education and other aspects of community care. Ultimately the project hoped to find ways of addressing these issues, so as to achieve a sense of belonging for all