Completed Projects

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

The project aimed to increase awareness of sexually transmitted infections including HIV among African communities in Swale, Canterbury, Ashford and Shepway. The aspiration for the project was that African and Caribbean people at risk of HIV infection, including people of undiagnosed HIV infection, were offered a comprehensive range of information opportunities designed to increase their

One of the methods deployed by Diversity House to engage its community is organising public lectures on topical issues of the day. In this regard, a public lecture was held at the Isle of Sheppey Academy. The lecture was planned in association with the Isle of Sheppey academy and on the very current and crucial

LAPCEL Palliative Care & End of Life Practises This project is funded by Health Education Kent , Surrey and Sussex and led by Drs David Smith and Carlos  Moreno-Leguizamon with support of Stephanie Grohmann of the Faculty of Health and Education at the University of Greenwich in collaboration with Diversity House and the Medway

The project started in December 2009. It aimed to raise awareness of learning disabilities in a de-stigmatising way. Its title, “Once upon a Down Syndrome” was deliberate to capture the attention of the general population, in particular, those from sub Saharan region of Nigeria (resident in Swale) whose culture and tradition portrays disability as a

Diversity House carries out prison-based outreaches in Her Majesty’s Prison Service such as in Longport Prison, East Sutton Park, etc. Similar outreaches were also carries out at HMP Stanford Hill and Emley at the Sheppey Cluster in 2012; SERCO prisons at Thameside; Young Offenders Institute Faltham and Cookham Wood Rochester. In all, 209 Prisoners were

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

Diversity House receives a grant from Big Lottery Funding Diversity House will be celebrating interculturality to promote community integration, inclusion and cohesion within Westlands Primary School and the environ. After successfully applying to the Big Lottery Fund’s Celebrateprogramme, ‘Westlands Diversity Project’ has been awarded £7,810, which will be used to organise a community integration event