Social Action

- Are you looking for volunteering opportunities?
- Would you like to meet like minded people and do acts of kindness at the same time?

To join a friendly and informal group of volunteers
or to receive more info contact us.
 

Local Opportunities include:

A local old age home needs your help for Shabbos davening once a month. They require someone to lein, to lead davening and people to make up the minyan. If you are interested in this big mitzvah please contact Rabbi Brandeis.
 

Friends of the Sick - are looking for paid volunteers to act as carers for their patients who are incapacitated because of poor health or old age. If you have a few spare hours during the week  and would like to do a mitzvah as well as earn some money you could become a carer to  their Jewish patients  who are based all over NW London.  You will need to have a cheerful and pleasant personality, be caring and considerate, and willing to help others. They will pay £7 per hour +£2 towards transport costs per day per client. You will need to have a CRB check. For further details email info@friends-of-the-sick.org.uk or call 020 7435 0836.
 

Volunteers for GIFT - distributing food to poor families - contact Michele Barnet 07932 602 026.

There are a number of volunteering opportunities available at the JLE. For more details please contact us.
 

Other Links:

Jewish Voluntary Network (JVN) is a national charity connecting people across the community. They work across the voluntary, public and private sectors to raise the profile of volunteering within the Jewish community. Their highly developed website helps volunteers find suitable opportunities and telephone helpline offers a bespoke matching service for specific projects. Whether you choose to give one hour a week to a local organisation, one month contributing to a national campaign or go volunteering abroad, JVN matches volunteers with the right opportunities to fit their interests and skills. JVN are proud to have hundreds of charities in our network offering roles as varied as delivering meals, putting on pantomimes, making food parcels, writing websites as well as administration, hands on social welfare projects and fundraising. Their aims are to: 

• Bring volunteers and volunteering opportunities together
• Support charitable organisations who serve the Jewish community
• Develop corporate responsibility programmes in the business community
• Do something great today.... become a volunteer!

Camp Simcha - Improving the quality of life for children with cancer and other life thereatening illnesses

One Family - Rebuilding the shattered lives of Israel\'s Terror Victims

World Jewish Relief  - the leading UK Jewish International agency responding to the needs of Jewish communities at risk or in crisis outside the Uk and Israel.
 

Hazon Yeshaya - Soup Kitchens in Israel