Tag: Jewish Care
Jewish Care Closes Southend Care Home
Jewish Care today announced the closure of Raymond House, its 38 bed care home in Southend. In 2010 Jewish Care commissioned Goldstone Perl and Bernice Hardie to conduct market research amongst Southend’s Jewish community. The market research, which consisted of a number of focus groups as well as questionnaires, was aimed at any adults age [...]
Jewish Care Volunteer Carrys The Olympic Torch
Simon Davies, a 36 year old fundraising volunteer for Jewish Care has been selected as a torchbearer for the Olympics. He was born with Athetoid Cerebral Palsy and he is confined to a wheelchair and communicates through either a voice synthesiser or a computer. He lives in Rela Goldhill Lodge in Golders Green one of [...]
Jewish Care Display Winners Work
Three talented artists scooped the prizes at the Jack Goldhill Painting Prize showcase and prize giving event. Michael Goldhill, instigator of the painting prize, made the presentations to the winners at an event held at the Zabludowicz Collection in Chalk Farm North London. Ben Walker won first prize for his work “To be given your [...]
Rela Goldhill Lodge Residents Make Soup & Sandwiches For Homeless
In collaboration with Tikun UK, residents, staff and volunteers at Jewish Care’s Rela Goldhill Lodge in Golders Green got together, as part of the Supportive Communities initiative, to make soup and sandwiches which were then distributed by the Simon Community to the homeless in central London. Matthew Kayne, a Rela Goldhill resident said: “I enjoyed [...]
Jewish Care Joins Care in Crisis Campaign
Residents of Jewish Care marched with over 1,000 people in the Crisis in Care lobby at the Houses of Parliament to voice their concerns on older people’s social care. Local resident of Rubens House, Finchley, Sadie Simmons (82) said, “Jewish Care provides me with great support but I am very concerned about what happens to [...]
Flower Power at Jewish Care
Jewish Care celebrated Tu B’Shvat with a floristry workshop at the charity’s Michael Sobell Centre in Golders Green on Wednesday 8th February. The green-fingered enthusiasts created mixed-media arrangements consisting of seasonal fruits, berries and white ‘Avalanche’ roses. Tu B’Shvat is a festive day in the calendar of the Jewish People. It is called the New [...]
JEWISH CARE’S ADULT SOCIAL WORK TEAM WINS NATIONAL AWARD
The Jewish Care adult social work team has won silver award for the Adult Team of the Year category in the annual National Social Worker of the Year Awards 2011. The team was presented with their award at a ceremony at the House of Lords on Friday 16th December which was attended by [...]
Jewish Care Volunteer Receives Top Award
John Stanton, a Jewish Care volunteer at Rubens house in Finchley was presented with an award at the Health and Social Care Volunteering Awards ceremony, hosted by Age UK, which were held in central London on Monday 12th December. The event was part of a one-off awards scheme made possible through funding [...]
Affected By Mental Health?
‘Park Bench’, a short film written and produced by a group of Jewish Care’s mental health educators along with Magpie Motion Productions was launched at the Martin B. Cohen Centre for Wellbeing in Edgware on Monday 10th October on World Mental Health Day. The red carpet event was attended by 80 [...]
Jewish Care’s Nanas Knit For Eastern Europe
Jewish Care, the largest health and social care charity for the Jewish community, prepared for Mitzvah Day by knitting squares for World Jewish Relief’s (WJR) Pomegranate Scheme. Service users, volunteers and staff knitted over one hundred squares in a multitude of colours and designs. The unique creations will be sent to WJR [...]
Jewish Care Offers Support By The Sea
A dynamic group of Bournemouth-based volunteers has been offering support to their local Jewish community. The tight-knit team includes Pat Cravitz, Josie Lipsitz, Marcia Goodman and Liz Harris has been helping people access local social services, offering advice regarding obtaining funding for services as well as giving emotional support to vulnerable members [...]
Jewish Care Launches The Jack Goldhill Painting Prize
Jewish Care has launched the Jack Goldhill Painting Prize. The first prize is worth £5,000, the competition is open to amateur and professional artists of any nationality, aged 18 or over, presently living or working in the UK. Artists may submit up to three pieces of their work. The prizes have been donated by [...]
Jewish Care’s dementia conference asks “Whose life is it anyway?”
Jewish Care held a dementia conference on Friday 22nd July, attended by staff and volunteers. Held at Jewish Care’s Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Campus in Golders Green, the conference, entitled “Whose life is it anyway?” explored the issues around consent, choice and control and the daily challenges faced by anyone caring for [...]
Baroness Warsi Visits Jewish Care
Baroness Warsi, Co-chair of the Conservative party visits Jewish Care’s Brenner Community Centre at Raine House Cabinet Minster and co-chair of the Conservative party, Baroness Warsi, visited Jewish Care’s Brenner Community Centre at Raine House in Stamford Hill on Wednesday 20th July. Impressed with the range and diversity of culturally sensitive services on [...]
Boris Johnson Opens Jewish Care’s Campus
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, cites Jewish Care’s Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Campus as ‘the benchmark for the future’ Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, officially opened Jewish Care’s Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Campus in Golders Green, on Friday 15th July, in front of a packed audience of 250 donors to the project, as well as [...]
Jewish Care Honours Its Volunteers’ Achievements
Stephen Zimmerman, the outgoing chairman of Jewish Care welcomed the guests to the first volunteers’ award ceremony to be held at the Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Care Campus on Thursday 7th July. Acknowledging the immense value of the work done by volunteers, Mr Zimmerman opened the evening’s events saying: “The [...]
‘A Celebration of Success for Jewish Care’
Jewish Care is the largest health and social care charity for the UK’s Jewish community, caring directly for over 7,000 people every week; with 70 centres and specialist services throughout London and the South-East. The organisation provides a wide range of services for people who are elderly, mentally ill, physically disabled, visually [...]
Jewish Care invite Nick Clegg to Support Their Work.
On Tuesday 1st February, over 270 business professionals embarked on the Mansion House, London, to not only listen to Nick Clegg M.P. but to also have the chance to ask him questions directly at the first Jewish Care Business Breakfast Group meeting of 2011. A galaxy of distinguished guests was welcomed by the Rt Hon [...]
