Charities by Category: Disabled
(0)20 9202 2323
AJEX Charitable Foundation
Harmony Way off Victoria Road, Hendon
London
NW4 2BZ
The AJEX Charitable Foundation is the only Jewish organization dedicated to caring for the welfare needs of Jewish ex-Servicemen and Women and their dependants. Wherever possible we aim to preserve the independence and dignity of our veterans at a time that many may be faced by increasing age-related issues or have financial problems. Grants are given to help with extra expenses at Passover, New Year and Chanukah whilst emergency and special grants are also available towards essential household repairs and adaptations as well as for health and mobility aids.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AJEX Twitter: https://twitter.com/@AJEX_UK
Please find out more by visiting http://www.ajex.org.uk
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(0)20 8458 2455
Beit Halochem UK
7 Golders Park Close
London
NW11 7QR
Beit Halochem UK is a registered charity which is responsible for raising funds for the four Beit Halochem Rehabilitation Centres in Israel. Beit Halochem is the only official organisation in Israel which looks after the 51,000 wounded IDF veterans and victims of terror, providing them with medical treatments including physiotherapy and hydrotherapy, sporting facilities such as wheelchair basketball, swimming, tennis, and maritime sports, as well as numerous creative and social activities designed specifically for the wounded veterans and their families. Our aim is to help all our members regain their strength and rebuild their broken bodies and souls.
07426 317 496
British Friends of ALEH
London
NW3 7PG
ALEH is Israel’s leading network of care for children and young adults with severe complex disabilities, and an international advocate for disability inclusion and equity. Committed to finding the abilities within every disability, ALEH provides more than 750 of Israel’s most vulnerable children with the highest-level medical and rehabilitative care in four residential facilities across the country, empowering them to advance well beyond their initial prognoses, reach their fullest potentials, and live happy, dignified and meaningful lives.
Through experiential education programming, youth leadership and community engagement, ALEH is leading the charge for disability inclusion, equity and access, and successfully changing societal attitudes towards individuals with disabilities, and building a better, more caring world.
(0)20 8387 1221
British Friends of Shalva
Theobald Street
Borehamwood, Herts.
WD6 4PJ
Shalva, the Israel Association for the Care and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities is dedicated to providing transformative care for individuals with disabilities, empowering their families and promoting social inclusion. Non-denominational.
Shalva’s programmes provide an all-encompassing range of services for thousands of individuals from infancy to adulthood. Additionally, Shalva supports and enables families to raise their children with disabilities within the family framework. Through nearly three decades of award-winning programmes, Shalva partners with various institutions in advocacy efforts to create a more inclusive society.
The Shalva National Centre’s advanced programmes and facilities create new frontiers in disability rehabilitation, research, and inclusion; defining new standards in the field and impacting the world beyond those in Shalva’s direct care.
020 8090 3455
British Friends of the Israel Guide Dog Centre for the Blind
Borehamwood, Herts.
London
WD6 9JE
Created in 1991, the Israel Guide Dog Centre for the Blind was established to train and supply guide dogs to an increasing number of blind Israelis who were unable to obtain a dog from an English-speaking centre abroad. Hundreds of partnerships have now been created at our centre that is located not far from Rishon L’Zion at Beit Oved. Each partnership costs some 15,000 for the life long care of the guide dog, training and aftercare. A legacy or gift will help provide another pair of eyes to the growing number of blind persons who ‘look’ to us to help restore their independence and dignity.
(0)20 8883 4716
Friends of Alyn
London
N2 OLB
ALYN Hospital, Israel’s ONLY comprehensive paediatric and adolescent rehabilitation centre, is recognized as one of the world’s leading specialists in the active and intensive rehabilitation of physically challenged children and young adults.
ALYN treats patients regardless of religious or ethnic background who suffer from a wide range of congenital and acquired conditions. More than 3,500 children, including some from abroad, are treated at ALYN Hospital every year. The ultimate aim of ALYN Hospital’s multidisciplinary staff is to rehabilitate the youngsters in its care and to return them to their families and to the community as quickly as possible having helped them achieve the highest possible levels of function, mobility and independence.
(0)20 8371 6611
Jewish Blind & Disabled (JBD)
Bittacy Hill, Mill Hill East
London
NW7 1GT
One in five people in the UK faces a diagnosis of disability and someone goes blind every hour, and Jewish Blind & Disabled is the only charity in the Jewish community dedicated to enabling people in this position, from the age of eighteen upwards, to live independently with the dignity and choice that are so easy for others to take for granted. This is not only through their specially designed developments of state-of-the-art mobility apartments with 24/7 support from their own resident house managers, but also through their new Independent Living Advisory Service for those living out in the wider community.
As an independent charity that does not receive any government funding, Jewish Blind & Disabled is very grateful for your support.
(0)20 8922 2222
Jewish Care
221 Golders Green Road
London
NW11 9DQ
Jewish Care is the largest health and social care charity for the Jewish community in London and the south-east. Our staff and volunteers touch the lives of over 10,000 people every week through a range of 70 services. In addition to our ten care homes, Jewish Care offers a range of services and facilities including dementia support, social work, family carers, day centres, independent living, support for holocaust survivors and more. Jewish Care aims to be the provider of choice for older people in the Jewish community and to support family members every step of the way in their journey with us.
Jewish Care – making later life better.
For details of Jewish Care services, contact Jewish Care’s Helpline on 020 8922 2222.
(0)20 7100 5097
Jewish Children’s Holidays Fund
Enfield
EN1 9SH
The Jewish Children’s Holidays Fund has been providing holidays for Jewish children from disadvantaged homes and for those with special needs for over one hundred years. Today it helps hundreds of children each year enjoy a holiday which would otherwise have been prevented by financial, social or health reasons. More children are enabled to participate in holidays through other Jewish organizations. These include making significant contributions towards holidays for children with special needs. Each holiday provided now costs in excess of £400 and our contributions cover all affiliations. The Fund receives no help from any statutory source and depends on bequests and donations to continue its work.
(0)20 8446 0502
Jewish Deaf Association
Woodside Park Road
London
N12 8RP
Most of us will eventually face the trauma of hearing loss – or already have a loved one who is.
With your help, we can:
· Be an ongoing support and inspiration to families – right from the devastating diagnosis of their baby’s deafness.
· Rescue older people living in care homes from isolation and loneliness and enable them to chat, join in activities and enjoy their final years
· Ensure vulnerable deaf and deafblind people are given lifelong care and support.
For over 65 years JDA has been a specialist community lifeline, enabling people living with deafness to cope with whatever challenges life brings. We receive no statutory funding and depend on legacies and donations to sustain our wide range of services for the Jewish community and beyond.
See JDA in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhu_-IKI814&feature=youtu.be
020 3637 4245
Malki Foundation UK
London
N20 9HR
Malki Foundation uniquely supports thousands of Israeli families who care at home for a child with severe disabilities. We provide them with the means to obtain paramedical therapy sessions (physical, occupational, speech, hydrotherapy, and horse-riding) when Israel’s government-mandated safety net runs out or when, for bureaucratic reasons that no parent can accept, the system says no.
For families in Israel’s peripheral communities where therapists are scarce, our supervised therapists travel directly to the child’s home. Malki Foundation also provides home-care equipment enabling families to keep a child with severe special needs at home rather than succumb to institutionalization for lack of realistic alternatives.
Founded in 2001 by parents who understand the need, we are passionate, efficient, and effective.
(0)20 8809 8809
Norwood
80-82 The Broadway
Stanmore
Middx, HA7 4HB
Norwood is the UK’s oldest Jewish charity, proudly supporting the community for nearly 225 years. We provide a lifeline for children and families in times of crisis and lifelong support for people with learning challenges.
We believe that every child deserves the best start in life, and that people with learning challenges have an equal right to enjoy independent, meaningful and inclusive adult lives.
Through a workforce of almost 2,500, made up of 950 staff and more than 1,500 volunteers, we deliver wide-ranging services within a warm and caring Jewish setting across London and the South East. These services cost £32m to deliver every year, £12m of which we must raise in voluntary donations.
Patron: Her Majesty The Queen.
(0)20 8371 1500
Operation Wheelchairs Committee
1 Opal Court, 120 Regents Park Road
London
N3 3HY
Since 1971, on a completely voluntary basis, the Committee has purchased medical equipment for many hospitals in Israel, including the Rambam Medical Centre in Haifa and the Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya. Wonderful hospitals offering the very best in medical care and expertise.
Commemorative plaques can be affixed to equipment and dedication ceremonies arranged.
Why not celebrate that special simcha by asking friends and family to dedicate their gifts for the purchase of life-saving medical equipment and also to help the disabled to regain their mobility, confidence in their lives and self esteem?
Bequests truly welcomed and all donations appreciated and acknowledged.