Charities by Category: Children And Young Adults
020 8457 4444
Aish UK
London
NW4 3LP
For the past 25 years Aish UK has aimed to inspire a deeper connection to Judaism and to ensure a vibrant future for the Jewish people. Through diverse educational opportunities, immersive experiences and enduring relationships we share the wisdom and beauty of Jewish faith, practice and community – connecting with as many young Jews as we can, whatever their background, from when they are about to leave home until they build their own.
Today, Aish UK operates eight full time branches and provides educational opportunities at over eighteen schools, fifteen universities and six young professional hubs around the country, reaching and impacting thousands of young Jews each year. We also regularly distribute educational and video content through magazine publications,
07426 317 496
British Friends of ADI Israel
London
NW3 7PG
(Currently British Friends of Aleh. New charity number expected: please see our website for details).
ADI (Abililty. Diversion. Inclusion) is Israel’s most comprehensive provider of residential care for individuals with severe disabilities, the leader of the national rehabilitation movement, and an international advocate for disability inclusion, equity and access. While empowering hundreds of Israel’s most vulnerable citizens – children, adolescents and adults – to advance well beyond their initial prognoses and live happy, dignified, and meaningful lives, ADI is also establishing fully inclusive communities and laying the groundwork for the provision of the highest-level rehabilitative care for all. ADI offers a wide range of services and community engagement schemes around the world, and through experiential education programming, youth leadership and community engagement, ADI is 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 more than three decades of award-winning programmes, Shalva partners with various institutions in advocacy efforts and is a leader in inclusion activities.
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. https://www.facebook.com/ShalvaUK
(0)20 8209 3010
British Friends of Shuvu
(0)20 3092 4643
British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel
London
NW5 3PT
The British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel (BFAMI) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to raise funds to support educational programmes run by the Art Museums of Israel. These programmes share the rich artistic culture and history of Israel alongside prominent international contemporary art, with future generations across all strata of society. We focus our fund-raising endeavours to support educational programmes targeted at more vulnerable social groups such as children from deprived backgrounds, terminally ill children in hospitals and new immigrants suffering from negative social stigma to name a few. Together with these we support programmes reaching the gifted and talented, as well as Israeli soldiers.
(0)20 8349 5757
British Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
(0)20 3286 4224
British Friends of the Jaffa Institute
76 Gloucester Place
London
W1U 6HJ
Established in 1982, the Jaffa Institute is at the forefront of poverty alleviation in Israel. Our mission is to achieve a lasting solution to the poverty which has been entrenched within the communities of Jaffa, south Tel Aviv and Bat Yam for generations. In addition to providing educational programming designed to ensure that the children in our care graduate from high school and achieve a good standard of living as adults, our holistic approach also includes emergency and long-term care facilities for at-risk children, the provision of higher education scholarships to disadvantaged youths, musical enrichment programming, food distribution, vocational training courses and therapeutic care. Through over 30 different programmes, our services reach 4,000 Israelis on an annual basis.
(0)20 8371 1500
British Friends of the Rambam Medical Centre
(0)16 1721 4418
British Friends of Tiferet Shlomo Orphanage Jerusalem
Wellington Street East
Salford
M7 2AX
Tiferet Shlomo provides a safe and loving home for neglected, orphaned and homeless children who originate from all over the world. Life on the streets leaves many disadvantaged youngsters open to juvenile delinquency and crime. Tiferet Shlomo was established to help these youngsters by providing them with comfortable accommodation, as well as religious, secular and vocational education in a stable and happy environment. £100 will support a child for a month at the orphanage. Your donation now, or a bequest in your will, will help to give another Jewish child the chance to begin again with real hope for the future. Contact us now for a leaflet or more information about how you can help.
(0)20 8202 9297
Camp Simcha
221 Golders Green Road
London
NW11 9DQ
Camp Simcha is a lifeline to seriously ill Jewish children and their families throughout the UK, whatever their level of observance. We support children with over 50 different serious and life-threatening medical conditions, including cancer; serious genetic conditions, heart problems; degenerative muscular conditions and uncontrolled epilepsy; life-changing conditions including serious mental health conditions; neurofibromatosis, Type 1 Diabetes, severe Crohn’s disease and Colitis; as well as premature and sick babies.
Camp Simcha provides bespoke practical and therapeutic support, as well as activities designed to bring hope and joy at the darkest of times. We help the whole family: parents, the seriously ill child and siblings, who are often the forgotten sufferers when a child is ill.
020 8203 6066
Emunah
020 8445 6070
Evolve-Community
020 8205 2061
Federation of Jewish Relief Organisations
Kingsbury
NW9 8NL
FJRO was created in1919 and in the last ten years has developed numerous projects in Israel in cooperation with The Jaffa Institute (education for children from problematic backgrounds) and providing food and clothing for deprived families; the Forgotten People Fund (supporting the Ethiopian community with education and equipment), and sponsoring The Juludan Research Prize for the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology). It makes a number of other donations to charities in Israel and England, particularly for Norwood and the Jewish Community Secondary School. FJRO is supported by the Christadelphian Community for the benefit of ‘The Children of Israel’.
Please consider us when making a donation or writing your Will, so that we can continue to offer these essential services to Jewish families in the UK and Israel.
Additional contact number: 07930 846135
(0)16 1772 4800
Federation of Jewish Services, Manchester (The Fed)
(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 8211 1023
Friends of Rachashei Lev
(0)20 8457 4429
GIFT
London
NW4 3LP
Established in 2004, with bases in London, Manchester and Jerusalem, GIFT’s mission is to inspire and enable lifelong giving. Our schools’ programme sees a curriculum of impactful, thought provoking and practical sessions. Our B’nei Mitzvah giving sessions are fun, hands-on and educational, teaching giving at a crucial age.
Thousands of hours are given each year by GIFT’s volunteers, through the distribution of hundreds of weekly support packages to disadvantaged households. GIFT engages thousands of volunteers in myriad diverse opportunities from tutoring children struggling with school work; cleaning up our parks; offering practical support to families who face daily challenges, through home visits; prescription shopping, and befriending those elderly and living alone.
+972 256 30017
Hassadna Jerusalem Music Conservatory
P O Box 8119
Jerusalem
Hassadna Jerusalem Music Conservatory is one of Israel’s premier institutes of music education for over 550 children aged 1-18. Our vision and mission is to provide equal opportunity in music education to all children, regardless of race, religion or socio-economic status. We welcome and actively recruit children from disadvantaged backgrounds and children with special needs, in order to ensure both diversity and equal opportunity for all.
Hassadna provides individual instruction, music theory, chamber music, masterclasses, ensembles, orchestras, and opportunities to perform in concerts and festivals around the world. Our students continue to receive international acclaim, regularly winning first prizes in competitions in Israel and abroad. All of Hassadna’s students receive the highest quality education in a diverse, warm, and supportive environment.
(0)20 7222 6822
Holocaust Educational Trust
London
WC1N 3XX
The Holocaust Educational Trust is the leading authority on Holocaust education in the UK, educating people from every background, all over the country. It is our belief that the Holocaust must have a permanent place in our nation’s collective memory.
We work in schools, universities and in the community to raise awareness and understanding of the Holocaust, providing teacher training, an Outreach programme for schools, teaching aids and resource materials. Since 1999, our Lessons from Auschwitz Project has given over 41,000 post-16 students and teachers the opportunity to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Today, in an increasingly fragile world, our work is more vital than ever, empowering and equipping young people to stand up against antisemitism, hatred and prejudice in all its forms.
(+972) 3 6918403
I.D.F. Widows & Orphans Organisation
07980 451912
Israeli Dance Institute (IDI)
116 Ballards Lane
London
N3 2DN
The Israeli Dance Institute (IDI) is a UK educational charity which nurtures the flame of Jewish identity with Israel at its heart, through Israeli dance. We develop special programmes, train teachers and youth leaders, and run classes for new and experienced dancers. We work with teachers in some 30 schools working with over 4,000 children in the UK. We run a major summer course, Machol Europa, which brings teachers and enthusiasts from around the world. More than 18,000 children worldwide, in Jewish communities emerging or distressed, benefit from this programme. We also have four performing groups, from children to adults, which represent the community at communal and interfaith events.
020 7009 9649
Jerusalem Foundation
London
W1U 8HA
Founded by legendary Mayor Teddy Kollek over fifty years ago the Jerusalem Foundation’s mission is to shape a modern, unified and vibrant city by creating opportunities for all of Jerusalem’s population groups. Identifying and funding projects to aid and promote communal strength, arts and culture, future leadership and education, and heritage preservation. The Foundation builds philanthropic partnerships and matches donors to worthy projects, preserving the city’s past and laying the groundwork for a dynamic future.
The Jerusalem Foundation – Your share in Jerusalem.
(0)20 8446 8804
Jewish Child’s Day
Arcadia Avenue
London
N3 2JU
Jewish Child’s Day is a leading grant giving charity, which has been improving the lives of Jewish children in need worldwide for 75 years.
We use grant funding to support organisations who help us to ensure that no Jewish child should live in hardship, need, pain or suffering — anywhere.
Today, over 19,000 Jewish children each year rely on us to save them from deprivation, disadvantage, abuse and neglect; to nurture them and offer them a better future.
With your help, Jewish Child’s Day, will continue to support dozens of organisations providing medical, educational, therapeutic and humanitarian aid, respite care, protection, and poverty relief to children in need in the UK, Israel and worldwide!
(0)20 7100 5097
Jewish Children’s Holidays Fund
Enfield
EN1 9SH
For over 125 years we have worked closely with other Jewish organisations to provide summer holidays for needy and underprivileged Jewish children who would otherwise go without.
During two weeks full of fun and friendship at a residential or local holiday camp they can take part in activities that include outings, quizzes, sports and swimming, whilst they socialise with other children and possibly gain respite from difficult family or personal circumstances.
The camps are strictly Kosher and Shabbat observant. We include camps with children who have disabilities. Subsidies are available and no child is turned away for financial reasons.
Please help us to support the many Jewish children who desperately need and deserve a holiday that many of us take for granted.
020 8457 2123
Jewish Futures
London
NW4 3LP
Our considered response to the ever growing challenge of Jewish engagement is Jewish Futures: a singular strategic platform that creates and unites diverse educational organisations and initiatives, propelling each to ensure a future where every single Jew is meaningfully engaged.
To date and through our combined efforts, we continue to make a measurable and real impact on the shape of the Jewish community in the UK. Built upon decades of Jewish educational experience, Jewish Futures organizations represent a broad portfolio of dynamic and innovative initiatives and programmes. Each organization has a proud record of success in attracting, educating and inspiring young Jewish people.
A charitable investment in Jewish Futures is a palpable contribution to Jewish continuity that ensures bright Jewish futures.
(0)20 8989 8990
Jewish Lads’ and Girls’ Brigade
020 8458 4588
Jewish Learning Exchange
London
NW11 8HE
The Jewish Learning Exchange in the heart of Golders Green has now enthused the hearts and minds of thousands of young Jews for over 30 years! Our educational approach is to share a deeper meaning and greater relevance of Judaism in a way which creates a lasting impression in the everyday lives of our students. Our vision is to continue to inspire Young Jews across the UK through learning and education making Judaism relevant and meaningful in the 21st Century.
Our programmes in schools, on campus and with young professionals continue to make a meaningful difference to thousands of Jewish lives. Your support will ensure we can affect thousands more for many years to come!
020 8203 6311
Jewish Marriage Council
020 8457 2121
JRoots
London
NW4 3LP
In this generation, Jewish continuity, engagement and commitment cannot be taken for granted. Studies have shown that immersive Jewish educational experiences have enduring impact on the life choices of young people.
Jroots exists in order to facilitate impactful Jewish travel experiences to places of historic significance worldwide. Jroots has a track record of success in engendering a powerful sense of Jewish pride and communal responsibility amongst its students. The flagship Jroots Poland trip has been adopted by schools, student groups and communities nationwide as the gold standard of Jewish informal educational experiences. Over 70 groups each year participate on such life-changing journeys, often involving subsidies of over £500 per student.
0161 850 3330 / 07572 171264
JSense
020 3209 1160
Kisharon
333 Edgware Road
London
NW9 6TD
Kisharon transforms the lives of children and adults with a wide range of learning disabilities. It is the only Jewish organization providing education, supported living and a complement of adult services which include an employment programme, social enterprise opportunities and life skills courses. All of which are offered across the community.
At Kisharon we believe equality is everyone’s right, whichever path they take. We provide a structured yet warm and caring environment that ensures every individual can meet their potential to live as independently as possible whilst integrating within the wider community. Please contact us for further information on how you can help or to make a donation.
020 8951 3942
Langdon
Borehamwood
Herts.
WD6 3FG
Langdon empowers Jewish youth and adults with learning disabilities to live the independent lives they deserve. We do this by providing them with supported living, employment opportunities, education and a vibrant social life, all within a Jewish ethos.
Through Langdon’s supported living houses in London and Manchester, our members live in their own homes, with the appropriate level of support to meet individual needs. This enables them to gain independence in a safe and secure environment, living as a community within a community.
01132 218 848
Leeds Jewish Welfare Board
311 Stonegate Road
Leeds
LS17 6AZ
Leeds Jewish Welfare Board aims to support people to live independent, active and fulfilled lives.
At the Marjorie & Arnold Ziff Community Centre we offer a full timetable of activities, a fully supervised Kosher restaurant and café as well as conference and event spaces. You can also visit our charity shop based at Moortown Corner, LS17.
Registered Care & Community Support Services include physical and mental wellbeing support, one to one support, children’s groups, a domiciliary care service (Moorcare) and residential homes for people with learning disabilities.
(020) 8209 0526
Legadel
07444 417668
London Jewish Family Centre
London
NW11 0LR
London Jewish Family Centre – Strengthening the Family and the Community
LJFC is a grass roots, non-profit charity. We can help individuals and families with:
• Child and adult psychotherapy & counselling
• We offer contact facilities at the Centre (Supervised contact
is used when it has been determined by a court that a
child is at risk during contact with a parent or parents).
• Advocacy in schools and with the Police; Social services
intervention; Legal Advocacy; Support groups; Parenting
Classes; Classes for mums and toddlers.
We are involved with all parts of the community; and are relied on for confidentiality. We work in conjunction with all appropriate organisations, Jewish and non-Jewish, to achieve the best outcomes for our families.
The LJFC runs Early Years programmes – Well Baby Clinic with a Midwife, Nutrition and Lactation Specialists; Music and Movement groups; Art and Messy play; Baby Yoga.
The pandemic left many new mums isolated and concerned about their children’s development, with nowhere to go and ask. The Centre provides professionals to help mums grow in confidence as parents. It is a great social hub where Mums can make friends. The Centre includes a Coffee and Tea area with coffee-shop style seating.
Our Fundays and holiday activities for families with children of primary school
age are continuing, plus our Summer Day Camp.
(0)20 8457 2333
Maccabi GB
Shaftesbury Avenue,
London
HA3 0RD
Maccabi GB is Britain’s leading Anglo-Jewish sports, health and wellbeing charity and has flourished for over 80 years. Maccabi GB delivers over 250 projects, programmes and events for the community each year, ensuring these cater for all sections of the Community and that everyone has the opportunity to participate in sport, health and wellbeing activities along with informal education on Jewish identity, history and culture.
In this increasingly fragmented society, it is more important than ever that the Jewish Community can come together to express their Jewish identity without fear of judgement, make friends, learn valuable life skills, and feel a sense of belonging. Maccabi GB enables the Community to do all of those things and so much more.
Maccabi GB continues to deliver a range of international sporting events. We send a team annually to the JCC Maccabi Games in America and also larger delegations to the European Maccabi Games and the Pan-American Maccabi Games every four years. In between, and also every four years, we send over 450 athletes to Israel for the Maccabiah Games. The Jewish Olympics now plays host to over 10,000 Jewish athletes from 80 countries. We work with our affiliated clubs, sports leagues and the community by providing quality youth projects such as the Streetwise Leadership Programme and Stand Up! Education Against Discrimination.
(0)20 8441 6051
Maccabi London Brady Recreational Trust
020 3637 4245
Malki Foundation UK
020 3328 1636
Ohel Sarah UK
44a Albert Road
London
NW4 2SG
At Ohel Sarah, our mission is to enrich the quality of life for over 600 children and adults with cognitive and physical disabilities in Israel by providing comprehensive, ongoing support in education, employment and independent living.
Delivering care from age six until end of life, we provide a home for life. We aim to to help each person learn and develop life skills to enable them to become confident, independent and contributing members of society.
01442 234255
Save A Child’s Heart
London
NW3 9WJ
Save A Child’s Heart is an Israeli based international humanitarian charity providing lifesaving heart surgery and follow-up care for children from developing countries, regardless of race, religion, gender, nationality or financial status. To date we have carried out almost 6000 lifesaving surgeries on children from 62 countries at no cost to the patients; half the children are from the PA, Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. We also train medical personnel from developing countries in paediatric cardiology:135 to date.
Our current project is the construction of the International Paediatric Centre in Holon, Israel, which will allow us to double the surgeries and clinicians trained.
Winners of the UN Population Award 2018. Mending Hearts – Building Bridges
(0)20 8418 2100
Sidney Gold Community Trust Fund
Woodford Bridge Road
Ilford
Essex, 1G4 5LN
The Fund, established in honour of the late Dr I Sidney Gold, first President of the Redbridge Jewish Youth & Community Centre, promotes the Doris and Sidney Gold/RAGS Scholarships. The driving concerns of his life were young people, Israel and Jewish community service and appropriately these scholarships combine all three elements. Selected Jewish students in the Essex area are assisted in funding a pre-university year on an approved study and training course in Israel with the understanding that they have a commitment to future communal involvement. The scheme’s success over nearly two decades has been the number of the Scholars who have become deeply involved in community leadership. Extra funds will enable more worthy young people to be assisted.
020 8802 2362
Step by Step
(0)20 8209 9104
Tikva UK
(0)20 7424 6400
UJIA
+972 52 6633 766
UK Friends of Natal
020 8953 6474
UK Friends of Schneider Children’s Hospital
020 8343 5678
University Jewish Chaplaincy
(0)20 7319 9169
WIZO
(0)20 8802 8899
Yad Voezer
London
N16 5DH
Yad Voezer is a helping hand for people with learning disabilities and their families. It manages:
• Three Registered Residential Care Homes
• Three Supported Housing projects
• A Day Programme
• Clubs & leisure activities
• Family Support
• Soap Workshop
(0)20 8371 1580
Youth Aliyah Child Rescue
London
N3 3LF
In Israel today, there are over 400,000 children who are deemed ‘at risk’ and who do not have a family that can care for them adequately. Youth Aliyah Child Rescue is stepping up for vulnerable young people by providing a ladder of opportunity that enables them to climb from a life of poverty, neglect and violence, up towards a bright, successful future as contributing members of society.
Through our five youth villages and pioneering educational methodology, the ‘Village Way’, we enable thousands of at risk children – including immigrants and children of immigrants from Ethiopia, the former Soviet Union and around the world – to live in safety, heal from their traumatic pasts and make the climb from survival to leadership.