Charities by Category:
020 3823 4650
British Friends of United Hatzalah Israel
Lyttelton House, 2 Lyttelton Road,
London
N2 0EF
United Hatzalah is the largest independent, non-profit, Emergency Medical Service in Israel whose service is delivered solely by community-based, trained volunteer medics. It aims to plug the gap between when an emergency call is made and the time an ambulance arrives. Our average response time is just three minutes (90 seconds in some urban areas), providing the fastest emergency medical response across the country and, ultimately, resulting in many more lives being saved.
Our service is funded entirely through donations and is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. It is free to anyone that needs it, regardless of insurance status, religion or nationality.
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)20 8201 5900
Magen David Adom UK
2 Dollis Park
London
N3 1HF
Magen David Adom is Israel’s only national blood and medical emergency service. For nearly 75 years Magen David Adom UK has raised funds for medical equipment, ambulances, bloodmobiles and stations to benefit ALL Israel’s citizens – Arabs, Christians, Druze and Jews.
The organisation also collects and supplies 400,000 units of blood each year and is responsible for all Israel’s first aid and pre-hospital medical emergency training. As a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, MDA works internationally to share its support and expertise with those in need around the world, most recently in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Turkey.
MDA is a non-Governmental, not-for-profit organisation that depends on the generosity of supporters like you to save more lives.
07985 511475
MANNA – UK Branch of Meir Panim
2 Dollis Park
London
N3 1HF
As Israel’s premier social services organisation, Manna Meir Panim is fighting the poverty crisis in Israel.
Meir Panim operates a network of five Food Centres in the cities of Jerusalem, Or Akiva, Tiberias, Dimona and Tzfat, that offer hope to so many disadvantaged members of Israeli society: children, the newly unemployed, the elderly, Holocaust survivors and seriously struggling families, all from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds.
Our help and support are more than just food. Meir Panim’s array of programmes provide holistic support to those who need it most.
Patrons: Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Rabbi Joseph Dweck, Senior Rabbi, The Sephardi Community.
(0)20 8809 8809
Norwood
80-82 The Broadway
Stanmore
Middx, HA7 4HB
Norwood is the UK’s oldest Jewish charity providing a lifeline to children and families facing challenges due to learning difficulties, mental health or wellbeing issues and lifelong support for people of any age with learning disabilities or autism. We are dedicated to enabling them to live fulfilling and active lives, taking their rightful place as valued members of society.
Every year, Norwood transforms more than 2,500 lives. When we talk about “Taking on life together”, this is both a promise and a reality – Norwood’s support is for the whole of life and the whole of the family. The services we provide cost £32m to deliver each year, £12m of which is raised through voluntary donation.
Patron: Her Majesty The Queen.
(0)20 8455 4996 / 0161 507 5480
Paperweight Trust (The)
(0)20 8736 1250
World Jewish Relief
54 Crewys Road
London
NW2 2AD
World Jewish Relief is the UK Jewish community’s international humanitarian agency.
The expertise that we have developed over more than 80 years means that we tackle Jewish poverty, primarily in the Former Soviet Union, and reach beyond our community.
We create opportunities for those out of work or living with disability to become self-reliant; we meet the physical and emotional needs of older people; and we respond to the immediate and longer-term recovery needs of those affected by catastrophic disasters worldwide.
We work through trusted local partners, enabling individuals and communities to support themselves.
We do all of this as an expression of the Jewish ethos to: ‘Anticipate charity by preventing poverty’ (Maimonides).