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GIFT Supporter Update London· Manchester· Jerusalem Issue 2 Dear Friends, Vision, Mission & Strategy GIFT - make a difference GIFT Supporter Update London· Manchester· Jerusalem Issue 2 Dear Friends, Vision, Mission & Strategy What a difference a year makes! Much has changed since our last donor Our Vision: update. New initiatives have been launched and others have matured. We have developed the organisation’s infrastructure, built a new website A WORLD FULL OF GIVERS and given a facelift to the GIFT Giving Hub, marking an increase in the Where families and individuals educational activity taking place there. actively engage in acts of kindness in every area of their daily lives. GIFT’s first ever social action trip to the Ukraine took place in March with great success. Participants described it as ‘an incredible eye-opening trip’, ‘truly inspirational’ and ‘[enabling] us to give in a way that we hadn’t been able to before.’ Our Mission: YOUNG GIFT was launched in June, holding their first event which was an GIFT aims to educate and inspire overwhelming success. Young professionals from all walks of life discovered people to positively shift their behaviour a greater insight to giving whilst packing support bags and enjoying each and attitudes towards giving. other’s company. In recent months GIFT has embarked on developing our education curriculum Our Strategy: further, focusing on facilitating greater individual impact. We strongly believe GIFT inspires a culture of giving via dynamic that it is an absolute imperative to educate about giving today in order to education, impactful volunteering and respond to the serious challenges that the community will face in years to supporting those in need. come as a life-time of screen-time reduces the desire to sit up and take note of the plight of others and take action to help. With nearly 750 charities listed in the 2019 Jewish Charity Guide, GIFT are proud that the lessons we teach about giving can have a substantial impact on many of those charities. Our strategy is implemented through the three pillars of GIFT: GIFT has long demonstrated that innovative, creative and dynamic hands- on education, combined with participation in regular volunteering activity, can inculcate a life-long commitment to giving. Giving empowers and emboldens, develops confidence and self-worth, and Dynamic GIFT GIFT plants the seed of goodness that sustains and nourishes an entire community. and creative, galvanises, supports GIFT’s facilitates individuals At this time of year we ask you to help us continue our vital work. Please give education and and families to GIFT so we can teach others to give to so many more. team deliver coordinates in need with out-of-the an army of products Wishing you and your family Shana Tova… box formal volunteers, and services and informal impacting provided sessions to the lives of through the EDUCATING schools, thousands generosity SUPPORTING youth groups, in the of our synagogues, community. donors and universities VOLUNTEERING volunteers. Michelle Barnett Rabbi Sandor Milun and Founding Director Managing Director communities. 2018/19 Highlights GIFT in the News Rabbi Sandor Milun joined the team GIF T’s first ever social action trip - Michelle and R’Schiff at as GIF T’s new Managing Director Journey to Ukraine Her Majesty’s Charity Garden Party GIF T’s 3rd Gala Dinner Maccabi Fun Run Young GIF T’s First Event - at the Luton Hoo Walled Garden 100 GIF T Giving Heroes in action! Food packing and social BIGGEST EVER GIF T Thankathon - F IRST EVER Girls Summer Camp! A big ‘THANK YOU’ all round! Boys Summer Camp! Samson’s Story When I was 14 I participated in a series of sessions run by GIFT educators who came to JFS every week. As I looked around my home with all the trappings of my North West London life, I made a decision... Little did I know at the time, that decision was to change more than just my life. ‘Samson’s Sockathon’ was born... Making flyers and setting up collection points, raising awareness through social media campaigns and talking about the project wherever and to whomever I could, was just the tip of the iceberg. The campaign started to gain pace and my friends Eliana’s Story became inspired to join in, the piles of socks started to grow. As a regular volunteer helping out in family homes and care homes The result? for GIFT, I am committed to helping others. In 2018 I was visiting a care An incredible 3800 pairs of socks were collected and home and came across an elderly gentleman called Nathan. He donated to needy individuals in the Ukraine as well seemed lonely and almost completely disconnected. as closer to home in the UK. Once a week for a whole year I visited Nathan, reading to him, talking to him and sometimes just sitting, being present in his life. Our amazing effort benefited so many individuals that we would never meet and that could never thank us. In turned out that I was Nathan’s only regular visitor. Nathan died suddenly one day…no-one from the home bothered to contact me and it was an enormous shock when GIFT told me the sad news. I shed a tear for Nathan who I had built a connection and a friendship with, a man whom I gave my time to and who had helped me in more ways that he had realised. I became determined to use this profoundly meaningful experience to encourage others to volunteer. So I set up a GIFT volunteer recruitment drive at my school and I’m very proud that so many of my friends and also their friends have become GIFT volunteers. The families and individuals they support every week have literally changed lives and I am so grateful that I was given the opportunity to volunteer myself and to help others experience the joy of giving in this way. In the last 12 months, across... LONDON MANCHESTER JERUSALEM 27,724 48,051 2,600 Participations at Hours of Giving kosher chickens education sessions undertaken by GIFT donated* and given students and volunteers to GIFT families 1,004 Supermarket Challenge 6,939 31,200 participants Volunteer visits to GIFT Loaves of bread & families, care homes challahs rescued and hospitals and distributed 25,786 Acts of Giving 3,115 13,260 515 Number of volunteers Support packages Bnei Mitzvah attending packathons packed and delivered participants at GIFT by volunteers Giving Stations EDUCATING 2,034 SUPPORTING 100+ VOLUNTEERING 23,250 GIFT educates in Hours of tutoring Items of food over 100 schools donated by volunteers donated via and venues GIFT Boxes *with thanks to Kosher Deli & the London Board for Shechita GIFT - Partnering & collaborating with over 200 organisations... Fundraise For GIFT Schools Youth Movements Jewish Volunteer Network (JVN) Side by Side Aim Habonim BBYO Jewish Women’s Aid Sidney Corob House Aldenham Bnei Akiva JLE Sonesta Nursing Home We’d like to thank all those who fundraise for GIFT throughout the year. AMIT Bnos Jewpro Southgate Jewish Care Day KEF Centre Beis Chinuch Brownies (Belmont) Here are just some of the many initiatives that have been undertaken: Kenton Jewish Care South Hampstead Cheder Beis Soroh Schneirer Brownies (Hendon) Keren Shabbos Spread a Smile Beis Ya’akov High Brownies (Mill Hill) Kisharon St Bartholomew’s Hospital Beit Shvidler Primary Cubs (Edgware) Langdon Brady St Leonard’s Hospital Bet Sanhedria E.K. Pesach Camp • GIFT Box Ambassador Learn to Rescue St. Josephs Pastoral Centre Ezra Bnos Beis Yaakov Leket Start Your Day the Torah Way Broughton Jewish Primary FZY Leora’s Flower Gemach Stepney • Maccabi Fun Run Bury and Whitefield Primary IYIM -Young Israel London Jewish Family Centre Stubbs Farm Clore Tikva JLGB LSJS Sunridge Court Care Home Danescroft Nursery Rainbows (Mill Hill) Lubavitch Gan Yisrael Day Camp Susans House (Israel) • Purim Spieling / Bucket collecting Darchei Noam Scouts (16th Edgware) Maccabi Sydmar Lodge Care Home Dugma Sinai Magnolia Court Care Home Tachlit Etz Chaim Tafkid • Bake sales Evelina de Gonenim Tenufa Gilah Nursery The Federation of Jewish Services Haberdashers’ Boys The Princess Alexandra Home • Donating hair to Zichron Manachem and raising money for GIFT Haberdashers’ Girls The Royal Free Hospital Hasmonean Boys Tikun • Running 78 miles around London in a single day! Hasmonean Girls Tikva Orphanage -Odessa Hasmonean Primary Torah Anytime Henrietta Barnet Tribe • Car boot sales Hertsmere Jewish Primary UJIA Highgate Youth Union of Jewish Students HJPS University College London • GIFT your Simcha Immanuel Hospital Immanuel Prep Organisations Make a Soldier Smile Wellington Hospital Independent Jewish Day School All Aboard Malki foundation Whittington Hospital • Busking! JFS Association of Jewish Refugees Manchester Royal Infirmary World Jewish Relief Kerem Primary School Barnet Action Homeless Concern Meor Yad Eliezer Matnas Katamonim King David Liverpool High Barnet Hospital Yad Le’em Michael Levin Lone Soldier Yad Yisroel Orphanage (Pinsk) If you would like to undertake a fundraising challenge for GIFT, King David Liverpool Primary Beenstock Care Home Centre Yoni Jesner King David Manchester High Beis Rochel Mill Hill Cheder Zaka please email [email protected] King David Manchester Primary Belmont Farm Mitzvah Day UK Zichron Menachem King Solomon High School Board of Deputies Moscow Jewish Society Luria Bushey House Beaumont Care Synagogues Home N.N.L.S Drop Asylum and Mathilda Marks Kennedy Borehamwood United B’yachad Refugee Centre Mekor Chaim Belmont United Camp Simcha National Hospital for Neurology Menorah Foundation Brondesbury Park Central Middlesex Hospital and Neurosurgery Menorah Grammar Bushey United Chabad Belgravia Neve Michael Children’s Home Menorah Primary Central Square Minyan Chai Cancer Care
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