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Celebrating with the Jewish Care Family Inside This Issue: Simchas at Jewish Care 1 Cover 74.2_Layout 1 20/11/2015 10:54 Page 1 ISSUE 74 | WINTER 2015/5776 CELEBRATING WITH THE JEWISH CARE FAMILY INSIDE THIS ISSUE: SIMCHAS AT JEWISH CARE FOR FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS OF 2 Contents.2_02 Contents.2 20/11/2015 11:47 Page 2 Contents News and features Editorial enquiries: 020 8922 2828 Shabbat at Jewish Care ............................................................................................................................................3 Email: [email protected] News in Photos ............................................................................................................................................4 Design & production by Mark Wingrove, Jewish Care’s in-house Leading the Way Investing in future communal leaders....................................8 design studio to keep costs to a minimum Ask us a question Questions to our helpline..................................................................10 Cover photo by Justin Grainge Southend Aid Society 60 years of giving........................................................................................11 Otto Schiff Home resident Alan Health Insight Pull Out Articles from leading health practitioners ......................13 celebrates Chanukah in the home Legacies A special thank you ..................................................................................17 Contributing writers Simon Morris, Kezia Racher, Keeping it in the family Simchas in Jewish Care resources ............................................18 Simon Robinson, Lisa Wimborne Get committee’d News from Jewish Care fundraising committees ....20 Contributing photographers There’s no place like home Homecare services ....................................................................................22 Debra Binder, Natalie Cohen, Blake Ezra Photography, Final word Our biggest challenge to date? ..................................................24 Naomi Creeger, Justin Grainge, Paul Lang, Nicole Silver, Yakir Zur The guide Printed by Media Group Special thanks to everyone who helped What’s on Forthcoming events ................................................................................21 with this issue. The views expressed in Services directory A guide to Jewish Care’s services..............................................26 Careline are not necessarily those of Jewish Care or its employees. No article or photo published in Careline can be reproduced in part or in full, electronically or by any other means of dissemination, without the prior permission of Jewish Care. Telephone: 020 8922 2000 Email: [email protected] www.jewishcare.org © Jewish Care 2015 Charity Registration Number 802559. Jewish Care – a company limited by guarantee. Registered in England Number 2447900. Registered address: Jewish Care, Amélie House, Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Campus, 221 Golders Green Road, London NW11 9DQ Kathryn is just one of the trained advisers We all need a little help sometimes, and who will give you the help you need that’s where Jewish Care’s Helpline is your first port of call. Our expert trained advisers answer 15,000 enquiries every year. So whatever you need, we can help you find it – in complete confidence. We can tell you about our services: care homes, care in your own home, community centres, support for people living with dementia and for their families and carers’. And if we can’t help you ourselves, we’ll help you find someone who can. So if you need advice with a human face, please remember Jewish Care. REMEMBER OUR HELPLINE. WE’RE HERE FOR YOU. 020 8922 2222 IF YOU NEED GUIDANCE, SUPPORT JEWISHCARE.ORG OR INFORMATION WITH A HUMAN FACE NEWS Shabbat at Jewish Care An initiative to encourage the community to do something different on Shabbat Left Chicken soup and handshakes for King Solomon student and Max Leviticus, member of Jewish Care's Stepney Jewish Community Centre very Shabbat is special for us at Jewish Shabbat at Jewish Care we are organising Inset Havdallah party at Care, it is one example of what makes another weekend of activities that will take Vi & John Rubens House us different from any other care place soon. E organisation. We have Shabbat meals, If you are interested in taking part in this synagogue services and celebrations in our forthcoming weekend activity or regular Below JCOSS pupil Mathilda resources every week of the year, many of Shabbat activities in Jewish Care resources Stone making challa with which are run by our fantastic army of contact Jo Hyams in Jewish Care’s volunteer Betty Spiers, a resident at volunteers. team by emailing [email protected] or call Jewish Care's Kun Mor and Our doors are always open to members of 020 8922 2403. George Kiss Home the community to join us for Shabbat. Having people visiting, talking to clients, helping serve meals, run services and activities is appreciated by clients across our services – it helps them feel connected to the wider com- munity. So this year to coincide with Shabbat UK we encouraged school children and individuals looking to do something different on Shabbat to come and visit us at Jewish Care. Residents and members at Jewish Care homes and community centres from London to Brighton, were joined by local school children and volunteers from across the community to experience Shabbat at Jewish Care. We welcome the community’s involvement in making every Shabbat special at Jewish Care. Following the success of our recent CARELINE 3 4-7 Around the world of JC.2_Layout 1 20/11/2015 11:51 Page 4 AROUND THE WORLD OF JEWISH CARE South London Community Support Service volunteer, Ruth Rolle presented with a highly commended award in the Jewish Chronicle People’s Choice category at the Wohl JVN Volunteering Awards. Jewish Care’s 38th Pro Am Golf Day at the Grove raised over £35,000 for Jewish Care’s Rela Goldhill Lodge. Residents from nine Jewish Care homes enjoyed a Director of Fundraising and Marketing, Daniel day of colour, music, art and nature when an enormous Carmel-Brown (2nd from right) joined seven other Colourscape walk-in sculpture was installed in the runners who took part in the 10km Run to the Beat at gardens of The Princess Alexandra Home. Wembley Stadium to raise vital funds for Jewish Care. Young Jewish Care supporters were accompanied by Holocaust Survivor Centre member Renee Salt on a recent visit to Poland. Lauren Shahmoon (right) commented “visiting the camps in which Renee had both suffered and survived, in her company, was an indescribable and emotional experience”. Jon Rouse, the Director General for Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships from the Department of Health with Selig Court resident on a recent visit to Jewish Care. The Mayor of Camden, Councillor Larraine Revah joined Rabbi Menachem Junik, residents, staff and volunteers of Sidney Corob House in Rosh Hashanah celebrations. 4 Careline 4-7 Around the world of JC.2_Layout 1 20/11/2015 11:52 Page 5 THE WORLD OF JEWISH CARE Property industry leaders helped 150 young property professionals at CBRE to raise a record-breaking £17,500 for Jewish Care at the annual YJC Property Dinner. Pupils from the Independent Jewish Day School visit Jewish Care’s Clore Manor Home to celebrate Rosh Hashanah together. Long standing Jewish Care volunteer Barbara Waterman was presented, by her local MP Matthew Offord, with the Prime Minister’s Point of Light Award in recognition of her outstanding services to volunteering. The ACOL Bridge Club in West Hampstead hosted the second Jewish Care Bridge Queens raising an impressive £15,500 for Jewish Care. Betty Loftus celebrated her 99th birthday at the newly redeveloped Betty and Asher Loftus Centre in Friern Barnet. Friends and family including Betty’s three sons, daughters in law, 10 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren enjoyed a cream tea followed by ‘Flake 99’s’ from Uncle Doovy’s Ice Cream Van that visited the home for this special occasion. CARELINE 5 4-7 Around the world of JC.2_Layout 1 20/11/2015 11:52 Page 6 Julia Gilbert, celebrated her 107th birthday with her family, residents, volunteers and staff at Jewish Care’s Vi & John Rubens House, where she has been living for the past three years. Judy Dewinter, the Chairman of Myeloma UK, being presented by Tom Betts from Topland Group, with the prestigious Topland Business Luncheon Talented piano player Tali Quint marked her Bat Award in memory of Philip Greenwold in recognition Mitzvah with a sponsored musical tour of six Jewish of her commitment and determination to support Care homes, entertaining more than 100 Jewish people like her who are living with myeloma, an Care residents across the community. incurable cancer. Jewish Care paid tribute to its unsung heroes at the annual volunteers’ awards event at the Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Campus. Comedian Ivor Baddiel presented awards to volunteers across the organisation. 6 CarelineCARELINE 6 4-7 Around the world of JC.2_Layout 1 20/11/2015 11:52 Page 7 THE WORLD OF JEWISH CARE 600 Young Jewish Care partygoers raised more than £15,000 at Jewish Care’s Hallorave, Jewish Care’s most spectacular Halloween party yet organised by The Rock Committee and Young Jewish Care. Stepney Jewish Community Centre members enjoyed a Frank Sinatra tribute afternoon to celebrate what would’ve been his 100th birthday. Residents from six Jewish Care homes attended the Remembrance Sunday service at the War Memorial in Edgware. Ex-serviceman Morris Kaye, 94, a resident of Jewish Care’s Rosetrees home, laid a wreath on behalf of Jewish Care in memory of the contribution of those who served
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