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Beatty celebrates 103
15 Jul 2020Beatrice (Beatty) Orwell celebrated her 103rd birthday last week, receiving dozens of birthday wishes from all that know her, with cards, gifts and phone calls.
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Bringing cakes to the community for the 8th Great Jewish Bake Day
09 Jul 2020Whilst the community couldn’t come to Jewish Care community centres for this year’s 8th Great Jewish Bake Day today, Jewish Care volunteers went out to them.
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Jewish Care raises over £8,000 at very first online Business Breakfast
07 Jul 2020More than 100 people joined a Jewish Care’s first online Business Breakfast, raising over £8,000 for the charity’s core services.
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Zacks Go Purple on their 300 mile challenge for Jewish Care
18 Jun 2020Twenty-three year old Natasha Zack and her mum Helen, have set themselves a goal of walking 300 miles between them to raise money for Jewish Care in June. They are also taking on 30 second challenges to do on their walks and are filming them along the way
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#GoPurple for Jewish Care
09 Jun 2020In these challenging times, we all need a little bit of fun so Jewish Care is inviting the whole community to go purple for a week to show support for Jewish Care between 14-21 June.
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Time to Care for our Unpaid Carers
08 Jun 20208 – 14 June is Carers Week and 4.5 million additional people are caring for older, disabled or seriously ill relatives or friends since the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Jewish Care CEO in ThinkIn on care crisis with host James Harding
19 May 2020Jewish Care’s CEO, Daniel Carmel-Brown, took part in a ‘ThinkIn’ for Tortoise Media to discuss the question “How do we fix the crisis in our care homes?”.
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Kindness on Mental Health Awareness Week at Sidney Corob House
19 May 2020Residents at Jewish Care’s Sidney Corob House for people with mental health needs are focussing on the theme of kindness as part of Mental Health Awareness Week this week, 18-24 May.
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JLGB to raise money for Jewish Care in Virtual Community Fun Run
12 May 2020In an unprecedented move, JLGB has pledged to raise money for Jewish Care in this year’s Maccabi GB’s Community Fun Run online. As part of their Acts of Kindness initiative, they will share proceeds from the virtual JLGB 125 Fun Run on Sunday 24 May.
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Keeping Older People Active during the pandemic
11 May 2020Jewish Care has created an online resource to provide fun and engaging virtual activities for older people at home whilst on lockdown.
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Dying Matters Week 2020
11 May 2020Paula Plaskow is a social worker with over 20 years’ experience and Jewish Care’s End of Life Care Team Manager. This article is written in connection with Dying Matters Awareness Week which runs from 11 to 17 May 2020.
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Jewish Care CEO zooms in behind the scenes with South Hampstead Shul
10 May 2020Members of the South Hampstead Synagogue community joined a Zoom meeting to hear from Jewish Care Chief Executive, Daniel Carmel-Brown, who shared his experiences during the Covid-19 crisis from Jewish Care’s perspective.
