Mitzvah day

Maid Marian’s Multi-Faith Mitzvah

November 11, 2008

Children from Nottingham's Jewish, Muslim and Sikh communities will be performing a concert together at Nottingham's Orthodox Synagogue reflecting their various cultures in music, song and dance. Admission will be in books and toys which are to be given to the Salvation Army Christmas Appeal.

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Blood Drive

November 11, 2008

NPLS members - together with members from Northwood United - will be undertaking a range of projects including recycling discarded goods, establishing a nappy bank for unused disposable nappies for donation to asylum seekers and providing a CV workshop for the unemployed. In conjunction with Northwood United, they will be asking members to donate blood for the NHS. They will be supported in their efforts by local MP, Nick Hurd, who is the shadow Minister for Charities and Volunteering.

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AJEX Remembrance Parade

November 11, 2008

120 JLGB members from the London senior units will be on hand to help the ex-servicemen marching in the traditional AJEX Remembrance Parade to the Cenotaph. JLGB bands will be performing, and members will be carrying AJEX banners for ailing ex servicemen, pushing wheelchairs and handing out orders of service to the public. Junior members of the JLGB will be visiting Jewish old age homes to entertain ex servicemen and women who are unable to attend the parade. The Chief Rabbi and Simon Hochhauser, Chief Executive of the United Synagogue will be supporting the ALEX march.

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Refugee Welcome Packs

November 11, 2008

Working with the Separated Child Foundation, the JCC for London will be creating welcome packs for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, who arrive on the shores of Britain without basic essentials. Darfuri refugees and volunteers from the Association of Jewish Refugees will be amongst those helping to pack up toiletries and other necessities to send to these children.

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Wrapping Toys for Barnardo’s

November 11, 2008

Edgware and District Reform Synagogue's whole religion school will be taking part in different activities throughout the day, but this specific project will be undertaken by the Year 5 students (8 and 9 year olds). They will be shown a short film about Barnardo's and will then pack toys which have been brought in by parents to be distributed through Barnado's to disadvantaged children and young people in Essex.

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Mitzvah Day shopping

November 11, 2008

In association with GIFT, a number of organisations, such as Bnei Akiva, will be setting up stands in local supermarkets and shopping malls to ask shoppers to add just one extra item to their shopping lists, as a donation to homeless and refugee charities across Britain. Lady Sacks, for example, will be helping to staff a stand at Adafina Kosher deli in St John's Wood, while the Liberal Jewish Synagogue will be setting out their stall at the O2 centre on the Finchley Road.

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Mitzvah Day Packathon

November 11, 2008

Under the watchful supervision of WJR, 150 teenagers and adults from synagogues across central and North London, and from Immanuel College, will join the WJR family packathon to send clothes to those in need in the Ukraine, in time for winter.

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Kentish Town City Farm

By admin, November 11, 2008

Founder and chair of Mitzvah Day UK, Laura Marks, Dan Patterson, creator of the BBC's ‘Mock the Week', and Baroness Neuberger, the Government's adviser on volunteering, will be joining LJY Netzer to volunteer at the Kentish Town City Farm. Founded in 1972 to give Londoners exposure to various farm animals, gardening space and horse riding, unlike a formal museum or petting zoo, the farm is designed to give visitors a hands-on experience of both animals and the environment.

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