The foresight of the Redbridge Jewish Community Centre founders was applauded at a celebration of its 50th anniversary.
Looking back on the RJCC beginnings, its president, Phillip Leigh, told guests: “Dr Sidney Gold, a local GP, and Bernard Sinclair, a pharmacist who had a dispensary in Stepney, recognised that there was a generation of people marrying and moving from the East End and settling in Ilford.”
Sinclair House opened in 1969 and in 1997 merged with Jewish Care, “enabling us to continue our work in Redbridge and Essex”.
Today the centre delivers social, welfare, educational and community programmes to more than 2,000 people every week. Activities range from play sessions for children to salt beef socials.
