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Kisharon needs £1.5million to thrive Kisharon is appealing to the comand equality and Kisharon is there to make sure that people munity for support this weekend with learning disabilities have (May 15-16th). A 36-hour £1.5m fundraising the same opportunities as their campaign will ensure the charity mainstream peers.” can fund its essential SEN and Five Kisharon College students, Srulik, Pini, Shloimy, learning disability services for children and adults they support. Nissim and Yiddele have formed All donations will be doubled a team with a £10k target, pledgthrough match funding. Funds ing to ask friends and families raised will go towards £2.2m refor support. quired for essential services to Involvement in the campaign ensure everyone can thrive. for students has become a lesson Chronic underfunding is set to in numeracy and IT. remain for social care services for College manager Aviva Braunthe learning-disabled community, old said, “Pini set up our fundwhich, together with the cost-ofraising page online, and we living crisis, means funding preshave been learning the value of money and how different parts sures are greater than ever. of Kisharon operate.” The fundraising campaign, given the theme ‘thrive’, illustrates Shloimy summed up the colthe value Kisharon places on each With your support, Jack can grow as a professional artist PHOTO: ROBERT SHACK lege as “amazing”, adding, “It’s individual. unbelievable. I have no other Richard Franklin, Kisharon chief execu- to seeing people we support thrive. We words for it.” tive said, “We strive to ensure that everyone want everyone to live and be respected as Emma Castleton, Kisharon Noé School we support has the same opportunities equals. When the people we support thrive, Chair of Governors, is mother of a pupil, and experiences as anybody else. It’s not we thrive too.” Elias. only the broad range of services and equipPhilip Goldberg, Kisharon chairman “All you ever want is for your child to be ment that enables the people we support added, “It is so important that every single happy and to be fulfilled, to have the opto shine, it is the absolute dedication of person is given the tools to grow, to be- portunity to reach their potential,” she said. the Kisharon team, fantastic teachers and come the very best version of themselves, “When Elias was born it was hard knowing support staff, carrying out their roles with to learn a skillset enabling them to live and that life wouldn’t be easy for him and that excellence, kindness and empathy. We are work in our community and beyond. We there were big challenges ahead. All that committed to what we do, and committed live in a world where we aspire for success changed when Kisharon entered our lives
Lighting the first of seven candles at the Manchester Yom Hazikaron ceremony, was Mr Russell Conn, President of the Greater Manchester and Region Jewish Representative Council. Chazan Adam Caplan recited Kel Maleh Rachamim.
Russell Conn lights the first candle at the Yom Hazikaron ceremony
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and he began to thrive. Elias has learnt to walk in spite of being told he never would.” Jane Pearl’s son Chanochi and Aliza Kander’s son Eitan attend the school. “He has flourished at school and hope he is able to continue to,” Jane noted. “Eitan is likely to be at Kisharon for a long time and they are giving him and us a lifetime of support,” explained Aliza. “Kisharon is a really important charity, not just for us but for so many others too. As a community, we must all do what we can this weekend.” Feedback from parents on how children are supported illustrates why support is so important. The father of Max, a supported living tenant, shared, “Max gets incredible support from the Kisharon team. He really is totally happy and settled and that is purely down to the effort of his support workers who have gone above and beyond the call of duty.” Kisharon is a unique organisation with a Jewish ethos and offers children and adults with learning disabilities a rich and diverse education. Kisharon’s education and employment services, together with its innovative social enterprises and supported living schemes, enable individuals to thrive, learn, grow and feel valued in the community. Donations: www.charityextra.com/ kisharon22
Aish UK raises £2.5 million in 30 hours! Aish UK raised an incredible £2.5 million in 30 hours in their causematch campaign over Sunday 8th to Monday 9th May. With the help of 171 fundraising teams, together with a group of generous benefactors who committed to double every donation received, Aish UK was able to reach its unbelievable target of £2.2 million and then went further to raise an extra £300,000 in the bonus round. 4520 individual donations were made during the campaign, including a very generous single donations of £30,000 which was also doubled by the matchers. Aish UK has been connecting young Jews to their culture, heritage and other Jews for almost three decades, and even though the last two years presented it with new challenges, Aish UK in turn created new opportunities. For the last two years, Aish UK has used its online platforms to provide world class education, connecting people to their Judaism virtually, and now, with the help of the much-needed funds raised in this campaign, Aish UK is pledging to redouble its efforts and provide stellar, in-person education and experiences, social events and world class trips for young Jews across the UK, alongside those virtual connections. This essential fundraising campaign was spearheaded by Aish UK’s Chief Executive, Rabbi Naftali Schiff, together with the Aish UK teams in both London and Manchester. For 30 hours, all 171 teams hit the phones for Aish UK’s biggest fundraiser of the year,
Left to right: Lee Jacobs, Lori Coren, Rabbi Shmuel Kott, Rabbi Gideon Goldwater, Rabbi Dovid Lichtig, Rabbi Naftali Schiff, Rabbi Daniel Rowe
with Aish UK pledging to double its efforts in its work within 27 schools, 19 universities and 22 communities nationwide, connecting thousands of young Jews with others and most importantly with their Judaism. Rabbi Naftali Schiff, CEO of Aish UK said; “Over the last three decades tens of thousands of lives in this country have been impacted by the work of Aish UK. As we look to the future, this campaign will enable Aish UK to double down on our efforts to double the in-person Jewish connections
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we form across schools, campuses and communities nationwide. Thank you to every single person who generously supported this campaign and thereby ensuring Aish UK can continue our work creating connections.” Rabbi Daniel Rowe, Senior Educator of Aish UK said: “Aish UK isn’t there to build Aish, it’s there to build up everyone else. We are there to be the engine that drives the young Jewish revolution and raising these vital funds gives us the ability to do that.”
