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12 MAY 2022 Kisharon needs £1.5million to thrive

Kisharon is appealing to the community for support this weekend (May 15-16th).

A 36-hour £1.5m fundraising campaign will ensure the charity can fund its essential SEN and learning disability services for children and adults they support.

All donations will be doubled through match funding. Funds raised will go towards £2.2m required for essential services to ensure everyone can thrive.

Chronic underfunding is set to remain for social care services for the learning-disabled community, which, together with the cost-ofliving crisis, means funding pressures are greater than ever.

The fundraising campaign, given the theme ‘thrive’, illustrates the value Kisharon places on each individual.

Richard Franklin, Kisharon chief executive said, “We strive to ensure that everyone we support has the same opportunities and experiences as anybody else. It’s not only the broad range of services and equipment that enables the people we support to shine, it is the absolute dedication of the Kisharon team, fantastic teachers and support staff, carrying out their roles with excellence, kindness and empathy. We are committed to what we do, and committed to seeing people we support thrive. We want everyone to live and be respected as equals. When the people we support thrive, we thrive too.”

Philip Goldberg, Kisharon chairman added, “It is so important that every single person is given the tools to grow, to become the very best version of themselves, to learn a skillset enabling them to live and work in our community and beyond. We live in a world where we aspire for success

and equality and Kisharon is there to make sure that people with learning disabilities have the same opportunities as their mainstream peers.” Five Kisharon College students, Srulik, Pini, Shloimy, Nissim and Yiddele have formed a team with a £10k target, pledging to ask friends and families for support. Involvement in the campaign for students has become a lesson in numeracy and IT. College manager Aviva Braunold said, “Pini set up our fundraising page online, and we have been learning the value of money and how different parts of Kisharon operate.” Shloimy summed up the colWith your support, Jack can grow as a professional artist PHOTO: ROBERT SHACK lege as “amazing”, adding, “It’s unbelievable. I have no other words for it.” Emma Castleton, Kisharon Noé School Chair of Governors, is mother of a pupil, Elias. “All you ever want is for your child to be happy and to be fulfilled, to have the opportunity to reach their potential,” she said. “When Elias was born it was hard knowing that life wouldn’t be easy for him and that there were big challenges ahead. All that changed when Kisharon entered our lives 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

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.

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 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.”