The United Synagogue

Project Chesed - Caring about the wider world

While USCC is about our members making a difference to the lives of other members, Project Chesed is about assisting our members in other acts of loving kindness that will make a difference to the wider Jewish community or to the wider world in which we’re living.


Each year we introduce a number of innovative Project Chesed campaigns. For example, we launched a big Blood Donor Campaign where we have encouraged the Jewish community to save lives by giving blood and this has resulted in over a thousand life saving blood donations. We have also coordinated several collections in support of a variety of charities including collections of shoes (for children in Africa), toys (for Jews living in poverty in Eastern Europe), chametz for the homeless (for local homeless hostels), glasses (for the developing world) and even old mobile phones (to help raise money for our work.) We tend to collect items that we have lying around the house that can make a huge difference to the lives of others living in different circumstances.


Further to this, we have organised first aid courses for dozens of communities; we are working with young adults from Kisharon on a silver cleaning project where we are linking them to our shuls to clean the silver on our Sifrei Torah; we are helping our shuls to recycle their waste and consider their impact on the environment; and we organise educational and fun programmes centred around the theme of Chesed for our shuls and schools which focus on our Jewish obligation to be socially responsible and include plenty of practical ideas for action.


There are literally thousands of people whose lives have been changed by Project Chesed initiatives. And this year there are going to be lots more campaigns. Just log on regularly to the US Chesed section on the You and US website to see details of our latest projects -
www.theus.org.uk/chesed


And do be in touch with us if you are looking for practical chesed ideas yourself or have time to help us develop our projects.


Project Chesed is generously supported by the Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation and Pears Foundation. Project Chesed is proud to work in loving memory of Dr Benjamin Angel z"l.


To visit Pears Foundation website please click here



Michelle Minksy
Head of US Chesed
Emali: lmminsky@theus.org.uk
Tel: 020 8343 5688

this week
shabbat times

May. 25th - 26th
5th Sivan
Begins: 20:46
Ends: 22:03
Sedra: Bamidbar

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