Chanukah Tzedakah Appeal 2025
This Chanukah, we are supporting the Winter Night Shelter at NNLS and the NNLS Destitute Asylum Seekers Drop In.
We would be grateful for your donation using the form below:
winter night shelter
This winter, NNLS is once again partnering with Homeless Action in Barnet, an amazing local charity providing vital support, dignity, and practical assistance to those facing homelessness. Their work has transformed countless lives, and we are proud to play our part by hosting guests every Monday throughout January and February as part of the Night Shelter initiative. To help cover the rising costs of providing warm meals, safe shelter, and essential supplies, we are asking for donations from our community. Any contribution, large or small, will directly support this vital and compassionate effort and ensure we can continue offering warmth, care, and hospitality to those who need it most. Thank you for your generosity.
Rabbi Jonathan writes:
Yom Kippur is ‘prime time’ for every Jew. That’s why the rabbis chose it for Isaiah’s searing words:
‘When you see the hungry, feed them; the naked, clothe them; the oppressed poor, take them into your home.’
That’s exactly what the Winter Night Shelter does, during the worst of the weather when it’s freezing, wet and dangerous to sleep hungry in the street.
‘Don’t look the other way,’ Isaiah continues: ‘Don’t pretend you haven’t noticed.’ That’s why we must support the Winter Night Shelter.
nnls asylum seekers drop in
The NNLS Destitute Asylum Seekers Drop In 
supports around 900 asylum seekers. Every month we run a safe, welcoming space that offers supermarket vouchers and travel expenses, legal and medical signposting, hot meals, toiletries, and warm clothing to those who have fled persecution and hardship. This work is powered almost entirely by our committed team of volunteers – and funded by the compassion of our donors, many of whom have a connection to the synagogue. Since 2006 we have supported thousands of people from over 60 countries — many of them survivors of war, torture, or sexual violence — who are not allowed to work here and are often living in deep poverty. This appeal is supported by matched funding up to £10,000 – making your donations highly effective.
Rabbi Jonathan writes:
Next to the Ark in our synagogue are inscribed the Torah’s words: ‘Love the stranger.’
Like so many Jewish people, I’m the child of refugees. We’ve had many refugees living in our home.
When one hears their stories, not from the headlines but at one’s kitchen table, one’s heart goes out to them.
Yet the message from so many countries today is ‘Refugees unwelcome.’
That is why, in the name of the Torah and Jewish history, we should support our NNLS Destitute Asylum Seekers Drop In.
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Sat, 24 January 2026
6 Shevat 5786
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