Kol Nidrei Appeal 2025
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GATEWAYS
Gateways is an alternative education provider dedicated to supporting Jewish 14-25 year-olds who struggle to remain in mainstream education due to social, emotional, and mental health challenges. Increasingly, many young people find it difficult to function in traditional education settings, often feeling there are no other options available to them. The charity believes every young person deserves the chance to progress and thrive, regardless of the challenges they face.
Gateways provides hope, determination, and achievement through high-quality teaching in a flexible, safe and nurturing environment. Their bespoke curriculum is tailored to meet the individual needs of each student, offering them a chance to reinvent themselves and build the confidence necessary for future success.
The Gateways Hardship Fund plays a critical role by providing essential financial assistance to students who need support with food, travel, course fees, therapy, and other essential expenses. The rising cost of living has made the Hardship Fund more vital than ever, providing students with the resources they need to succeed, helping them remain engaged in education and to build a brighter future. Gateways strives to help kids who would otherwise be left behind.
MANNA
MANNA is a humanitarian organisation committed to supporting Israel’s most vulnerable individuals and families through food security, basic necessities, and compassionate care. Originally focused on providing nutritious meals and essential groceries to low-income households, elderly citizens, and Holocaust survivors, MANNA has evolved into a critical responder in times of national crisis. They make sure no one is left behind.
Following the devastating October 7th, 2023 attacks, which displaced thousands from Israel’s northern and southern communities, MANNA supplemented the limited welfare payments with weekly food distributions and emotional support—delivering not only physical sustenance but also a sense of stability and care.
In April 2024, during the wave of Iranian missile attacks, MANNA activated their emergency response network to ensure food deliveries continued uninterrupted, especially to the elderly and displaced.
Find out more about MANNA.
WATERLOO COMMUNITY COUNSELLING
Waterloo Community Counselling was established in 1995 to address vital local needs in London’s mental health landscape. One of London’s few services offering long-term therapy at reduced fees or entirely free, WWC focuses on adults who are economically disadvantaged, as well as refugees, asylum seekers, and vulnerable migrants providing multilingual counselling.
Alongside this impactful counselling, WWC have developed effective ways to support the healing and wellbeing of their clients through supportive groups, community partnerships, signposting and holistic support.
Last year, WCC provided over 7,500 hours of high-quality therapy to 695 adults in 30 languages.
The diversity of the team is key to ensuring effective support, recruiting counsellors with lived experience in issues like asylum, discrimination, domestic abuse, and disability— many are migrants or refugees themselves. These are people who would otherwise be left behind.
Find out more about Waterloo Community Counselling.
world jewish relief
World Jewish Relief provides life-saving and life-changing support to people in crisis around the world. Rooted in Jewish values and history, the charity responds to conflict, disaster and poverty, helping people survive and rebuild with dignity. Its programmes deliver sustainable impact for vulnerable people within and beyond the Jewish community.
One such community is the Abayudaya Jews of eastern Uganda, who have practised Judaism for over a century. Founded in 1919 by a local chieftain, the community flourished until the 1970s, when Jewish life was brutally suppressed under Idi Amin’s regime. Against the odds, a small group kept their faith alive. Today, around 2,000 Jews remain, mostly in Nabugoye, where Jewish schools and a newly built World Jewish Relief-supported synagogue form the heart of community life.
Despite their resilience, many Abayudaya Jews live in poverty, unable to grow enough food or earn a reliable income. In response, World Jewish Relief helped establish Jewish Response Uganda and, in 2017, launched the TransFARMation project. It equips Jewish families with the tools and training to become successful commercial farmers: renting land, growing high-value crops, learning financial planning, and selling to local markets. Since it began, the programme has helped hundreds of participants improve their harvests, increase their incomes and build food security. This is not aid. It is empowerment. And it helps to ensure that the Abayudaya community is not left behind.
Find out more about World Jewish Relief.
Masorti young adult outreach & nnls nurturing potential
Masorti Young Adult Outreach
Keeping young adults in their 20s connected to communal Jewish life is not easy. Many drift away from Judaism, and feel lonely, isolated, and cut off from community. Without support, structure, and opportunities to engage, on their own terms, we risk losing them entirely.
Masorti Judaism offers a pathway back to belonging. Building on the connections formed through Noam and Noam Alumni, we are uniquely placed to create networks of young adults seeking meaningful Jewish life as adults. We help them build relationships with rabbis, find their place in Masorti communities, and collaborate with emerging leaders to create new projects and events.
NNLS Nurturing Potential Fund
At NNLS, our strength lies in our people. To ensure we continue attracting outstanding rabbis, educators, and future volunteer leaders, we must invest in emerging Jewish leaders today.
The NNLS Nurturing Potential
Fund makes this possible — supporting our young adults in deepening their Jewish knowledge, pursuing semicha or Jewish education careers, and building service leadership skills.
If you are a young adult exploring a future in Jewish education and leadership and would like to apply for funding, please contact office@nnls-masorti.org.uk
Tzedakah / Charities - Giving at NNLS
Tzedakah is a mainstay of Jewish life. The sages teach that the world was built upon kindness. However, tzedakah goes one step beyond. Literally translated as “justice” or “righteousness,” tzedakah tells us that sharing what we have with others isn't something special, it is the just thing to do.
NNLS supports a range of charities through our appeals at Pesach and Yom Kippur, and throughout the year.
"And when you reap the harvest in your land, you shall not reap the corners of your field; neither shall you gather the gleaning of your harvest. And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the single grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and the stranger." Vayikra 19:9-10
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Kol Nidrei Appeal
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Shema Koleinu
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