Charitable & Welfare Organisations

Aguda Community Services
tel: 0161 792 6265

fax: 0161 708 9177

General Enquiries & Children's Centre

Training & Employment Partnership

tel: 0161 705 0000

fax: 0161 708 9177

email: agudatep@googlemail.com

Drop-in advice sessions - Tuesdays and Thursdays 2.00pm to 5.00pm. At all other times by appointment

Help and guidance for job seekers: CV writing and improvement, job search techniques

Help for employers: preparing the job/person specification, finding the right candidates

Career guidance and advice

Advice and access to education and training for employment or change of career

Blackpool & Fylde Jewish Welfare Society
tel: 01253 392 382

British Friends of Laniado UK

tel: 0161 708 9141

Laniado is the only hospital in Netanya and serves more than 250,000. It is the only hospital in Israel with a no-strike policy. No one in need of care is turned away, regardless of ability to pay, religious affiliation or ethnic group. Since its foundation in 1975 it has become a sophisticated hospital with a countrywide reputation for devoted care focused on the patient. Much of this has been made possible by a wide network of friends throughout the Jewish world.

Brookvale
“Caring for People with Special Needs”
tel: 0161 653 1767

fax: 0161 655 3635

email: admin@brookvale.org

Care Concern
tel: 0161 796 0807

Confidential loss and bereavement counselling by trained counsellors who provide the service in association with the League of Jewish Women and Manchester Jewish Federation.

Eshel Colel Chabad

tel: 0161 720 9992

Eshel Colel Chabad is one of the biggest providers of humanitarian aid in Israel.  We run 19 food halls and aim to help 500,000 children a year by delivering over 8500 tons of food.  Formed in 1788, for over 221 years we have remained faithful to our mission to help any Jew.  Because nothing is more basic than eliminating hunger.

Heathlands Village
tel: 0161 772 4800
fax: 0161 772 4934

email: info@heathlandsvillage.co.uk

website: www.heathlandsvillage.co.uk

The Heathlands Village is the premier Jewish Care Home in the North of England. It is home to over 200 people. With a staff of 250+ and 100+ volunteers, it provides care of the highest quality, offering residential, nursing and respite care and has a special care unit for residents with Alzheimer's and Dementia.

Moorview House -

website: www.moorviewhouse.co.uk - is an integral part of the Village and provides 42 flats for independent living with support.

Hospital Kosher Meals
Kosher meals are supplied to hospitals in the Greater Manchester area and can be ordered on the ward in advance without charge to the patient.

Interlink Foundation

tel: 0161 740 1877

fax: 0161 721 4772

email: director@interlink-manchester.org.uk

Strengthening the orthodox Jewish voluntary sector in north west England. Supporting charitable organisations by assistance with funding applications and capacity building.

JCOM Employment Agency Ltd

tel: 0161 708 2972

fax: 0161 708 8385

email: info@jcomemployment.org

web: www.jcomemployment.org

Jewish Marriage Council - Manchester
tel: 0161 740 5764

The Council provides confidential relationship counselling services to the Jewish community.

JEMS - Jewish Maternity Services and Family Support
tel: 0161 795 3362

Jewish Women's Aid

JWA helpline 0800 49 12 03

24 hour national helpline (ask for Jewish services) 0808 200 247

website: www.jwa.org.uk

Offering help and support to Jewish women and children who have experienced or are experiencing domestic violence and abuse.

No Jewish Woman Deserves to Live In Fear - Are you a woman who has been affected by physical, emotional, economic or sexual abuse? If so, you are not alone and you are not to blame. Jewish Women's Aid is run by Jewish women for Jewish women and their children affected by domestic violence.

Keshorim UK

Keshorim UK is a strictly confidential 'hotline' that is manned by trained individuals within the orthodox Jewish community to assist you in times of distress.

Whether you just need a 'listening ear' or are in a time of real crisis, please give us a call. This service is offered on a strictly confidential basis, with your anonymity respected, and has the approval of local rabbonim.

Please ring 0161 795 1118

Monday-Thursday 8am-10pm

Sunday 10am-12noon, 8pm-10pm

Langdon Community (Registered Charity No 1086393)

tel: 0161 773 4070

email: admin@langdoncommunity.org.uk

website: www.langdoncommunity.org.uk

The Community operates a network of individually adapted flats and houses in Manchester and North London supporting young Jewish adults with learning difficulties to live as independently as possible and focusing on four specific areas:

Langdon Foundation (Registered Charity No 101622)

tel: 020 8951 3942

email: admin@langdonfoundation.org.uk

website: www.langdon.info

Langdon creats confident, assertise and independent young Jewish adults with learning difficulties who:

The League of Jewish Women
tel: 0161 792 4798

The League works for all denominations in the field of welfare. 550 members go out weekly on a rota system to assist Bury, Manchester, Salford and Trafford Social Services, hospitals, schools, prisons and reminiscence work, all serving both Jewish and wider communities. Care Concern provides a Loss & Bereavement Counselling Service. The League runs a weekly Luncheon Club and nine Friendship Clubs for senior citizens in the Jewish community.

Holland Road Club provides day activities and meals to elderly people each Thursday, under the care and supervision of the League of Jewish Women.

Manchester Jewish Community Care
tel: 0161 740 0111
fax: 721 4273
email: info@mjcc.org.uk
website: www.mjcc.org.uk

Provides day care for those with visual impairment, physical disability, elderly, frail, lonely or suffering from a dementia-related illness. The Day Centre has a state-of-the-art Bathing Room catering for those who are unable to bathe themselves at home.

The Nicky Alliance Day Centre is open Monday-Thursday 10am-4pm, and on Friday 10am-1pm and offers a wide range of social, cultural, therapeutic and educational activities as well as a hot three-course lunch under the supervision of the Manchester Beth Din. Transport can be provided using our own buses. The Day Centre offers members other facilities including: a Hairdressing Salon, Nail Care, Chiropody, Library and Convenience Shop, and provides a "Meals-on-Wheels" service. The League of Jewish Women run the Northern Jewish Talking Newspaper, which records the Jewish Telegraph each week for people with impaired vision. A Social Worker is available at the Centre to assist members either at the Centre or in their home.

The building provides office space and meeting facilities for the Greater Manchester Jewish Housing Association, the League of Jewish Women, the Jewish Marriage Council and Care Concern. Its facilities are also used by other social and cultural groups. Rooms are available for hire for both communal and private functions and meetings.

Manchester Jewish Federation (The Fed)
tel: 0161 795 0024
fax: 0161 795 3688
email: info@thefed.org.uk

South Manchester Branch Office tel: 0161 941 4442/fax: 0161 941 5039

email: southside@thefed.org.uk

The Fed strives to improve the lives of Jewish people in need, of all ages and backgrounds, who live in Greater Manchester.  Its dedicated team of paid and voluntary employee provide a professional and caring service, both on an individual and group basis to:

• people who care for a family member or friend
• children who are at risk or who have special needs, and their families
• people who are going through bereavement
• people who are deaf
• people who suffer mental health or emotional difficulties
• people who are physically disabled
• people in financial crisis
• people who are socially isolated
• people who are subject to violence or abuse

The Fed carries out professional assessments of people's care needs and, as required, puts in place its own or outside support.  This can mean providing a befriender for a lonely older person, arranging a break for a parent caring for a child with special needs, or setting up a complex package of care to enable a disabled person to continue to live in their own home.

The Fed enjoys accreditation from Health and Local Authorities and the Care Quality Commission.  Since November 2007 it has held the Investing in Volunteers Award and since January 2009, the Investors in People Kite-mark.  In July 2009 The Fed became a top-ranked charity on the Intelligent Giving website http://www.intelligentgiving.com/charity/1082313

Further information about The Fed's services, how to become a volunteer and how to donate can be found on its website at: www.thefed.org.uk

Manchester Jewish Housing Association Ltd
tel: 0161 740 0001
fax: 0161 795 3460
email: info@mjha.org.uk

web: www.gmjha.org.uk

Provides sheltered housing schemes at:

Manchester Jewish Soup Kitchen
0161 795 4930

Meals-on-Wheels Service, provisions and other amenities to the needy, elderly, sick, infirm and housebound. Special food for Passover and all other Festivals. Visiting recipients at home and in hospital.

Manchester 35 Group
tel: 0161 766 4391

Women's Campaign founded in 1971 to fight for basic human rights for Soviet Jews. The Group fights at national and international levels against the rise of antisemitism in the former Soviet Union, gives aid to Jews in need in all parts of the former Soviet Union and supports the revival of Jewish life and newly-established Jewish institutions, especially in St Petersburg.

Manchester Magen David Adom

tel: 0161 795 2999

fax: 0161 929 1705

email: manchester@ukmda.org

web: www.mdauk.org

Magen David Adom is Israel's only Emergency Servicel and Blood Bank, which is funded solely by charitable contributions from Jewish communities around the world. Formed in 1930, it has over 800 ambulances, responds to 500,000 emergency calls a year, as well as collecting over 90% of Israel's blood requirements.

Miyad
Jewish crisis line
(freephone) 0800 652 9249

Morris Feinmann Homes Trust
tel: 0161 445 3533
website: www.morrisfeinmannhome.com

Residential care, respite care, nursing care, palliative care, day care

Outreach Community & Residential Services
tel: 0161 740 3456
fax:740 5678

email:info@outreach.co.uk

website:www.outreach.co.uk

Outreach enables people with learning disabilities and/or mental health concerns to live a full and independent life in the Jewish and wider communities. It provides domiciliary care and permanent supported housing with 24 hour staffing, using professional staff and volunteers. Specialist support services include a variety of individualised work, including college support and integrated leisure and group activities.

Shaare Zedek UK (Manchester)

Registered Charity No 262870
tel: 0161 720 9868
fax: 0870 199 1081
email: shaarezedekman@zen.co.uk

Shaare Zedek was established 105 years ago and is the most centrally-located major hospital in Jerusalem.  Shaare Zedek is a centre of medical excellence renowned for its level of patient care and adherence to traditional Jewish values. The hospital receives no government funding for development, new equipment or research. Donations and bequests, large or small, are therefore of vital importance and are greatly appreciated.

South Manchester Lubavitch Community Care
tel: 0161 929 9999
fax: 0161 929 9255
email: roxy@lubavitch.com

Lubavitch is concerned with the physical as well as spiritual welfare of the community. Bringing the warmth of the non-judgmental Lubavitch spirit into community programmes has proven very successful. Our Swinging 60's Club is renowned for its friendly and lively atmosphere! We offer a range of activities, services and outings, including meals-on-wheels, home and hospital visits, shopping assistance, luncheon clubs and support.

Tay Sachs Screening & Research Programme
tel: 0161 795 7000 ext 5094

website: www.zyworld.com/taysachs

World Jewish Relief - North Manchester Group

tel: 0161 798 0814

Events, fund-raising and work with needy Jewish communities around the world. Current programmes include Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Argentina, Bosnia, Georgia and 27 other countries.

World Jewish Relief - South Manchester Group

tel: 0161 237 9393