But now we want to go one better and make those connections closer, and understand you and your community first hand.
We call this the “Reaching Small Communities” initiative.
Our goal for 2019-20 is to have face-to-face meetings with as many communities as we can.
Each visit is unique…
- Meeting community leaders
- Visiting your communal facilities
- Speaking at your community events
- Gaining a first hand understanding of what you do and what your needs and concerns are
…are some of the purposes of this initiative.
Gaining that understanding is vital.
JSCN works alongside all the main communal organisations, including the Board of Deputies, Jewish Leadership Council and across the spectrum of the Rabbinic and other religious institutions.
We are also asked to take part in forums that include our statutory and political representatives, such as health service, local councils, police etc.
They all want to understand the broad picture of the needs and perspectives of the Jewish community.
Because of our work since 2003, JSCN provides that opportunity for them. But we continually strive to do more.
NOTE: To help us reach more people, if you can offer accommodation (for one person) during our visit your support would be greatly appreciated.
- Staging four Regional Meetings for small Jewish communities across the North of England
- Launching a pilot of 4 Podcast programmes
- Creating a resources website to support community resilience
Our first Regional Meeting was conducted as a pilot in Chester. Communities from as far as Stoke on Trent to Southport attended. It included Jewish residents of Chester and and those living remotely within a radius of 60 miles.
Our meeting in St Annes on Sea attracted over forty people from all five communities in the Northwest.
As a direct result of the meeting we were able to bring in expert support to help win funds to create a befriending service in St Annes.
A further smaller networking meeting was held with the communities in Newcastle upon Tyne. Here we discussed both resilience in a declining community and regeneration in an expanding community.
Our final regional meeting, in Sheffield, attracted participation from as far as Norwich and Newcastle, and was attended by around 60 people. Outcomes from this were exert help delivered to Leicester Hebrew Congregation to win funds to further their Heritage and Education projects, and building ties between Leicester and Norwich for future collaborations.
The Jewish TALK podcast can be found on this website, or via iTunes, or by linking directly to this feed https://pod.co/jscn-talk/feed.xml
JSCN Transform is our resources website supporting resilience – http://jscn.org.uk/transform
Supported by the Big Lottery Fund
Based on this success, we are applying to extend this work in new project focussing on the South of England
Jewish TALK features a range of content both for and about Jewish Small Communities across the UK. In addition, because there are fewer opportunities for speakers to visit smaller communities in person, we also include a range of topics on Jewish Life and Culture in general.
Jewish TALK brings those voices to you, and your voice to the world.
The Podcast is available on iTunes, TuneIn, and a range of popular Podcast platforms, as well as the JSCN website itself.
You can listen on a range of devices including your phone, tablet, computer, and other smart devices that access Podcast feeds.
Supported by the National Lottery Community Fund
The Jewish community spread far wider across the country then than is does now. Our role is to help the project reach into those areas that are now small communities.
JSCN has participated on the panel at several events, presenting this Manifesto to Local Councillors in different regions.
JHASW
The Jewish Historical Association of South Wales will be devising a toolkit that will help communities preserve their own heritage. The toolkit will enable individuals and communities with no previous experience of heritage projects, to create high-quality digital outputs and make them available to as wide an audience as possible. It will be a one-stop-shop providing guidance, standards, processes, exemplars, and suggestions for ways in which the digital outputs could be used.. …read more
JSCN is partnering JHASW to host the TOOLKIT and make it available to all communities.
JLC Eldery Care Commission
The Jewish Leadership Council commissioned a report by McKinsey &Co. analysing the current state of Jewish elderly care provision and making projections for the next 5 years. …read more
JSCN was invited to attended the conference discussing this report, to add the perspective of Jewish small communities.
Care across the community
JSCN also links with the National Association of Jewish Homes, the FED, Jewish Care and others to help extend and tailor provision for Elderly Care, Learning Needs, Mental Health, and Disabilty into small communities and for remote families and individuals.
