WOODSIDE PARK CARES

Woodside Park Shul is a caring community. The welfare of our community is important and taken seriously. Our volunteers do everything possible to provide informal care and support as professionally as possible.

Our dedicated and friendly team of volunteers

Deliver Purim gifts and Rosh Hashanah honey cakes to Shul members.
Telephone members on an as and when basis and also before Pesach and Rosh Hashnnah.
Visit members in their homes.
Transport members to and from social activities on Shul premises, other local day centres and nearby medical appointments.
Send birthday and anniversary cards to “senior” members of our community.
Liaise closely with the organisers of the Tea Parties, Telling Tales out of Shul and CHAT A WAY to facilitate attendance at these events.

Many thanks to our wonderful team of volunteers

For Bereavement please click here

For Hospital Visiting please click here

We could always do with help, and may also consider extending our offer, so any persons able to pledge some time will be most welcome.

Contact details: wpscares@woodsidepark.org.uk 020 8445 4236 Extension 2

Woodside Park Cares is part of the United Synagogue's Community Cares

For more information please click here

Bereavement

If you need someone to talk to following the death of a relative or friend, then Woodside Park Community Cares is able to offer you someone to talk to who has been specifically trained to provide you with bereavement support and if they are unable to help you, to point you, in the direction of someone who can.

For more information please click here

Hospital Visitation

In the unfortunate event that a Jewish person is in hospital, the Jewish Hospital Visiting Service, coordinated by US Chesed, will arrange for trained chaplains and visitors from the Jewish community to pay them a visit.

For more information, please click here to go Hospital Visiting on the United Synagogue website.

WP Cares @ WPS

Tea Parties

Have been hugely successful they take place take place on the fourth Tuesday of every month

Care Homes Tea

The Ben & Anita Bernstein Care Homes Tea. Residents of six local care homes visit WPS annually for tea and entertainment

Mitzvah Day

Thousands of people take part in hands on projects, to support charities and to build stronger communities. Take a look at what is happening at WPS

& Beyond

JBCS

Individual counselling and group support are provided by professionally trained counsellors, from Jewish Bereavement Counselling Service.

Butterflies

Bereavement support group Butterflies -specifically for parents of young children, who are themselves coping with the loss of a parent.

Hospital Visitation

If you are staying or visiting a hospital, or if you would like a visit from our Hospital Visitation team and learn about the work of Ezra Umarpeh

Camp Simcha

Could you be our eyes and ears to make sure no child who needs us slips through the net.

Holocaust Memorial Day

27 January is the day for everyone to remember the millions of people killed in the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur

WIZO

Raises money to support more than 12,000 at-risk children attending WIZO centres throughout Israel

Jewish Women's Week

Rosemary Goodman, the local captain has announced that £11,898 was raised this year

Dementia Friends

There is a drive in this country nationally to involve more people to become Dementia 'friends’

US Chesed Helpline

If your members need practical, emotional or spiritual support, they can telephone 020 8343 5696

Stillborn Support Group

The US Chesed Stillbirth Support Group (SSG) offers help and support to men and women who have suffered a stillborn birth, either recently or sometime in the past

Jewish Women's Aid

One woman in four will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. We provide outreach support to women in the community

Chana

1 in 6 couples experience infertity: with Chana you are not alone

Middx. Assoc. for the Blind

Each Borough has its own co-ordinator and a team of volunteers, offering free help to those who are blind or visually impaired

Raphael

Jewish Counselling Service offering a confidential counselling serviceWe help those experiencing depression, anxiety and emotional distress of all kinds as well as second and third generation holocaust traumas.

Jnetics

devoted to the prevention of Jewish genetic disorders, have an established clinic in Barnet Hospital to provide a local and easily accessible screening service for the Jewish Community

Jweb

Learning disabilities in the Jewish Community. Find and share information for families, professionals and carers in the UK.

Jewish Helpline

Problems? If you need a non-judgemental, listening ear, call the Jewish Helpline

Furniture Gemach

The furniture gemach has been active in London for some 25 years on a daily basis. Please contact them if you have any furniture to donate

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