Mike Freer, Finchley and Golders Green MP together with Councillors from Barnet will be painting a lounge and hallway at a Norwood Supported Living home in Finchley, on Sunday 21st November in support of Mitzvah Day – a day of good deeds. A number of volunteers will be taking part in similar projects within Norwood, a charity that supports people with learning disabilities and children and families in need.
The aim of the day is to encourage people to give up their time to perform a good deed for others. There will be a hive of activity across the community including members of the Edgware Reform Synagogue, who are going to be making Chanukah cards alongside Cheder students for Norwood residents. At Norwood’s Kennedy Leigh Family Centre children and their parents will be painting murals, cleaning toys and in the evening they will be holding an ‘Antiques Roadshow’.
Elsewhere, Wimbledon Synagogue and Maidenhead Reform Synagogue will be putting their arts and crafts skills to use by making decorations for the upcoming Chanukah dance at Ravenswood in Berkshire. Whilst King Solomon High students will be cleaning toys at Norwood’s Leonard Sainer Family Centre in Redbridge.
Norwood will also be involved in the spirit of Mitzvah Day by organising a ‘collectathon’ of hats, scarves and gloves at the Kennedy Leigh Family Centre for World Jewish Relief and will also be making cakes for all of the Mitzvah Day volunteers at the Norwood Deli in Hendon.
For more information about Norwood Mitzvah Day opportunities please contact Hilary Rosen, Norwood’s Development Manager, on 020 8457 4452 or hilary.rosen@norwood.org.uk.
