Thank you South Hampstead for another outstanding Mitzvah Day 2023!
This year more than ever, we all appreciated a day filled with spreading love, kindness and chesed – coming together as a community to repair our world.
Huge thanks to our South Hampstead Shul and Cheder community, together with our local MP Sir Keir, our local Councillors Nasrine and and Rebecca, and our local residents for the overwhelming spirit of generosity in coming together to support those in need in Camden and beyond.
Thank you to all volunteers for collecting, sorting, schlepping, driving, and delivering. To everyone who dropped off clothes, food & toiletries for Camden’s homeless, vulnerable youth and refugees – it was all particularly appreciated this year.
Enormous thanks to all our dedicated SHY volunteers making their mark outside Sainsbury’s O2 Centre, and our loyal and new community volunteers outside Tesco’s England’s Lane, Aldi O2 Centre, and Kavanagh Budgens in Haverstock Hill.
New Horizon Youth Centre was overwhelmed with the quantity of food and toiletries we delivered – literally just as their cupboards had run bare – they are now stocked to last the whole winter. Castlehaven Foodbank and QCCA communities are equally grateful.
The members of St Mary’s Church Winter Shelter were extremely appreciative when our community delivered food and home baked soups and meals. “A huge thank you to South Hampstead Synagogue, it is so needed at this time to work together across our faith communities”.
The huge quantity of clothes are being despatched to Little Village, to JCore’s JUMP supporting young asylum seekers, Camden’s Shelter, and QCCA.
Thanks to our South Hampstead Cheder children for the beautiful cards for Israel, and toys for Camp Simcha.
The morning kicked off with a first for Mitzvah Day, our SHAC volunteers were twinned with ZSL Volunteers, learned all about the Zoo’s conservation work, and shared it with the public on the morning shift.
The middle of the day marked the important remembrance of our Jewish Ex-Service men and women at the AJEX Parade at the Cenotaph.
We rounded off the day with a special musical tea for young Israeli families in the area, not connected to Shul, offering them a space to feel the unique South Hampstead warmth – a truly heartfelt time together.
“Mitzvah Day is so poignant at the moment, and I was proud to be a Jew out in public and able to help others in this incredible way”
“Such an uplifting day to see such a positive response from the public, especially when we said we are from South Hampstead Synagogue collecting for Camden’s needy – so many were ready to help it was heart warming”,
“It’ so epic – I loved every minute of taking part!”
“We were out there spreading love and it really meant a lot, what a wonderful way to spend a day”
Thank you to everyone who has sent in photos, click here to view.
If you haven’t yet sent your photos please do so to ben@mitzvahday.org.uk
We will continue to add photos to the album as they come through.
Thank you South Hampstead!