For those of you who were unable to attend our online LJRC AGM on Sunday, 25th April, here are the highlights:
- We welcomed Simon Myerson as our new Chairman, in this newly-created role, Simon will oversee the overall running of the LJRC, focussing on best practice, governance and community strategy
- We praised the efforts of the community’s organisations, including professional staff, lay leaders and volunteers throughout the pandemic
- We set out the LJRC’s key strategic goals and showcased a series of new projects and initiatives aimed at benefiting the community for the next two years, all of which is being funded by a successful Lottery bid. This includes:
- an extensive training programme for current and potential leaders and volunteers
- an upgraded interactive community website
- a number of new projects aimed at building a more sustainable future for Leeds’s Jewish community. As part of this three new roles are to be created; an online engagement officer, a community engagement officer and a marketing and communications officer
- Together with members of Brodetsky Primary School, our ongoing work with EFI (Educating for Impact, a European-wide initiative), has recently led to:
- the creation of a new Northern School of Jewish Studies. This new ground breaking initiative will be based at Brodetsky Primary School and will see accredited training for Jewish Studies teachers from across the North of England.
- the appointment of our community’s first Jewish Education Outreach Officer, Naomi Goldman, who for the next two years, will provide Leeds’s educational provision by enhancing peoples’ connection to Judaism.
After what has arguably been the most difficult year of our time, we have learned that we can still be a community that is not only supportive, but also resilient and exceptional. This has been largely down to working together with our partner organisations and we wanted to say a genuine and heartfelt thank you to all of our community leaders, staff, carers and volunteers for ensuring this pandemic didn’t bring everything to a complete standstill. Without a doubt, the role of the LJRC within the community has changed significantly over the past few years and as an organisation, we have adapted to meet the community’s ever-evolving needs to ensure that we can have a strong and resilient community for the future.
If you would like to support our work, you can either become an LJRC patron and / or sponsor. If this is of interest please get in touch.
Susie on behalf of LJRC