We are all volunteers and there are lots of opportunities to get involved, with existing your skills or learning new ones!
Get involved
In Shul
Please help us ensure we get a weekday minyan even if only once or twice per month (please contact Jon Marx to join our minyan WhatsApp group)…
We look for volunteers each week to read special prayers and dedications in English We also rely on volunteer wardens to call page numbers and make announcements (contact Anthony Robinson).
We are always seeking volunteers to Leyen or read from the Torah, even if just for one Aliyah, during one of our regular community leyening shabbatot and it’s a wonderful feeling of achievement. No previous experience is required and full training is offered for those with reasonably fluent Hebrew reading who can spare the time for the preparation (contact Andrew Kelion).
There is also always opportunity to help out our warden / gabbai and we currently have opportunities for assistant wardens to work along side our senior warden, Anthony Robinson. Full training can be provided for standing Sigun (spotting mistakes and prompting for the Torah reading), call-ups, mishebeirachs (this requires reasonably fluent Hebrew reading skills).
Practical
Members are also invited to
- join our security rota (contact Andrew Morris) and to
- help with the weekly Kiddush rota (contact Denise Stern)
Closer to home
But there are also things we need help with that can be done from the comfort of your own home
- making welfare phone calls (contact Pauline Binstock)
- organising shul social events (contact Ingrid Segal)
- writing articles for the shul magazine Nu? (contact Ian Paterson)
- Writing posts for this website (contact Lester Wagman)
Out and about
We always need volunteers willing to help out with our everyday welfare and outreach work
- organising and helping out with our popular community teas
- visiting the lonely and sick
- helping with our regular collections for All Aboard and Kisharon Langdon and the other charity appeals we support
- watering and maintaining our community garden
- supporting the bereaved and making up the numbers at shivas and levayahs to show our community really cares
We also put on an important outreach programme each year for Holocaust Memorial Day and have exciting and worthwhile projects going on throughout the year for Mitzvah Day.