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Facts & figures
- Our 2 Karten computer centres provide 3,840 hours of computer tuition each year to older people and those with physical disabilities
- We support and care for over 7,000 people every week
- Jewish Care will spend over £45m this year providing 70 different services to the community
- Over 1,500 candles are lit for Shabbat in a year throughout Jewish Care’s residential homes.
- Each year Jewish Care gives advice and support to over 500 people who are caring for a loved one
- 80,000 people a year attend our six community centres. These centres cost nearly £5m to run with only £400,000 being contributed by local authorities.
- We need to raise £15m from the community just to fund our day to day work
- Over 33,000 calls a year are received by our helpline, Jewish Care Direct, which offers advice, support and access to all our services
- Over 1,000 Chanukah presents are wrapped and given to the residents in our care homes each year
- Our social work and family support services cost £1.2 million in total. We receive a grant of £8k from Hertfordshire and a donation from the Lawson family of £100k per annum. Both amounts are towards the family support part - we do not receive any funding for social work
- Jewish Care distributes over 5,000 talking books each year to people who are visually impaired or unable to hold a book
- Over 100,000 talking books, newspapers and magazines are sent out to people with visual impairments every year.
- Jewish Care uses over 1,300 boxes of matzos and runs over 50 seders and mock seders each Pesach.
- Jewish Care uses nearly 3,000 bottles of kiddush wine each year and will serve over 12,000 doughnuts this Chanukah.
- Jewish Care will serve nearly 100,000 portions of chicken soup this year.
- Jewish Care will serve over two million cups of tea this year in its 70 centres and resources.
- Our home care team provides 45,000 hours of care a year to people in their own home. This service costs £944k a year to run and only half of this is funded by local government
- 75,000 hours of care a year is provided to people in their own homes. The service costs £1.1m to run and only £450,000 is funded by local government.
- There were over 70,000 attendances by older people at our many day centres last year
- 73% of our residents in our care homes are funded by their local authority, with an average shortfall of over £20k per year each.
- Over 150 people with mental health needs get support and advice and an opportunity to socialise at one of our 3 Centres for Wellbeing each week
- Jewish Care’s 3 dementia day centres were visited over 5,000 times last year. These centres cost over £705k and run with a deficit of £245k per annum.
Next event
Registration is now open for the community fundraiser
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Contact us
For more information please contact our helpline:
Jewish Care Direct:
020 8922 2000
Or email us directly on:
jewishcare@jcare.org
We'll be more than happy to help with your enquiry!