JDA - Fundraising

Hear! Hear! Committee Quiz Evening!
14 February 2010

To be held at the Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue in Norrice Lea. Click here for more information and download the application form.

Forest Friends Committee are having an evening of cabaret and dance to raise funds for the JDA on Sunday 31 January 2010

Please click here for further information

Calling all runners!
The next Maccabi Fun Run will take place on Sunday 23 May 2010

We would love to make this event more successful than ever. To join our team go to the Maccabi Fun Run website which is www.communityfunrun.org

This year there will be a kid's 1K run, so everyone can get involved. Please come along! For more information email Reva Kahn at reva@jda.dircon.co.uk or ring Reva on 020 8446 0502 (Tuesdays or Wednesdays only).

PAST EVENTS

HOLLYWOOD QUIZ HITS THE HEIGHTS!
November 2008

Guests

Nearly 200 Deaf, hearing and hard of hearing people came along to support the Hear!Hear! Committee's Hollywood Nights Quiz Evening on 23 November, raising a fantastic £11,000 for the Jewish Deaf Association.

The event was held at the Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue and the committee had decked out the hall with Hollywood posters and cutouts, glittering wall decorations and gold and black tableware. Even the table centerpieces were replicas of Hollywood film clappers, complete with strips of 'film'!

A lovely meal of cold meats and salads, followed by lemon tart, fresh fruit, coffee and sweets provided just the right 'brain food' as guests struggled with rounds on anything from 'Who Won The Oscar' , Sport, and General Knowledge to 'Who Am I?' and 'The Price is Right'.

Mira Goldberg made a moving appeal speech and the guests were generous in their response. The committee and the quiz masters - Quiz Knights - made sure that the quiz was accessible to everyone, by providing written question sheets for all and by not including any audio rounds. The JDA provided a palantypist for hard of hearing guests and Jo Meyer interpreted for the JDA members. There was a great atmosphere and everyone seemed to enjoy the event immensely.

Best of all, it finished on time ... but somehow the losing team managed to escape without coming up to receive their wooden spoons!

Sharon Graham

Maccabi Community Fun Run
Sunday 24 May 2009

The event was a big success for the JDA in a few ways. First of all, we managed to raise upwards of £8,000.

The run was also a great way of raising the profile of JDA in the public’s eye. Two pictures of our team appeared in the Jewish News.

It was very exciting that so many of us who hold the JDA dear to our hearts teamed up to make this a really great event. Among us were Board Members, Hear Hear Committee Members, JDA Staff, Children of staff, Parents of deaf children, Deaf and Deafblind members with Communicator Guides, and family and loved ones of the above! Click here for photos of the fun run!

Many thanks to Sharon Graham for setting up our stall, Jessie Jessel, Judith Morgan and daughter Deborah for manning the stall and Harvey Clements for taking pictures. Also, thanks to Edith and Maria for their special participation.

Everyone was a star!

I hope you will all put this event on your calendar for next year. It’s never too early to start training!

Reva Kahn