POMEGRANATE
The specific focus of our activity is vital welfare to thousands of desperately vulnerable, elderly Jewish men and women in Eastern Europe - providing food, medicines, fuel and essential home care, often the difference between life and death.
Launched in March 2008, Pomegranate was formed to engage more women in support of World Jewish Relief (WJR).
The specific focus of our activity is vital welfare to thousands of desperately vulnerable, elderly Jewish men and women in Eastern Europe - providing food, medicines, fuel and essential home care, often the difference between life and death.
In fundraising for such critical work, we create enjoyable opportunities to come together, so all of Pomegranate's activities are based around our principles of contributing and connecting. These include popular evening workshops, our new hands-on PomPacks activity at the WJR warehouse and a monthly walking group, we have hundreds of women participating in our hugely successful PomKnits initiative, and there are always exciting new ideas in the pipeline.
The scale of the need is enormous and we can each help WJR make a real difference in the lives of people who literally have nowhere else to turn. Any of the elderly people we assist could be our parents or grandparents, and every one of them deserves our support.
If you would like to know more, get involved or have an idea for an activity or event that you and your friends would enjoy, please contact Dani Linder in the WJR office on 020 8736 1250 or email us at pomegranate@wjr.org.uk
Pomegranate Annual Fundraising Lunch 2012
At Pomegranate's 5th Annual Lunch held on 15th March, Nicola Mendelsohn, (advertising supremo, mother of four and charity campaigner) was our inspiring guest speaker for a 22-strong audience. An amazing £80,000 was raised to help fund WJR's activities supporting elderly people in Eastern Europe.
Proceeds from the event will help fund WJR’s elderly welfare programmes, providing essential, life-saving aid to the most vulnerable and isolated members of the Jewish community across Eastern Europe. Many lives have already been lost in the region due to the exceptionally cold winter this year, so the aid WJR is providing to these elderly men and women is needed more urgently now than ever.
Nicola Mendelsohn praised Pomegranate and the work of WJR as she gave a call to action to all women in the Jewish community, saying, “Pomegranate and World Jewish Relief remind me that there is more we can do together than we can do alone. Pomegranate’s fundraising activities are innovative and inspiring, you do everything with a twist, from PomKnits to PomWalks to PomPacking in the warehouse; you are feminine but not frail."
Upcoming Dates for Ongoing Activities
These include our new hands-on PomPacks activity at the WJR warehouse, a monthly walking group - and we have hundreds of women participating in our hugely successful PomKnits initiative.
PomPacks - Come do something simple and practical that makes a real difference to someone's life and is actually fun too. Join us for our new Pomegranate packing sessions at WJR's Neasden warehouse.
Thanks to the success of WJR's Operation Winter Survival, a mountain of good quality second-hand winter clothes has been donated to WJR and needs to be sorted and packed as soon as possible to help thousands of desperately vulnerable Jewish men, women and children survive long, bitter winters across Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
Dates for the next sessions will be posted soon. Meanwhile, you can contact Lisa Harrison via WJR on 020 8736 1250 to get packing!
PomWalks - Join us as we walk, chat and raise money for WJR. We always meet in the car park at Kenwood at 9am and more dates for 2012 will be announced soon. For more information, contact Gillian Seigal via the WJR office on 020 8736 1250.
Do come along and bring a friend or a dog!
PomKnits - Hundreds of women have already become part of our special activity knitting squares that are sewn into blankets and sent on a regular basis to the elderly men and women whom we support in Eastern Europe.
Besides keeping them warm during the cold winter, these blankets are a wonderful way to let people know that they haven't been forgotten.
Please see the separate PomKnits 'Knitting Communities Together' page for more details and knitting instructions, as well as up to date tallies of the numbers of blankets already completed!
Ways to Give
Every pound you donate helps us to transform lives, so however you choose to give it will make a real difference.
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WJR Films
Watch these films to see how important WJR's work is to the people we support and find out more about what we do.
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