Photo credits (Left to right:) Jewish Deaf Association, Israeli Dance Institute, Jami, Jewish Child’s Day, Friends of Lubavitch Scotland.

Jewish people are renowned for being generous when it comes to charitable giving. Many try to make a special point of supporting Jewish charities, believing that if they don’t,  no-one else will. Legacies and bequests are a valuable form of income for many charities and donors often rely on solicitors when choosing voluntary organisations to benefit from bequests in their wills – or to make donations in their lifetimes.

The Jewish Charity Guide is the only publication that specifically lists around 350 UK registered Jewish charities serving the Jewish community at home, in Israel and throughout the world.

The printed copy of the Jewish Charity Guide is still in circulation but from January 2026 we will be going DIGITAL ONLY!  The online version will be completely redesigned to make it easier to navigate and research Jewish charities.  It will still be updated regularly but will feature more information and articles about its advertisers and they will still be categorised under subject headings to make research and selection even faster. 

From January onwards we will be sending a link to the Guide to around 2700 contacts, including solicitors’ practices in Jewish conurbations, synagogues and communal organisations, as well as Jewish philanthropists and administrators of charitable trusts. The Guide is also a vital communal reference tool for people needing to contact Jewish charities for help, or to offer donations, voluntary services, or unwanted goods for charity shops and redistribution to people in need, so we will be publicising our new digital status to the Community so that they are in the loop.

OUR DONATE BUTTON SERVICE WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE FROM JANUARY 2026 as we find that donors now prefer to research online then click straight through to the charity or charities of their choice – and we encourage them to do so.

After 33 years of publication, this is definitely not goodbye but just a change of format, mainly due to the huge rise in mailing costs.  We hope you will stay with us and look forward to hearing from any new charity that wishes to be listed on our database.

Sharon Graham & Alan Gold, Joint Editors