Club Nights
This report covers the 4 weeks from October 20th. Club has been running well and we have had many visits. To say we were closed for Chag Simchat Torah, that it was Bonfire night, 2 Speech Nights and various parent’s evenings we have had 833 visits.
Half term attracted some new members who had not realised what fabulous facilities we offer. They enjoyed projects varying from making radio programmes to Jewish based activities including cookery, art and music making. Our new members, leaders and volunteers are adding variety and excitement to our club nights.
Awards
We are so delighted to see more 16 to 18 year olds than previous years calling into club to either enjoy the facilities or help with junior activities. 2 of these volunteers were recognised by Ajex at The Memorial Service on November 11th. Hannah Schifildrin and Lauren Hamburg were given the Youth Volunteer Award this year for their continuing services at the Zone in sports and radio activities.
Karate
Many of our Karate Kids have been entered for their next belts – the colour Green. We wish them all luck as a very important “Master” visiting them from the South is assessing them.
Junior Football (Mini Maccabi)
Boys and Girls football continues to be successful and we have invited them all in on Wednesday 18th Nov to watch The England Vs Germany game on our Big Screen with older members.
Dinky Drama & Art
We have welcomed some new volunteers to this activity and are actively looking for more young budding artists, actors and actresses to join this session. If art or drama is something the young people in your family enjoy please feel free to bring them over. Every Wednesday at 4pm.
Culture
Poland trip planning is underway – 15 places booked. 5 more places available. The trip leaves February 15th . Asaf, our Shaliach, Adam from The Zone and Arik Hersh have joined forces to offer this trip. If you know any children 15 – 18 years old who would like to join us on the trip please get in touch.
Raina and Simon met with Rabbi Kleiman and representatives from Talmud Torah to plan a ‘Chanukah family day’ to be held at The Zone. This will be the first time The Zone and TT have joined forces to run an activity and we are very excited it is for Chanukah. Maybe all of us in the community will see the light and how wonderful it is when groups come together to celebrate.
The Maccabi Torch Relay will also be running Chanukah activities on December 8th at The Zone. Please come along to support our Israeli visitors.
Gymnastics
Estelle’s gym classes are full and we are delighted that Generation Zone, our Grandma’s committee are raising money at their next coffee morning towards new gym equipment. The older advanced class are going to be working towards entering competitions.
Intercity / Youth Movements
We hosted a fantastic intercity event organised by Adam Warner and Mark Fink from Habonim. Following a successful Summer, Habonim wanted to increase the momentum and develop the friendships between the children who had met on tour. Adam suggested a social event at The Zone and 55 14/15 year olds attended the very successful overnight event. We were told by youth in Manchester that they think our club is amazing and they wish they had a Zone in Manchester.
FZY have begun to use The Zone for Leadership training and we are delighted to welcome them to The Zone to run their activities. They do of course still meet in each other’s homes but the fact they have found the Zone a useful resource is great news for us. We welcome all youth movements to The Zone.
Leadership
A political themed session was held recently following the American Elections, which led onto all sorts of discussions about positive and negative influences, and people our young leaders are inspired by. There were some really interesting thoughts and we were very proud of young people’s input into the discussion. The discussion went from Barack Obama to Russell Brand,
Baby P, Duane Chambers and The Beckhams with many more besides. This led to discussing our own community leaders and why it is so important to get involved in the community from an early age and the responsibilities of community lay leadership. Whoever says that young people’s opinions don’t matter is so wrong. Our kids know what they are talking about!
Streetsound
Great work being done in Street Sound – budding new broadcasters and presenters attending all the time. We will shortly deliver a programme made by A level students to Radio Jcom to go on air and some of our 13/14 year olds made an advert in support of Zone member Andrew Abendstern who has been chosen to represent the UK basketball team at the Maccabiah Games and is looking for sponsorship. There is much more in the pipeline.
DanceAthon
Our booking forms are out! – please call The Zone if you think you can dance for an hour or more! An in-house fundraiser being organised by Adam and The Parents Committee; A 24hr non stop party involving our Young People; Toddlers to OAP’s, Volunteers and Staff. Event scheduled for Sunday 21st and Monday 22nd December – and will be part of our Chanukah programme.
Fashion & Culture
Did you know “Green is the New Black”? Well it is according to our fashion experts who spent time with leader Emma Charlton and youth volunteer
Ella Miller discussing, creating and then showing environmentally friendly fashion. This activity is of such great value as it questions the whole idea of fashion whilst incorporating art activity and discussions about different cultures including of course our very own.
Zone/JSOC
We were delighted to host our Shaliach and meet other UK Shlichim in order to develop relationships further. We also introduced Jsoc The Zone whose representatives loved it and if they can get the students to travel more then 10 minutes for a night with no beer will happily use our facility!
Café Chai
We are looking for volunteers to run Café Chai through the day for adults to come in for coffee and use our computer facilities. If you would like to run the café once a week/fortnightly or monthly please let us know.
One of our Grandparents would like to start a Jewish Book Club once a month at Café Chai to read books by Jewish Authors or with Jewish content. If you are interested or know anyone who may be please get in touch with us.
Mitzvah Day
The Zone was delighted to be a part of Mitzvah Day this year and we congratulate the organisers on a wonderful event. At The Zone we helped people in the community with computer problems and teaching them new internet skills. We also took a group of young people to help with gardening in The Queenshills.
Dates For Your Diary:
- Generation Zone Coffee Morning November 30th at 69 Sandmoor Lane call us for details.
- Maccabi Torch Relay – December 8th 6.30pm
- Chanukah Family Fun Day with Talmud Torah December 14th 11-2 – come and play Who wants to Be a Chanukah Millionaire!
- Chanukah Dance-a-thon Sunday Dec 21st – Mon Dec 22nd
- Poland Trip for 15 to 18’s – Feb 09 – Book now – 5 places left
- Spectacular Judean Revisited. The Judean Club Re-union. An event not to be missed – remembering all the way back through Street Lane to Barrack Road. Tickets only £12.50 – you can book yours now call 0113 2172532.
I hope you have enjoyed reading about our activities and plans.
We welcome your feedback and any suggestions you have.
Best wishes
Raina Sheaf
Chief Executive
The Zone
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