Our 24 hour HELPLINE
Tel: 020 8455 0040 or click here to email

Norrice Lea Helpline is a programme run by trained volunteers for our community. We are offering a confidential befriending service for the sick, hospitalised and housebound.

The telephone will be operating 24 hours every day. All messages will be received by voicemail, and your call will be returned the same day and will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

SICK, ELDERLY & HOSPITALITY

• Befriending service
• Home visits
• Simple shopping & errands
• Hospital visiting
• Invitations for Shabbat & Yomtov
  

Chairman: Avromi Freilich (our Chazan)

All our volunteers, currently a team of 20+, have been trained by Jewish Care and know how to handle difficulties with sensitivity and understanding. If you think you know someone who could use some help, and who may not wish to ask for it, please let us know.

Equally, we need more volunteers - perhaps to run errands, perhaps to invite someone for Shabbat lunch, perhaps to accompany an elderly person to shul, or just to ring and check that someone is all right.

We have been asked by a local residence for older people:

Several ladies currently take part in a rota to light the candles for the residents on a Friday night.  Parallel to that, a rota is needed of gentlemen to make kiddush for the residents.  It requires coming in to the Home and making kiddush in the ground floor dining room at about 5.50 p.m.

If there are any of our members who live near the end of the Bishops Ave, the house committee would be very grateful if they might be willing to volunteer.  The more gentlemen they have, the better the rota. 

Currently the ladies only have to light candles once every 7 weeks or so. 

We already have a lady volunteer to organise this rota.  Some of the young men in our community might be interested as part of their community service participation, which many of them are required to do through their schools.

For further information, read the report in the 2006 Spring edition of the Norrice Leader.