WHAT IS THE CAC?
The CAC was established in 1955 as a charitable trust and funding body, providing grant aid to help sustain an effective youth provision for young Jewish people in their leisure time based in London and the Home Counties. It comprises a dedicated team of lay leaders and youth advisors.
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WHAT ARE OUR MAIN PRIORITIES
Our main priority is to support and improve youth activities for young Jewish people in a variety of settings. We aim to fulfill this priority through the provision of professional advice and grant support for a variety of projects for staffing, equipment, programmes and capital projects.
We have always recognized the changing face of the Jewish community and are continuously examining our funding policies in order to meet the new challenges. An example of this is our decision, sometime ago, to support youth organisations in meeting the employment costs of youth workers.
WHAT DO WE DO?
We fund activities, programmes, staffing and equipment.
Our aim is to improve and support the Jewish youth work field.
WHAT AGE DO WE FUND?
We support activities for children and young people up to the age of 21
OBJECTS OF THE FUND
(as quoted from our constitution)
The objects of the Committee are to assist in the provision within London and Home Counties area of facilities for leisure time recreational activities for young persons of the Jewish faith with the object of improving for them their conditions of life and in furtherance of those objects the Committee shall, by means of grants, promote and assist in such cases as they think fit: -
a) Any Jewish youth club which is a registered charity established and operating within the London and Home Counties area and which is an organisation having as its only or main object the improvement of the conditions of life for young persons of the Jewish faith by making available to them such facilities as aforesaid.
b) Such other organisations as the Committee may think fit being organisations which are registered charities operating within the London and the Home Counties area and established for purposes which are intended to benefit young persons of the Jewish faith.
ACHIEVEMENTS TO DATE
Over the years we have provided grants, totalling many hundreds of thousands of pounds to hundreds of organisations, including:
- Jewish youth centres
- Synagogue based youth clubs
- Holiday schemes
- Special needs projects
- Educational conferences and events
- Leadership programmes
- Israel Experience scholarships
- After school clubs
- Residential centres
- Youth arts projects
- Volunteering initiatives
At the JVN (Jewish Volunteering Network) Awards Ceremony on 09 June 2010 at the London Jewish Cultural Centre, Sarah Lasher received the CAC award for her outstanding contribution to volunteering, from Henry Minkoff (CAC Chairman) and newsreader Martin Lewis.
THE NEW SCHOOL AND SHULS INITIATIVE
In February 2011 we launched a new initiative aiming to support schools in their provision of Lunchtime clubs and for the shuls in the provision of Saturday afternoon programmes for young people. We believe that both these programmes have a valuable role in enriching the educational and recreational experience of the young people who choose to participate in them.
As Patron of The Children's Aid Committee, The Chief Rabbi (pictured here with CAC Chairman Henry Minkoff) is excited about our new funding programme called "The Schools & Shuls Initiative".
This new programme is aimed at financially supporting lunchtime and after school clubs in schools and Shabbat afternoon clubs and activities in shuls.
Schools & Shuls will be able to apply for a grant of up to £1000 (which they will have to match) to help towards the costs of running these programmes and The Children's Aid Committee have allocated £100,000 over 4 years to this project.
WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO?
In order to apply for funding, you have to download and complete an application form with the necessary enclosures by clicking on the relevant link.
However, as a word of caution, you must already have a Charity number in order for us to process your details.
PROFESSIONAL ADVICE
For information and advice regarding the suitability of your project proposal for funding, please contact our professional adviser, Asher Eisen at asher@eisen.plus.com
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