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Leeds Jewish community given £48k lifeline from city’s recovery fund
After 'months of financial uncertainty', city's Jewish Representative Council will collaborate with other faith and community partners in Yorkshire
Leeds Jewish Representative Council has been awarded £48,000 from Leeds City Council’s Community Recovery Fund to deliver a new programme focused on building relationships between communities across the region.
With more than £3 million of applications submitted, LJRC’s proposal was one of the five highest-scoring applications selected for funding.
The programme will see the community working alongside Leeds City Council, the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, West Yorkshire Police, Leeds Faith Forum and other faith and community partners to create a new Leeds Cohesion Action Framework.
In an email to supporters, LJRC described the award as “an important vote of confidence” in the role it can play in Leeds, and that it looks forward “to working with partners across the city to build stronger relationships, greater understanding and a more connected Leeds, while ensuring that the voice and experience of our Jewish community is part of that conversation.”
Susie Gordon, Leeds Jewish Representative Council chief executive told Jewish News: “Without this funding we would have been facing the very real possibility of having to wind up operations. The award gives us some much-needed breathing space and, importantly, the opportunity to work through the longer-term questions about what the LJRC should look like and how it can be financially sustainable in the future.”
The organisation, which is more than 150 years old, is the umbrella group for more than 50 groups and 8,000 Jewish community members in and around Leeds and Yorkshire.
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