Day of Choice 2023
The international Day of Choice is an annual event, which takes place every 27th October, to raise awareness of the issues facing people who leave ultra-Orthodox communities across the world.
For the Day of Choice 2023, we have made a short film explaining what we do and celebrating the achievements of our members. You can see the film here.
Hackney publish Investigation into unregistered educational settings
In preparation for its meeting on Monday 15 January 2018, the Children and Young People Scrutiny Commission published its report last Friday. You can read our response here
On the BBC Sunday programme, Chris Kennedy, chair of Hackney Council’s Children and Young People’s Scrutiny Commission gave an interview which you can hear here.
Healthy Relationship Workshops
Professionals ran two workshops for members enabling participants to discuss relationship issues in a safe environment, to examine personal interactions and develop confidence and self esteem.
Read what one of the participants wrote here.
Manchester Transgender Judgment - GesherEU Press Release
Following the publication of the Judgment in the case where the transgender father sought face to face contact with his children that still reside in the North Manchester ultra-orthodox Jewish community, GesherEU published the following press release.
The Stamford Hill £1m fund raising event
In August 2016 a fund raising even in Stamford Hill aimed to raise £1m to enable the Charedi community fight legal cases where they think children are at risk of being removed from the community by one of their parents. See Jewish Chronical Report. Despite this, recently released Family Court Judgments show that the Judge expects the Charedi community to support the children "to understand that they will inevitably have these different experiences in their lives with their father [who has left the community] and to be accepting rather than rejecting as a consequence. They need the [Charedi] community to recognise and acknowledge the importance of their father's role in their lives".
Our Specialist Volunteers
We have the services of a social worker with experience within the family court system and family solicitors in London and Manchester with whom members can talk informally.
