Families First: Food & Care

Aim: Providing 50 Orthodox Jewish Salford families with weekly Kosher food and hygiene packages to reduce poverty, improve health, restore hope.

Jewish Ladies Aid Society
Serving Salford Orthodox Jewish community
Registered Charity Number: 1001412

Project Summary: “Healthy Homes, Nourished Families”
Jewish Ladies Aid Society will deliver 12 months of tailored food and hygiene support to 50 vulnerable Orthodox Jewish families in Salford 7. Each family will receive a weekly culturally appropriate food and hygiene package, helping them meet their basic needs with dignity and stability.
Over the course of the year, we will distribute 600 essential food and hygiene packages.

This vital support directly addresses poverty, food insecurity, poor living conditions, and health inequality, while helping families maintain a clean, safe, and nourishing home environment—a critical foundation for long-term wellbeing.

Why This Project Is Needed:
Our users—primarily from the Orthodox Jewish community in Salford—face unique and complex challenges, including:

• Poverty and severe cost-of-living pressures, especially due to the higher cost of Kosher food and goods
• Social isolation and limited access to mainstream support services
• Language barriers, as many older adults and parents only speak Yiddish
• Cultural sensitivities that prevent engagement with standard food banks and services
• Mental health challenges, including anxiety, depression, and loneliness, worsened by financial stress and lack of culturally appropriate support

Salford City Council Key Priorities Addressed:

• ✅ Tackling Poverty and Inequality: Delivering targeted support to those excluded from mainstream services
• ✅ A Good Home for All: Supplying hygiene items to promote safe, clean, and healthy living conditions
• ✅ Healthy Lives and Quality Care for All: Improving nutritional and mental health through access to culturally appropriate food and basic household care

What Each Weekly Package Includes:
Each of the 600 weekly packages (at £50 each) will contain:

• 🥫 Culturally appropriate Kosher food staples: tinned vegetables, pasta, rice, eggs, potatoes, pulses
• ❄️ Fresh and frozen items: fruit, chicken or fish, margarine
• 🧴 Essential hygiene products: soap, shampoo, toothpaste, sanitary products, nappies, and baby wipes
• 🍼 Infant essentials (where needed): formula milk and baby food

Who Will Benefit:

• 50 low-income Orthodox Jewish families in Salford 7
• Identified by referral partners, synagogues, schools, and support workers
• Including single-parent households, families with young children, those experiencing illness, or recent job loss
• Many of these families cannot access mainstream food banks due to cultural and religious dietary needs

Why This Matters
Our community tells us:

“Kosher food is expensive — we go without to pay rent.”
“I can’t afford nappies or wipes every week. I reuse what I can.”
 “It’s humiliating not to be able to provide basics for my children.”

This project removes shame, lifts pressure, and restores dignity—helping families focus on rebuilding their lives instead of just surviving.

How the Project Works:

• 🧺 Packages assembled weekly by trained community volunteers
• 📦 Collection or discreet delivery available to suit family circumstances
• 🔗 Families signposted to additional support (e.g., Paperweight for benefits or housing help) as needed

Funding Goal

• £50 per package × 12 weeks = £600 per family per year
• 50 families × £600 = £30,000 total target
• 600 culturally tailored food & hygiene packages delivered over the year

How You Can Help:

We invite individuals, businesses, and community supporters to:

• 🥘 Sponsor a Week – £50
• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Sponsor a Family – £600
• 💝 Give What You Can – Every pound supports a vulnerable household

Your contribution helps ensure that 50 families can maintain a safe, clean, and nourished home during times of crisis.

Promotion and Partnerships:
We will reach families through:

• Community partners, schools, and welfare organisations
• Referrals from local synagogues, GPs, and benefits advisors
• Posters in community hubs and Orthodox WhatsApp networks

A Healthier, Fairer Salford Starts Here
By delivering 600 culturally appropriate food and hygiene packages, this project will:

• Prevent hunger and poor health
• Promote dignity, safety, and stability in the home
• Reduce inequality and social isolation
• Build resilience across our community — one family at a time

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 5th August 2025 at 8:36pm