The Future is Bright: The new generation of young trustees taking the community by storm!
Did you know that only 6% of Jewish charity trustees* are aged 35 or under? Join us at this networking drinks event to meet and hear from some of our most outstanding and talented young trustees who are bucking the trend, and the Young Trustees Movement.
Strategic AI Adoption: Driving Change and Growth - for Managers/Decision Makers
As a leader in the not-for-profit sector, harnessing the power of AI responsibly is critical to achieving your organisation's mission and driving meaningful impact. This full-day program combines an expert-led morning session with a practical afternoon workshop to equip you with the knowledge, tools, and techniques needed to define and implement an actionable AI adoption strategy.
Through strategic discussions and hands-on exercises, you’ll learn how to align AI with your mission, address ethical and governance challenges, and build a roadmap to scale impactful initiatives.
AI Foundations: Skills, Tools and Techniques - for Non Managers/Decision Makers
AI technologies are transforming how organisations operate, and as an individual contributor in the not-for-profit sector, building foundational knowledge and practical skills in AI is essential. This workshop is designed to help you understand how to use AI tools, apply them responsibly, and deliver immediate value to your organisation's mission.
Jewish Community Professionals’ Conference 2025
Join us on Thursday 22nd May, for our annual Jewish Community Professionals’ Conference. The event is aimed at community professionals at any stage of their career seeking leadership development.
Facilitating and Chairing Effective Meetings with Confidence
Leaders today understand that executive presence, active listening, and self-awareness of the impact their behaviour and emotions have on others are essential skills to have.
Confidence in leaders’ ability to facilitate and chair effective meetings can be derailed when they are put on the spot, by one aspect of communication that often goes unrecognised - the “non-verbals.”
Join this Follow the Leader session to learn how to be the most engaging and authentic Facilitator/Chair.
Dealing with Conflict
Very few people seek out conflict and most of us avoid it like the plague. Yet without it, we risk keeping everything so “safe” that we never reach our full potential.
Healthy conflict can help us explore an issue more fully, embrace a range of approaches and make better decisions. The first step to better conflict management is to examine and adjust your attitude. Then it’s all about practising skills that lead to positive, assertive behaviour where hopefully, everyone wins.
You just have to be brave and take the first steps – this session will help you to do just that.
Measuring and Evaluating Your Impact
This half-day Follow the Leader session is for those who are keen to know more on the subject of evaluation and learning. The focus is on making evaluation proportionate, both to your resources and to the people you work with. It takes a practical, structured approach to helping you decide what to measure and why, and how to measure that as effectively and efficiently as possible; with a particular focus on using surveys.
Fundraising Forum
Hear from the Fundraising Regulator as they join us for this special forum where they will discuss their recently launched new code of practice.
How to be the Person Everyone Wants on their Team
In a world driven by people power, some people stand out. You know that person who walks into the room (virtual or real) and you just think, “You! We want you!” You don’t even know their skills or experience, but they have a vibe that puts them in demand. What’s their secret? This workshop will let you in on all the secrets…
Managing Change and Dealing with Resistance
This engaging session is an introduction to strategies to improve collaboration with your manager, enhance communication, and tackle workplace challenges effectively. Interactive elements include role-play exercises, group discussions, and real-world case studies, ensuring practical takeaways you can use straight away.
Marketing & Comms Forum
In this interactive session, Josh Gaventa (Account Manager at 8original) will focus on the art of mastering social media storytelling, from how to define your audience and story to how to make a digital difference.
JLC’s New International Women’s Day Conference 2025
Join us this International Women’s Day on Thursday 6th March 2025 for our newly designed, full-day conference and hear from one of the UKs most well known and successful businesswomen: Linda Plant (The Apprentice).
Managing Upwards
This engaging session is an introduction to strategies to improve collaboration with your manager, enhance communication, and tackle workplace challenges effectively. Interactive elements include role-play exercises, group discussions, and real-world case studies, ensuring practical takeaways you can use straight away.
Fundraising Forum
Join us for a forum session focused on how we can better use AI to enhance our fundraising methods. We will be joined by AI expert Levi Goldgrab who will share his knowledge and encourage a wider conversation about your hopes and concerns around AI in fundraising.
Adam Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) Applications NOW OPEN
Applications for the Adam Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) are now OPEN until Friday 28th February. The ASLP is Lead’s long-established programme for emerging lay and professional leaders in the UK Jewish community. Hear from participants and communal leaders and programme alumni on the impact of the programme.
Would you like to join the ASLP 2025-26? Find out more.
JLC’s Chanukiah back in Trafalgar Square over Chanukah
The JLC is proud to bring back the iconic Chanukiah at the heart of London to mark this festival, as well as lighting up the landmark lastminute.com London Eye.
March Against Antisemitism 2024
The JLC is proud to support CAA’s March Against Antisemitism in Central London on Sunday, 8th December.
Regional Professionals’ Conference
Following on from the success of our 2024 London event, we are delighted to be hosting our Manchester event on Thursday 5th December 2024. The event is aimed at community professionals at any stage of their career.
Mitzvah Day 2024
The JLC is proud to support Mitzvah Day on Sunday, 24 November. Find out more about how you can get involved.
Follow the Leader - Measuring and Evaluating Your Impact (Copy)
The JLC is proud to be a partner in the cross-communal JWA Shabbat on 22-23 November! This year’s theme is Myth vs Reality - find out more.
Follow the Leader - Measuring and Evaluating Your Impact
Join us on Thursday 21 November from 9.30-12.30, for a session facilitated by Elliot Trevithick from NPC on measuring and evaluating your impact.
One-minute silence to commemorate October 7th
Join us for one-minute of silence on Monday, October 7th at 11.00am.
Oct 7th Commemorative Weekend
In partnership with the Board of Deputies, UJIA, the Embassy of Israel London and others, we will be hosting a commemorative weekend to mark the one-year anniversary of October 7th. Please save the date and watch our pages for more details soon.
Trustees’ Conference
Our annual Jewish Community Trustees’ Conference is back online next week! Join us Thursday, 19 September from 6-9pm.
Antisemitism in Sport & Society
Hear from our CEO Claudia Mendoza on Shaare Zedek UK’s Antisemitism in Sport & Society panel discussion.
Community Briefing
We invite members of the community to join us for a collective update on current events in partnership with communal organisations.
Employee Engagement Survey
We are delighted to partner with Leading Edge again to bring the second annual survey of the UK Jewish charitable sector. If you're a registered Jewish charity with more than 4 employees, and keen to improve your workplace culture, click here to learn more.
Jewish Community Professionals’ Conference 2024
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Chen G. Schimmel October 7th Exhibition
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Jewish Community Trustees' Conference - Regional
The Trustee's Conference, held in partnership with the Jewish Volunteering Network, is an opportunity for Trustees of all communal organisations, small, medium and large, to come together and learn from experts and their fellow peers. We are delighted to run this conference in partnership with the Jewish Volunteering Network.
This event was originally scheduled to take place at the end of 2023, but was postponed due to the situation in Israel. We are delighted to have now rescheduled and can confirm the new date for the regional conference is Thursday 9th May 2024.
Vigil for the Hostages - Marking Six Months and Counting Since Oct 7th
At 6pm on Tuesday April 9th we will gather in Central London for a mass vigil for the 134 men, women and children who still remain in captivity, held hostage by Hamas for over six months since the Oct 7th massacre.
Jewish Community Trustees' Conference - London
The Trustee's Conference, held in partnership with the Jewish Volunteering Network, is an opportunity for Trustees of all communal organisations, small, medium and large, to come together and learn from experts and their fellow peers. We are delighted to run this conference in partnership with the Jewish Volunteering Network.
This event was originally scheduled to take place at the end of 2023, but was postponed due to the situation in Israel. We are delighted to have now rescheduled and can confirm the new date for the London conference is Thursday 28th March 2024.
SOLD OUT Follow the Leader: Project Management (FACE TO FACE WORKSHOP)
This half-day face to face workshop is for people who have to manage a project as part of their role. It will teach you everything you need to know about setting up and managing a successful project. We invite you to bring anything you are working on so you can apply the theory.
Follow the Leader - Project Management - In Person (Fully Booked)
This half-day face to face workshop is for people who have to manage a project as part of their role. It will teach you everything you need to know about setting up and managing a successful project. We invite you to bring anything you are working on so you can apply the theory.
This session is now fully booked, to join the waiting list please complete this form.
Trustee Development Programme - Safeguarding for Charity Trustees
In this informative session, held in partnership with the Jewish Volunteering Network, we will take a look at Safeguarding for charity trustees where participants will delve into crucial areas of the topic. The discussion will look at what a trustees' legal obligations are and the Charity Commission's safeguarding expectations whilst also look at how charities can develop and implement required policies and procedures. This session will also draw on insights from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), and explore the lessons learnt. Safer recruitment practices, including the significance of DBS checks and eligibility, will also be highlighted. Through interactive case studies, attendees will examine real instances of abuse within the charity sector and explore preventive measures. The session aims to equip trustees with practical knowledge and will also provide guidance on additional resources to enhance safeguarding practices.
Follow the Leader - Courageous Conversations - Online (Fully Booked)
The forever changing role of the middle manager puts you in many situations where you need to have crucial conversations with those ‘below’ you those ‘above' you as well as your peers. The complexity of some of the issues you deal with alongside the changing power dynamics, depending on the role you are fulfilling at the time, requires multiple perspectives and a deep level of self awareness as well as the skills to say the right things in the moment.
This session is now fully booked. Please contact Joanne@thejlc.org for details on our next planned session.
International Women's Day 2024
The JLC and Lead are once again delighted to be hosting an event to mark International Women’s Day 2024. We are delighted to be delivering this in partnership with Jewish Women’s Aid, KeshetUK and Maccabi GB. This years theme is ‘Inspiring Inclusivity’ and we have a host of sessions for you to join on Thursday 7th March 2024. You can view the full programme here with speakers set to be announced in due course. Please note we encourage all staff members to join, irrespective of their gender and job role.
Ticket prices are £15 for JLC members and £20 for non-members
Follow the Leader - Diversity and Inclusion - Online
Although most people see the benefits of a having a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment, some lack the understanding and confidence to be proactive and play a positive role in fostering such a working environment.