Volunteers

If you have a talent, skill or knowledge on a specific topic, we would love to have you come and present it or perform for our residents. We are also open to ideas any ideas the community might have to offer. If any of these options appeal to you please contact Yali Friedman on 011 532 9648 or on yalif@jhbchev.co.za

Sandringham Gardens and Our Parents Home have beautiful weekday and Shabbat minyanim. Please join us at the service to add to the atmosphere. No RSVP required. Davening times Weekday Shachrit: 7am |Weekday Mincha & Maariv: 5pm* Rosh Chodesh: 6:45am | Shabbat & Yomtov Shachrit: 8:30 am Shabbat and Yomtov Mincha: 4:30 pm* | Shabbat Maariv: 5:30 pm* * times change according to season If this option appeals to you please contact Yali Friedman on 011 532 9648 or yalif@jhbchev.co.za

Sandringham Garden’s residents love seeing young faces and having a chat during lunch. If you’re a high school student we’d love you to come during school holidays and help set up, serve and chat to the residents. We can take up to 10 students a day. Be at the kitchen at 12:15pm. Please sign up in advance. Lunch ends by 13:30pm. If this option appeals to you please contact Yali Friedman on 011 532 9648 or yalif@jhbchev.co.za

These are held on Sunday and Thursday evenings at 6.30pm at Sandringham Gardens or Our Parents Home. You can make them special by choosing the movie and providing snacks. You can create a poster to be put up at the home announcing the event.   Please give us 2 weeks’ notice and ensure all snacks have a Beth Din sticker. If this option appeals to you please contact Yali Friedman on 011 532 9648 or yalif@jhbchev.co.za

Bring your creativity to Sandringham Gardens or Our Parents Home and come decorate the dining rooms to enhance lunch/supper time. Pick a theme and go wild with serviettes, flowers, table cloths, wall decorations etc. We can even try match the menu of the meal to your theme. Come make a regular mealtime something special! If this option appeals to you please contact Yali Friedman on 011 532 9648 or yalif@jhbchev.co.za

Each of our homes has a monthly birthday party for residents born in that month, only at Our Parents Home the parties are every 3 months rather than monthly.  Make it extra special with birthday cards, decorations and snacks. Please deliver to our (Revenue) offices at the Chev the day before the birthday party is to take place. If this option appeals to you please contact Yali Friedman on 011 532 9648 or yalif@jhbchev.co.za

A challah bake is a fun way to connect with residents and enhance their Shabbos. Just bring dough from a kosher bakery to either Sandringham Gardens, Our Parents Home or Selwyn Segal. Challah bakes are held on Thursday afternoons between 2pm and 4pm at Sandringham Gardens and Our Parents Home.  Please give us two weeks notice. If this option appeals to you please contact Yali Friedman on 011 532 9648 or yalif@jhbchev.co.za  

Our residents love knitting and go through a ton of wool. Help give them hours of enjoyment and productivity by arranging a wool drive, asking friends and family to donate wool or money for wool. Call us to arrange a time to drop off your wool and receive a certificate! If this options appeal to you please contact Yali Friedman on 011 532 9648 or yalif@jhbchev.co.za

If you want to get involved in outreach, we have an incredible programme on how to build healthy relationships that we facilitate with grade 7 and 9 pupils at underprivileged schools.  If this options appeal to you please contact please contact Talya on 011 532 9678 or talyab@jhbchev.co.za

If you’re big and strong please join our dynamic team of men who help pack up people’s houses before they move into our home. This is an emotional experience for many so you’ll need a big and strong heart too! If this options appeal to you please contact please contact Talya on +27115329678 or talyab@jhbchev.co.za

if you’re a woman with life experience and are keen to mentor and support single moms, this is for you. If this options appeal to you please contact please contact Tova on +27115329678 or talyab@jhbchev.co.za

Adopt and befriend a Bobba or Zaida in any of our facilities, arrange to visit them weekly and enrich both your lives. Many of our residents have family living overseas who are unable to visit often. We’ll pair you with a resident (or two). Who knows, you might become besties! If this options appeal to you please contact please contact Tayla on +27115329678 or talyab@jhbchev.co.za