Transforming Jewish life

The JCC aims to provide a way into, or back into, active Jewish life for all of London’s Jewish community. It welcomes, it includes, it reaches out. We have already organised an inspiring programme of events that stands alongside the best London has to offer, welcoming everyone in the Jewish community, irrespective of affiliation or level of observance.

We have a community, but nowhere to get together. A building will allow us to create a sense of place. It will provide a physical focus, a centre, a heart, a hub.

So, we’re planning the construction of a magnificent new 80,000 square foot community centre on the Finchley Road to open, we hope, in 2011. It will have a multi- purpose performance space and rehearsal rooms, a library, community meeting rooms, health and fitness facilities, a nursery, classrooms, restaurants and a host of other amenities. The place will be buzzing with Jewish life, 100 hours a week.

The building will change the image we have of our community. It will give us a sense of confidence; it will be a catalyst for new levels of activity and engagement; and it will inspire a new sense of what is possible for us to achieve together. There will be a public exhibition of the plans for the JCC building in the early summer. Check back here for details.