Help us to reach our £2m campaign target
People we support, their families and staff are becoming Champions to help us achieve our ambitious £2m target in this year’s Matched Funding Campaign. It actually costs £18m to run our services and for £4m of that, we’re relying on the generosity of our community. We’re depending on our Champions to raise £2million from this […]
Work on the horizon with new employment workshops
Employment workshops are to start at Kisharon Langdon to help people with learning disabilities to find work. The first will focus on job searching and completing job applications, CVs and writing cover letters, while the second will focus on customer service skills, the expectations of employers and work etiquette. One of the workshops will run every […]
Bursting with pride as Kisharon Langdon stages production of Annie
Annie was the hottest ticket in town earlier this month as Kisharon Langdon members acted and sang their hearts out in a performance of the foot-tapping musical. The stars of the show – Zoe May played Annie, Max Lewis was Mrs Hannigan – and cast members Gabs, Faith, Benjamin, Danni, Ophir and Billie all deserved a […]
Purim – it’s coming soon
Purim started weeks ago at Kisharon Langdon where people we support have been shopping, weighing and packing and learning other key job skills. Thanks to their hard graft, Kisharon Langdon will be selling Purim breakfast mishloach manot containing boxes of cereal, a tea sachet, mini jam, cupcake and orange juice all beautifully wrapped. This will […]
Our 2024 matched funding campaign: Just do it – for us!
“If Kisharon Langdon wasn’t around, the amazing support and the community Gabs lives in would not exist…then what?” says Kisharon Langdon Trustee Paul Joseph. Kisharon Langdon gave Paul’s younger sister Gabs, now 37, a life of her own from the moment she became a Member at 16. “Gabs used to sit in our parents’ kitchen and […]
Raise funds for us!
Individuals supported by Kisharon Langdon are reaping the rewards of the merger – a wider range of services for all. It’s still early days and already so much good has been achieved. But these services come at a cost. Since August, Kisharon Langdon has been responsible for 150 adults in supported living, 300 plus children […]
Best place to thaw
Childs Hill Library has become a warm hub for the winter, offering the local community a cosy and welcoming space and reducing the need for costly heating at home. Whenever the library is open, anyone can come inside for a hot drink or a steaming mug of hot soup. They’ll find companionship, and more, on […]
JVN award for the team behind the merger
Winners, the merger team, worked tirelessly to bring together two organisations with a different cultural and religious ethos and geographic footprints. Left: Kisharon Langdon Trustees and members of the merger team: Nigel Henry, Philip Goldberg, Claire Lemer and Andrew Loftus. Right: Nicola Toyer, Head of Charities, Wealth and Investment UK at Investec, who presented the […]
Chanukah giving
A consignment of 200 paint-your-own dreidel packs have been assembled by the enterprise team of people with learning disabilities, and more supplies are on standby if stock runs out. The idea came from the enterprise team themselves who routinely put together a product to sell at the Kisharon Langdon Gift and Homeware Store for the […]
