Spotlight Projects
These Projects are facilitated and prepared by Mitzvah Day. They are ready to do, can be done anywhere in the world and "How To" sheets with full instructions are available.
Join a team visiting a residential care home to bring smiles to the residents. Sing, read, perform or join in whatever needs doing.
A wide range of projects for different types of volunteers.
Stand outside a local supermarket and encourage shoppers to purchase extra items which are then donated to a charity of your choice.
Collect new and good-as-new items for one of a list of key charities.
Host a lunch or tea on site for a particular local group needing care e.g. senior citizens, children with learning disabilities or refugees.
Visit residents of a mental health ward and bring them a little joy.
Support the AJEX parade.
Makeover a room or space in a hospice/drop in centre/care home/children's home/refuge.
Make your own project supporting a cause that matters to your community and supporting a charity you care about. There are thousands you can support.
Grow your own mint in pots for use in your organisation's social events. Alternatively, grow parsley for your seder plate, chives for your cream cheese bagels, or rosemary for your roast potatoes. Mitzvah Day will send each community two mint plants to get you started. More are available for purchase.
Donate your 'lunch' - any fresh sandwiches or fruit - to a local homeless shelter at lunchtime.
Work to improve the environment through local initiatives, including cemetery clean-ups, work on city farms and parks.
Plant trees in Heartwood Forest, St Albans, or apply for a tree-planting pack from the Woodland Trust to plant trees anywhere in the country in an area of public benefit.
Organise a crafts, baking or cooking projects to produce items which can be donated to a local cause, for example decorated gift boxes for children.
