A free service across the entire spectrum of the Jewish community.

The everyday burden of dealing with the practicalities of your household paperwork and bureaucracy can become intolerable in a time of crisis.

When you are feeling isolated, vulnerable, stressed or even your mental health affected. When you just can’t cope. When the simplest of administrative tasks feel insurmountable. Daily practicalities take a back seat and often leading to unwelcome, additional pressure and intrusion in what can feel a bureaucratic and impersonal world.

The Paperweight Trust was launched in 2010 to provide practical guidance and support to those in crisis in the Jewish Community.

The service we offer is cross-communal, offering services in-person across London, Manchester, Leeds and Gateshead, and anywhere in the UK over Zoom. Our clients range in age from their 20s to their 90s and all have found themselves in circumstances beyond their control and unable to cope with life’s daily ups and downs, particularly where organising their domestic affairs is concerned.

Paperweight offers time, guidance, confidentiality, experience, understanding of mental health challenges and a good deal of common sense. We will steer our clients towards independence and give them the confidence to carry on with their lives.  We will also endeavour to teach them how to avoid these pitfalls in the future and how to navigate their way through the bureaucratic maze.

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