Article by Hayley Cregor, The Jewish Chronicle – 14 October 2026
The number of people turning to the Jewish community’s leading frontline support service for help with debt, financial hardship and legal difficulties has almost doubled in four years, with middle-aged adults among those increasingly struggling to make ends meet.
New figures from the Paperweight Trust, released to coincide with Challenge Poverty Week, reveal that the charity supported a record 2,005 clients between August 2025 and July 2026, compared with 1,004 four years earlier.
