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The Board Plan 2024-2027 sets out our main plan of action for the triennium. It is grouped into five key priorities:
- Fight Antisemitism
- Stand Up For Peace and Security in Israel and the Middle East
- Defend Our Religious Freedoms
- Make Our Community More United, Inclusive, and Outward-Looking
- Celebrate Our Faith, Heritage, and Culture as British Jews
Below are just some of the Board of Deputies activities and impact in 2025 (click the links below for more information). For up-to-date information on the Board of Deputies' work, please subscribe to our weekly newsletter.
Fight antisemitism
- Collaborated with Jewish community partners to present the Government with priorities for a comprehensive strategy to tackle antisemitism.
- Brought faiths and Government together at an Interfaith Solidarity Event to propose action for a more United Kingdom.
- Published landmark Commission on Antisemitism chaired by Lord John Mann and Dame Penny Mordaunt, calling on the arts, educators, public services and trade unions to do more to tackle antisemitism.
- Published a survey finding nearly two-thirds of Jewish employees have encountered antisemitism in the workplace.
- Successfully campaigned for police intervention on disruptive protests in Swiss Cottage.
- Ran a digital Yom HaShoah 2025 campaign featuring Holocaust Survivors.
Stand up for Peace and Security in Israel and the Middle East
- Produced and launched landmark resource to ensure that the 7th October atrocities are documented, remembered, and taught today and for future generations.
- Led cross-community coalition to organise a major public solidarity event in Westminster marking two years since October 7.
- After a coordinated campaign with community partners, welcomed government commitment for legal changes to ensure ‘Cumulative Impact’ is taken into account in policing protests.
- Secured the removal of a divisive Israel-Palestine resource from the Times Education Supplement (TES) website.
- Engaged with Israeli political leaders across the spectrum, including organising a roundtable for community leaders with Israeli opposition leader Yair Golan.
- Continued weekly vigils for hostages at Westminster until the last living hostages were released.
Defend our Religious Freedoms
- Led a delegation of Jewish and Muslim burial practitioners to meet Minister for Justice Alex Davies-Jones to discuss national standards in the coroner service and faith requirements in burial.
- Hosted first ever BoD@Work conference to support Jewish professionals in the workplace.
- Launched latest edition of the Employer’s Guide to Judaism, a unique resource to protect Jewish rights.
- Served as the secretariat to Milah UK, defending the rights of male circumcision.
Make our community More United, Inclusive and Outward-Looking
- Worked with Jewish communities of France and Germany to launch the new JE3 Alliance.
- Trained and empowered Deputies through the first ever Parliamentary Advocacy Day and Civic Shabbat events across the country.
- Connected Jews in every part of the country including a regional weekend in Brighton and plenaries in Manchester.
- Elected first gender-balanced Executive in the Board’s 265-year history.
- Announced plans for a Commission on Disability Inclusion in the Jewish community, to launch in 2026.
- Established an Optimistic Alliance together with British Muslims, with ongoing working groups and a planned schedule of regional events.
- Supported the teaching of Judaism in non-Jewish schools through Jewish Living Online, a free digital education resource (with ADL), and our touring Jewish Living Exhibition.
Celebrate Our Faith, Heritage, and Culture as British Jews
- Announced the launch of Britain’s first ever Jewish Culture Month, taking place in Sivan (May–June) 2026.
- Established the Jewish heritage plaque scheme and unveiled the first plaque.
- Brought together politicians from across the spectrum to support the Jewish community at a Parliamentary Chanukah Reception.
- Brought major faiths together for a Board of Deputies Interfaith Seder.