About evolve:
Find out more about evolve
Find out more about evolve
Mission Statement
Our Vision
To create a volunteering journey that embraces Jewish young people aged 8-25, enabling them to fully engage in meaningful social action and become active citizens in their community.
What is evolve?
evolve is JLGB’s response to the ever-changing needs of young Jewish volunteers. For the first time, evolve brings together all key stakeholders from across the community to ensure that social action becomes more accessible and rewarding for Jewish young people than ever before.
What qualifications can I get?
14+ OCN accredited Training
Bespoke, flexible and adaptable: JLGB is an approved provider of Open College Network credit-based training accreditation. If your charity, business, school or organisation offers training to young people, we can turn it into a nationally recognised programme of accreditation, and help you to develop training that is boosting young people’s potential and employability.
We also run two training weekends per year, where young people aged 14 and up can gain OCN nationally recognised qualifications in boosting their skills in everything from leadership to event management.
Other awards are being added all the time, to ensure that Jewish young people have the greatest access to all youth achievement awards and qualifications.
To sign up a young person to an award, or to find out how your organisation can get young people recognition and awards, contact the evolve team today! If you know a young person who volunteers, you can help them to get the most out of their experience and fulfil their personal potential – encourage them to get involved, get recognised and get ahead.
If you have any questions, get in touch with the evolve team at JLGB. E-mail evolve@jlgb.org or call 020 8989 5743.
What awards are there?
The Chief Rabbi's Kindness Challenge for year groups 3-6
The award emphasises the importance of social action and volunteering within the community.
To achieve the award, children will need to volunteer 15 ‘gemuilut hasadim’ (acts of loving kindness) have at least three in each category:
- In my school.
- In my community.
- In my family.
The Yoni Jesner Award for year groups 7-8
The Yoni Jesner Award was set up in memory of Yoni Jesner, a young man committed to volunteering, and aims to inspire young people to do more and care more like Yoni did. It rewards young people for time they spend making a difference to their community. If you are in school years 7 and 8 you can take part in the award by volunteering 20 hours of your time, making a difference to your community throughout the year. You could help out at school, at your synagogue, in your community or beyond! We work with hundreds of organisations and charities and can help to match you up with a social action project.
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award for year groups 9+
The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, or DofE, is the world's leading youth achievement award, giving young people between the ages of 14 and 24. The DofE is very highly regarded by unviersities and employers, and is often the first thing they will look for on your UCAS form or CV.
The vInspired Award for year groups 12+
The vInspired volunteering award is nationally recognised by UCAS and is a great addition to young people's CV. evolve Volunteering Fairs allow local charities to showcase their student-friendly volunteering opportunities through the evolve platform. Through skills and interest matching, young people pick any number of volunteering opportunities to complete their award for either 10, 50 or 100 hours.
Where can I take part?
evolve encompasses all aspects of your community meaning that you will be able to take part at a whole host of locations.
Examples of where you can get involved and start your volunteering journey include:
1. JLGB
2. Youth group
3. School
4. Synagogue
5. Charity
6. Mitzvah Day
The following opportunities on this page are all volunteering opportunities. Whilst you may want to apply to these volunteering opportunities, please note these do not contribute towards the ORT JUMP programme. To complete your ORT JUMP programme you must attend 4 mentoring sessions, which will be assigned to you. |
Welcome to evolve's COVID-19 emergency opportunity page!
During these unprecedented times finding volunteering may be difficult, so below is a curated list of COVID-19 friendly opportunities that you are able to complete remotely! To apply to any of our volunteering opportunities make sure to sign up to properly track your volunteering journey and log your volunteering hours for national award progress. Happy volunteering! The evolve team |
Your account is still being approved by our team and will be ready for use soon. You will receive an email once it has been approved.
For enquiries please contact us at hello@jlgb.org |
You can not log your sessions until you have been assigned to a mentoring opportunity. You will receive an email once you have been matched with a mentor.
For enquiries please contact us at hello@jlgb.org |
Thank you for submitting this opportunity. Our team will review it and approve of it as soon as possible.
For enquiries please contact us at hello@jlgb.org |
Congratulations! You've logged 20 hours for your Yoni Jesner Award. There's just one more step you need to do to complete the Award. There are 4 quick questions that we would like to ask you about your experience. Please click 'Next' to continue… |
Mazel Tov you have completed the Yoni Jesner 20 Award! This is a fantastic achievement and you should be very proud of yourself! We look forward to celebrating with you at our national award ceremony where you will receive your certificate. More information will be revealed in the coming months so watch this space… This is not the end; log 30 more hours of volunteering and you will be awarded the Yoni Jesner 50 Award! |
Congratulations! You've logged 50 hours for your Yoni Jesner Award. There's just one more step you need to do to complete the Award. There are 4 quick questions that we would like to ask you about your experience. Please click 'Next' to continue… |
Mazel Tov you have completed the Yoni Jesner 50 Award! This is a fantastic achievement and you should be very proud of yourself! We look forward to celebrating with you at our National Award Ceremony where you will receive your certificate. More information will be revealed in the coming months so watch this space… This is not the end; log 50 more hours of volunteering and you will be awarded the Yoni Jesner 100 Award! |
A huge Mazel Tov on completing your Yoni Jesner 100 award! This is the most impressive award of all and you should be very proud of yourself for achieving this! We look forward to celebrating with you at our National Award Ceremony where you will receive your certificate. More information will be revealed in the coming months so watch this space… This is not the end, your next award is just around the corner; keep volunteering and learn new skills by signing up to Bronze DofE in September. |
You have now completed your ORT JUMP Programme! Please complete the following essay to finalise your progress. You have successfully completed 4 mentoring sessions. This is a great achievement and you will have made a big impact on your mentee. WELL DONE! The evolve team. |
Your Volunteering hours has been approved. Please click on the button below to download your certificate. Click here to see instructions on how to upload your certificate to eDofE |
Step 1. Log in to edofe.org Step 2. Click on Volunteering section Step 3. Click on manage evidence Step 4. Add photo or file evidence of certificate Step 5. Select your leader Step 6. Click save and submit After you have completed all of the above steps, click on "select for assessor report." This notifies your leader that this section is ready for approval. |
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