HOLT Conference 2023

The Proud Places: Reconnecting Young Lives conference was a great success this year. We had a brilliant turn out for our excellent speakers and lots of young people spoke from the podium about their amazing experiences within the programme.

“Very memorable speakers including the children who have benefitted so much and brought such great insight about the far reaching impact their experiences of Proud Places have both on themselves and on their wider circle of peers, family and friends.”

Many thanks to all who came and made it so fantastic!

A selection of images from the day below:

HOLT's Fountain Projects in the Guardian

"The climate crisis can look dauntingly colossal, but the plastic disaster is easier to solve"

Polly Toynbee makes the powerful case for bringing back public water fountains, click to read the full story below.

Leonard Montefiore Drinking Fountain Project

One of the last fragments of historic Jewish East End has been preserved. A Victorian memorial to a significant figure in women’s emancipation in the 19th century - Leonard Montefiore - has been restored and brought to life again as a working drinking fountain. HOLT worked with Tower Hamlets Council and the Jewish East End Celebration Society.

HOLT Director Nicola Stacey and JEECS Chairman Clive Bettington gave speeches at its unveiling and Rabbi Julia Neuberger said Kaddish with Rabbi Dr Andrew Goldstein. Professor Michael Berkowitz and Rabbi Goldstein also gave talks on the great Jewish families and their contribution to Victorian social reform. It was a fantastic day, enhanced with wonderful pastries and bagels by Rinkoff's bakery!

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