Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis has described a major volunteer project, linked with Coronation celebrations, as “a source of inspiration and hope”, and has urged people to join it wherever possible.
The Big Help Out is one of the official projects of the forthcoming Coronation Weekend, and is an initiative aiming to promote, champion and showcase, volunteering. Building on the volunteer phenomenon seen during the pandemic, it aims to inspire a new generation of volunteers, by making it easy for everyone to recognise opportunities and get involved.
Chief Rabbi Mirvis joined the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and other faith and community leaders, to visit a homelessness charity in London, The Passage, to encourage their communities — and the nation as a whole — to take part in the Big Help Out, whose main focus will be on the Coronation Bank Holiday, Monday May 8. At The Passage, the group was due tohelp sort out donated clothing, and serve food to the charity’s clients.
Support for the Big Help Out has come from all major UK faith communities, and supportive statements have been issued by the Dean of Westminster Abbey, David Hoyle, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols and Government Minister for Faith Communities, Baroness Scott of Bybrook.
