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A home for disabled children is to be built in Stamford Hill following the purchase of a £2 million property.

February 12, 2009 10:08
An artist’s impression of how the Bayis Sheli home will look

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Leon Symons,

Leon Symons

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A 12-bedroom home primarily for children with severe disabilities is to be built in Stamford Hill following the purchase of a £2 million property.

New charity Bayis Sheli is taking charge of the project, which is backed by the Interlink Foundation, the umbrella organisation for the Charedi voluntary sector.

Interlink helped to secure more than £3 million in funding from Futurebuilders England, a government investment programme. The Charedi community will have to raise at least another £1 million towards furnishing and running costs and a fundraising drive is under way.

The project has its roots in Beth Hayeled, a children’s respite charity that ceased operations shortly after its founders, Rabbi Avraham and Yudit Mendelson, emigrated to Israel in 2000. Its former respite care home in Allerton Road is the property purchased for the new facility. The intention is to provide both respite and residential care. Interlink’s Chaya Spitz said Bayis Sheli was founded by Leah Stern and Sophie Bernstein, mothers of disabled children. “Leah’s daughter Yitty needed full-time residential care. Sophie’s son Simcha has Down’s syndrome.