The Board of Deputies is calling on student volunteers to back its Shoah Survivor Support Project.

The organisation has described the project as a great opportunity for university and secondary school students who would like to support Holocaust survivors who are not engaged with the UK Jewish community.

The BoD Shoah Survivor project would provide them with “life enhancing grants and other social support,” a spokeswoman confirmed.

The project, which is funded by the Six Point Foundation, was welcomed by Jewish Care, the largest communal welfare organisation which has a dedicated Holocaust Survivors’ Centre (HSC) in Hendon, north-west London.

Neil Taylor, Jewish Care’s director of care and community services, said it would complement, and not overlap, work already carried out by the HSC, adding that: “They will reach other survivors who are not connected to Jewish Care.”

“We have a duty to the survivor community to do all we can to reach out and support them,” he said. “They are an aging community with complex needs and together we should do all we can to ensure we meet their needs.”

He added: “We will continue to do all we can to work in partnership with other organisations providing support for survivors to avoid duplication and provide a wide range of support services to meet their current and future needs”.