TUESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2026
GROSVENOR HOUSE HOTEL
Message from the Chairman
A warm welcome and thank you for joining us today for the 38th Jewish Care annual business lunch and a huge thank you to our main sponsor, the Topland Group, along with our associate sponsor Allsop LLP.
To be able to put on an event every year for 38 years is a remarkable feat. However, it does feel that each year the importance and the relevance of the funds, which we hope you will donate, become greater and greater. Jewish Care is the largest health and social care organisation serving the Jewish community in London and the Southeast. With nine care homes, four retirement living schemes, five community centres, three dementia day centres, a specialist service for Holocaust survivors, social work teams, Meals on Wheels, Befriending, Jami’s mental health services and more, Jewish Care touches the lives of 12,000 people every week. Most of Jewish Care’s services receive no government funding, and each year we need to raise £20 million just to keep our services running, plus an additional £1.1 million to cover the impact of the National Insurance increase, simply to continue providing the care we already offer. While Jewish Care continues to explore cost-efficient ways to manage its financial challenges, it is the support from our community and beyond that will really enable us to provide such critical services, so thank you for being here today.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank our two special guest speakers, Lord Wolfson and James Harding. We are incredibly privileged to have them with us today and we look forward to hearing them shortly in conversation.
Each year, an award is given in memory of Philip Greenwold to an outstanding individual who has made a significant contribution to others. I am delighted to congratulate Hannah Lewis MBE, this year’s most inspirational and worthy award winner. Hannah is a Holocaust survivor, educator, and longstanding supporter of Jewish Care.
As Chairman of the lunch, I must say thank you to all the members of my committee for their support and hard work in making this event happen. There are a lot of logistics that go into this day, and I would like to pay tribute to the professionalism of the Jewish Care team, who deal with all we throw at them with good humour and a total focus on making it happen. We would like to thank our headline sponsor, the Topland Group, associate sponsor Allsop and other event sponsors, BKL, Cervidae, Together Money, Dentons, Howden, JLL and Silverstream. And finally, on behalf of the 12,000 lives touched by Jewish Care every week, thank you for attending. We couldn’t do what we do without you. If you would like to get involved in any way, then we’d be delighted to have you on board, so please be in touch.
David Pollock
Chairman of Jewish Care’s Topland Group Business Lunch Committee
Message from Topland Group
Sol and Eddie Zakay and Topland Group are proud to reaffirm our sponsorship of Jewish Care’s Business Lunch and are delighted to welcome Allsop as our Associate Sponsor once again.
Our commitment to charitable causes is a cornerstone of our values, and we are honoured to include our association with Jewish Care among our patronage and support of charities and worthwhile causes.
This year marks Topland Group’s 17th year of sponsorship, and we are delighted to continue our
Message from Allsop
Allsop is extremely proud to be the Associate Sponsor of the 2026 Jewish Care Business Lunch, which recognises the exceptional work carried out by both individuals and organisations within the community.
partnership with Jewish Care and support their commendable work. Our collaboration goes beyond financial assistance; it is a tribute to, and a chance to thank, all those who generously dedicate their time and enable Jewish Care to continue its remarkable farreaching and extensive care programs.
We extend our heartfelt congratulations to Hannah Lewis MBE the recipient of this year’s Topland Group Business Lunch Award, dedicated to the memory of Philip Greenwold. Thank you.
The Topland Group Business Lunch Award in memory
of Philip Greenwold
Philip Greenwold joined the Pentland Business Luncheon Committee in 1990, three years after its inception. He was always responsible for securing the award winner for the luncheon. Not only was he a Patron and an active supporter of Jewish Care, but he was also a member of Jewish Care’s Property Committee, selflessly offering his expert advice and support. He was involved on a dayto-day basis with Jewish Care and with numerous other causes within the Jewish community.
While Philip was very successful in his business dealings, he was known especially for his honesty and integrity. He also had a great sense of fun that
permeated his work and was a keen supporter of Arsenal FC. As so many of us aspire to do, Philip managed to strike a successful balance between work and family time and it is tragic that someone that had so much to give died so young. He is greatly missed by everyone who knew him.
The committee felt it only right to commemorate Philip’s outstanding contribution to this event, to Jewish Care and to the community. In 2006, it was decided that the award should be renamed in his memory, and it is now known as ‘The Topland Group Business Lunch Award in memory of Philip Greenwold’.
Award Winner Hannah Lewis MBE
Hannah Lewis MBE is a Holocaust survivor, educator, and longstanding supporter of Jewish Care. A driving force behind Jewish Care’s Woman of Distinction Committee, Hannah founded the original Woman of Distinction fundraising lunch for the Jewish Blind Society (now part of Jewish Care), which has since become a key event in the organisation’s calendar, celebrating its 40th lunch this year.
Hannah has supported major philanthropic initiatives for many years and was awarded an MBE for her exceptional contribution to Holocaust education in 2018.
Born on 1st of June 1937: Włodawa, Poland, Hannah was the only child of a respected and prosperous family. Her early years were happy and secure – until the Nazi occupation changed everything. As war engulfed Poland, Włodawa filled with Jewish refugees fleeing larger cities, with many finding safety in her family home.
By 1943 the Germans began rounding up the Jews of Włodawa for deportation to Sobibór Extermination Camp and to other labour camps. In 1943, Hannah and her family were seized and forcibly marched to Adampol – a slave labour subcamp of Sobibór, a few miles away from her hometown. Over the following months, most of her relatives were deported and did not survive. Her father and his cousin managed to escape and join the partisans, leaving Hannah and her mother alone in the camp.
During the final harsh winter of occupation, Hannah fell severely ill. Her mother refused to leave her side, despite warnings of imminent German killing raids. The next morning, Hannah’s mother was taken and shot, which Hannah witnessed. Hannah – alone, ill, and starving – survived until she was liberated by a Soviet soldier who found her in a trench.
After the war, her father miraculously located her, and the two lived briefly in Łódź. In 1949, at the age of ten and unable to speak English, Hannah was brought to Britain by Basil Feldman (later Lord Feldman) to live with relatives in London. Her father later emigrated to Israel in 1953. Hannah married in 1961 and built a loving family with four children and eight grandchildren.
Despite all she endured, Hannah chose a life of purpose, compassion, and service – committed to giving back.
For more than 30 years, Hannah has travelled the UK with Holocaust Educational Trust, sharing her testimony with thousands of students and adults. She has spoken in schools, public institutions, and on national television, ensuring the lessons of the Holocaust are never forgotten. She has served on the boards of both the Holocaust Educational Trust and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, shaping national remembrance and education.
Hannah also chaired the Lord Mayor’s Appeal in 1988/99, raising over £5 million to create a leukaemia centre at Hammersmith Hospital.
She also founded the celebrated “Who’s Cooking Dinner?” fundraising initiative for the Leukaemia Fund, which has raised more than £7 million.
Hannah Lewis MBE continues to be an inspiration who has given much to the community and we are delighted to celebrate her achievements with this award.
Guest Speakers
Lord Wolfson
Lord Wolfson graduated with a degree in Law from Trinity College, Cambridge. He started working for Next in 1991 as a Sales Assistant and joined the Board as Sales and Marketing Director in 1997. In 1999 he was made Managing Director and was appointed Chief Executive in August 2001. Since he became Chief Executive Next shares have outperformed the FTSE 100 index by more than 500%.
James Harding
James Harding is Editor-in-Chief of The Observer and founder of Tortoise Media. He previously served as Director of News and Current Affairs at the BBC from 2012 to 2018. He was Editor of The Times from 2007 to 2012, winning Newspaper of the Year in two of the five years he edited the paper. He was previously The Times’s Business Editor, having joined from The Financial Times where he worked as Washington Bureau Chief, Media Editor, and China Correspondent – opening the paper’s bureau in
Lord Wolfson has always had an active interest in economics, history and politics and was created a Peer in May 2010.
Shanghai in 1996, the first European newspaper to do so since the 1949 revolution.
Harding is the author of Alpha Dogs – How Political Spin Became a Global Business and co-presented ‘On Background’ on the BBC World Service.
Where your money is going
This year, Jewish Care must raise over £20 million just to keep our services running, plus an additional £1.1million to cover the impact of the National Insurance increase, simply to continue providing the care we already offer. Rising costs and increased demand mean we are facing one of the most challenging times in our history.
Many of our vital services, including our Holocaust Survivors’ Centre, Dementia Day and Community Centres, Helpline, and Social Work and Community Support services, receive no government funding at all and rely entirely on the generosity of our community. Your donation will ensure that we can continue to touch the lives of the 12,000 people each week through our vital services.
Jewish Care’s three dementia day centres provide stimulating, therapeutic and fully dementia-friendly activities, including creative sessions, music, movement, even table tennis, ensuring everyone can take part and enjoy a varied, meaningful day. Members can share Shabbat and festivals, build friendships and find comfort in a caring community.
The centres are also a vital service for family carers, giving them valuable time to rest, run essential errands or attend appointments that would otherwise be difficult. Your donation helps ensure that those living with dementia, and the families who care for them, receive the connection, respite and support they need.
Across our community, we are facing an unprecedented mental health crisis. We live in a time when being Jewish carries increasing complexity and, at times, vulnerability. More people are feeling anxious, isolated and unsure, and turning to Jami’s mental health services for support, understanding and a sense of belonging. With anxiety, depression, loneliness and trauma rising sharply, these challenges are becoming overwhelming for many and the need for these services has never been greater.
Without the kind generosity of people like you, we couldn’t continue to be there for everyone who needs us. Thank you.
Patrons list
4 Daughters Charitable Trust
Mandy & Bradley Abkin
Anthony Abrahams
Lisa & Paul Althasen
Ruth & Henry Amar
René & Lance Anisfeld
Argo Real Estate Limited
Edward Azouz
Leo Baeck Housing Association
Limited
Adrienne Baker
The Paul Balint Charitable Trust
Rebecca & Ed Barnett
BDO LLP
Julia & Alan Bekhor
Lesley & Michael Bennett
Jonathan Bergwerk
The Pauline and Harold Berman
Charitable Trust
Benson Black Memorial Trust
Carolyn & Harry Black
Debra & Neil Blair
Nicola & Julian Blake
Su & Michael Blake
Sir Victor & Lady Blank
Linda & Tony Bloom MBE
The Patsy Bloom Charitable Trust
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Gabrielle & Nigel Bobroff
The Bogod Family
The Sir Clive Bourne Family Trust
Bettina & Michael Bradfield
Lisa & Darren Braham
The Brecher Family
Peggy Brett
Consuelo & Anthony Brooke
Doreen Brown
Howard & Lesley Burkeman
Paula & Daren Burney
Susan & John Burns
Jackie Caring
Richard Caring
Anzia & Paul Charney
Mr Alex Chesterman OBE & Mrs
Angela Chesterman
Sir Trevor Chinn CVO & Lady
Susan Chinn CBE
Wendy & Andrew Cohen
Coller Family Foundation
Simone & Simon Collins
Rhona & Simon Conway
The Harold & Daphne Cooper
Charitable Trust
Marcus Cooper
Sarah & Jason Cooper
The Sidney & Elizabeth Corob
Charitable Trust
Malcolm Dagul
David, Michael & Elie Dangoor
Libby & Simon Dangoor
Manny & Brigitta Davidson
Charitable Foundation
Sir Mick & Lady Barbara Davis
Beryl & Neil Davis
Rita & Stanley Davis
Jessica de Rothschild
Jonathan Dennis
Richard Desmond
Marion & Anthony Diner
Sir Harry Djanogly CBE
Dollond Charitable Trust
Sir Lloyd Dorfman CVO CBE &
Lady Sarah Dorfman OBE
Dame Vivien Duffield DBE
Wendy & Michael Dunitz
Ruth & Martin Dunitz
NJD Charitable Trust
Graham Edwards & Georgina
Black
The Esfandi Charitable Foundation
Marli & David Esterkin
The Feldman Family
Beverley & Jonathan Feuer
Jacqueline & Steven Fine
Lord & Lady Fink
The Fisch Family
S and V Fobel
Claire & Michael Francies
Sara & Adam Franks
Michèle & Keith Freedman
Suzanne & Simon Friend
Shoshana Lyn Fuss
Galloway & Mann families
Jackie & Michael Gee
The Nigel Gee Foundation
Harold & Jacqui Gittelmon
B & P Glasser Charitable Trust
Lynn & Stuart Glyn
Pierrette & Michael Goddard
Michelle & Paul Godfrey
Alison & Avi Goldberg
Claire & Daniel Goldberg
Carolyn & Michael Goldhill
Norma & Alan Goldman
Family Goldmeier
Debra & Mark Gold
Adele & Michael Goldstein
Ann & Ronnie Goldstein
Edna & Peter Goldstein
Sharon & Jonathan Goldstein
Susan Charles & Richard Goldstein
Nicola & Vincent Goldstein
Jordan Max Goodman Charitable Trust
Adrian Gordon
Marcus Gordon Family Graff Foundation
Talya & Grant Gordon
Green/Lawson Family
Ruth & Tony Green
Tina & Philip Green
Naomi & Jeffrey Greenwood
Richard Grosse
Gundle Philanthropic Trust
Rochelle & Nicholas Hai
The Hammerson Family
Caroline & Allen Hanouka
The Richard Harris Charitable
Trust
Mr Jonathan D Harris CBE & Mrs
Jeniffer Harris
Lara & Jason Harris
The Maurice Hatter Foundation
Lady Morven Heller
Susan & Andrew Heller
Dr Terry & Mr John Heller
Michelle & Philip Hertz
Reva & Nigel Henry
Philip Hillman Charitable
Foundation
Mr Ian Karet OBE & Dr Sara
Hoffbrand
R S Hoffman
Harry Hyman
Sir George Iacobescu CBE & Lady Gabriela Iacobescu
The J Isaacs Charitable Trust
Mandy & Tim Isaacs
Louise & Alan Jacobs
Susie & Barry Jacobs
The Jaffe Family
Susan & Stephen James
JOGRAM
Abbie & Mark Joseph
Helene & Clive Kahn
Lord & Lady Kalms MBE
The Kaye Family
The Michael and Ilse Katz
Foundation
Ann & Charles Kessler
The Klein Family
Klein Family Foundation
Dawn & Michael Koby
Gerald Kraftman
Lauren & Michael Kraftman
The Kyte Charitable Trust
The Lambert Charitable Trust
Anita & Brook Land
Zara Land
Alfred Landecker Foundation
(made possible by Peter Harf)
Jackie & Melvin Lawson
Shirley Lawson
Laren & Mandell Families
Antonia & Peter Leach
Jane & Brian Leaver
The Lee Family
Morris Leigh Foundation
The Kennedy Leigh Charitable Trust
Sharon & Henry Lennard
The Leslau Family
Lord & Lady Levy
The Ralph Levy Charitable Company
Dr Julian Lew KC & Mrs Margot
Lew
Alicia & Steven Lewis
Hannah & David Lewis
Michelle & Steven Lewis
Lewis, Press & Feinstein Families
Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust
David and Ruth Lewis Family
Charitable Trust
Clare & Brian Linden
Lord & Lady Livingston
The Locker Foundation
The Loftus Family
Gemma & Simon Lyons
The Betty and Aubrey Lynes
Family
Lynne & Brian Magnus
Paula Marber
Lorraine & Geoffrey Margolis
Belinda Marks
Rosemary Marks
Selina & David Marks
The Alan Mattey Charitable Trust
Mr David Meller CBE & Mrs
Wendy Meller
Jacqueline & Michael Meller
Alison & Mitchell Mendel
Lord Mendelsohn & Lady
Mendelsohn CBE
Claire & David Menton
Jane & David Metter
Karen & Alex Midgen
Milton Damerel Trust
Elizabeth & Ashley Mitchell
Diana & Allan Morgenthau
The Brian & Jill Moss Charitable Trust
Paul & Charlotte Munford
Marion & Guy Naggar
Elizabeth & Tristan Nagler
The Rosemarie Nathanson
Charitable Trust
Nirvana Charitable Trust
Sue & Leo Noé – Rachel
Charitable Trust
Louise & Michael Norton
Jennifer & Robert Ohrenstein
Peter Oppenheimer & Joanna
Myers
Dr Karen Grossmark and Mr
Jonny Myers
Sonja & Tony Page
Heidi & James Paradise
Susan & David Pearl
Pears Foundation
Gail & Alan Philipp
Sara & Paul Phillips
Sue & David Pollock
Caroline & Lee Portnoi
Dr Simone Shelley & Michael
Posner
Janis & Barry Prince & Family
Alyson & Richard Rains
The Ramar Charitable Settlement
Caroline & Justin Randall
The Raven Charitable Trust
Regal London
Clive Reid
The Reuben Foundation
The Rind Foundation
Bianca & Stuart Roden
Rachel & Ben Rogoff
The Gerald and Gail Ronson
Family Foundation
Marcelle & Jonathan Rose
Stephen & Roberta Rosefield
Cecil Rosen Foundation
Ruth & David Rosenberg
Sue & Elliot Rosenberg
The Rosenfeld Charitable Trust
Rosetrees
Lynne & Nigel Ross
The Rubin Foundation
Professor Mike Rubinstein & Mrs
Barbara Rubinstein
Marc Rubinstein & Judith
Vandervelde
Lindsey & Gary Sacks
Edmond J Safra Philanthropic Foundation
Nina & Roy Sandler
Sonia & Roy Saunders
Isabelle & Ivor Seddon
The Selig Charitable Trust
Bari & Alan Shaffran
Elena & Eli Shahmoon
Jane & Peter Shasha
KC Shasha Charitable Foundation
Loraine & Jeff Shear
David & Sandra Sheinman
Wendy Sheridan
Simon & Julia Sherrard
The Archie Sherman Charitable
Trust
Melanie & Michael Sherwood
Charitable Foundation
Shoresh Charitable Trust (Dr
Ruth Borchard Gift)
James Shulman
The Slavin Foundation
Elizabeth & Nigel Sloam
The Sobell Foundation
Sir Harry Solomon
Angela & Harvey Soning
Sir Martin Sorrell
Sandra & Harold Sorsky
The Spalter Family
Sasha & Marcus Sperber
Denise & Ivor Spiro
Rosalyn & Nicholas Springer
Annabel & Joe Stelzer
Ingrid & Simon Sterling
Lord & Lady Sugar
The Monty Sumray Family Trust
Romie Tager KC & Esther Tager
Ghita & Norman Tarn
Julian Taylor
This Day Foundation
Topland Group
Madeleine & Laurence Turner
Mr Arnold Wagner OBE & Mrs
Sandra Wagner
Walters Family Trust
Charlotte & Simon Warshaw
Stephen Wasserman
Suzanne & Matthew Weiniger
Lucy & Matthew Weiner
Anna & Paul White MBE
The Hon Charles & Mrs Wigoder
Alexandra & Howard Winston
The Maurice Wohl Charitable
Foundation
The Wolfson Family Charitable
Trust
The Wolfson Foundation
Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust
Lord David Wolfson KC & Lady
Louise Wolfson
Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle
Wolfson Foundation
Shelley & Merrick Wolman
Vivienne & David Woolf
Worth Charitable Trust
Lady Young
Mr Poju Zabludowicz & Mrs
Anita Zabludowicz OBE
Dorit & Alex Zak
Sol Zakay
Eddie Zakay
The Deborah Louise Zamet
Charitable Foundation
Tamara & Jonathan Zenios
The Ziff Family
Laura & Stephen Zimmerman
List Correct as of January 2026
Thanks
We would like to express our thanks to our main sponsor, Topland Group, and associate sponsor, Allsop LLP, for their generosity in sponsoring this lunch.
Thank you to Cervidae Consultancy Ltd for sponsoring the raffle,Together Money for sponsoring the reception, Dentons for sponsoring the name badges, Howden for sponsoring the napkins, BKL for sponsoring the water bottles, Silverstream Finance for sponsoring the pens and JLL for sponsoring the pledge cards.
Thank you to Lord Wolfson and James Harding for donating their time today.
Thanks to all our raffle donors.
Thanks to all the companies and individuals who contributed to the brochure and made donations in respect of the lunch.
Thanks to the Community Security Trust for their continued commitment to keeping us safe.
A special thanks to all our guests, table hosts and sponsors who have supported us over the past 38 years.
This brochure was designed by Jewish Care’s in-house design studio to keep costs to a minimum.
Topland Group Business Lunch Committee 2026
Chaim Aziz, Joanne Barnett, Adrian Benosiglio, Simon De Friend, Asher Golker, Elliot Goodman Benjamin Greenwold, Mark Kingston, Nicola Kravitz, Philip Lassman, Steven Lewis, Steven Lewis, Steven Lewis MBE, Michael Marciano, David Pollock, Joe Rosenblatt, Peter Shasha, Ryan Springer, Matthew Tinger
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