Limmud Festival:
Sunday 27 – Tuesday 29 December 2020
Limmud Shabbat Friday 25 – Saturday 26
Limmud Festival is made possible by the efforts of hundreds of volunteers without whom Festival wouldn’t exist. A group of these volunteers make up the Festival Team, those responsible for an area of the event. This year’s Festival team are:
| Rob Simmons | Chair | |
| Isabelle Tarsh | MarComms | |
| Hannah Rose | MarComms | |
| Joey Leskins | Programming | |
| Jake Berger | Shabbat and Innovation | |
| Ella Grodzinski | Shabbat and Innovation | |
| Ben Combe | Resources | |
| Daniel Vaughan | Resources | |
| Eli Treuherz | Site | |
| Dan Mackenzie | Site | |
| Alina Cohen | Participant Care | |
| Hannah Rosen | Participant Care | |
| Jonathan Robinson | Catering | |
| Sarah Pinch | Finance | |
| Danielle Angel | Families | |
| Emily Carp | Families | |
| Eve Jackson | Young and Teen Limmud | |
| Eden Ottman | Young and Teen Limmud | |
| Moses Makin | Young and Teen Limmud | |
| Yvette Zinger | Volunteers | |
| Nat Kunin | Volunteers |
If you would like to get involved with making Festival happen, you can click here to contact the Chair using this form. Please find a description of each team below:
Programming: a team who liaise with & invite presenters and review submitted sessions, in order to curate a diverse, balanced, and engaging programme
Site: site staff liaison, working hand-in-hand with our venues and hotels, and managing all communal spaces on Festival
Catering: ensure that we build on feedback to provide for everybody’s catering needs, and have delicious food options all throughout the event, as well as managing the dining spaces, alongside our professional catering team. No actual cooking required
YADs & Volunteers: coordinate our volunteers, yads and Festival makers, without whom the event could not happen, and ensuring that their volunteering experience was a positive and fulfilling one
Participant Care: ensure the needs of participants are met, from advice, to health and wellbeing, to ensuring that everyone can remain happy and healthy at Festival
Shabbat: create a restful and uplifting environment for Limmud Shabbat, which takes place immediately before the main Festival begins
Families: to ensure those who come to Festival with young families feel as much a part of the event as everybody else, through family-friendly programming, accommodation, and dining experiences, and our creche and baby-listening services – which all take place at our dedicated families hotel
YTL: create a programme that is integrated with the main event, and running a large and diverse team of madrichim (leaders), to ensure that the children and teenagers of Limmud Festival have an amazing time!
Registration and Transport: ensure that the registration form collects more useful information that helps us to make the event even better, and running a smooth registration process upon arrival, as well as coordinating the provision of transport to and from, and during the event
Resourcing: taking inventory, purchasing, transporting and organising all of the resources needed for Festival and people presenting at Festival
Marcomms: the team that runs our marketing and communications throughout the year, to ensure that all participants know how and when to register, but also that participants know what’s what at Festival
Finance: build the budget, to ensure that Limmud’s money is spent effectively and responsibly
Commerce: organise and run the cafe and bars, bookshop and the shuk (marketplace)
Impact: ensure that the only mark that Festival leaves is a positive one, by enabling us to have recycling facilities, carbon offsetting journeys to and from Festival, and enabling those who are unable to get to Festival are able to engage with it from afar
Accommodation: ensure we make the best use of the hotel rooms, allocating participants to the correct rooms.