JEWISH communities banded together to complete good deeds for Mitzvah Day.

People from all age groups united under the theme “L’Dor Vador: From Generation to Generation” to help the needy across Redbridge.

Pupils from Clore Tikva Primary School in Barkingside treated Redbridge Jewish Community Centre members and clients of Jewish Care’s Supportive Communities initiative to tea.

Year six students learning about the Second World War put on their own variety show featuring poetry, guitars and choir songs.

Barnardo’s Redbridge Leaving Centre benefitted from a clean-up from Beal High School students who cleaned cupboards and sorted clothes.

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said: “Mitzvah Day promotes one of the core values and priorities of our Jewish community in a most extraordinary way.

“The energy, compassion and kindness with which thousands of people on Mitzvah Day give of their time for countless worthy a Rich, and his wife Laura Lassman – who brought children and grandchildren along to Jewish Care’s Vi and John Rubens House, where they served tea and entertained as part of East London and Essex Liberal Synagogue’s project.”

Almost every single Jewish synagogue and community in Essex also took part, helping charities including Jewish Care, Jewish Blind & Disabled, Jami, Redbridge Food Bank and Jason Lee House.