Mosaic Jewish Community took part in a unique interfaith and intrafaith Mitzvah Day project, organised by the neighbouring Orthodox Jewish synagogue.

Led by Rabbi Rachel Benjamin (pictured on the right of the photo), members took on this year’s Mitzvah Day theme of Repair the World by preparing a garden for its winter slumber and ensuring it will be ready to bloom again.

More than 40 green-fingered volunteers from local religious communities – also including Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue, Kenton Hindu Temple and St William of York Roman Catholic Church – partnered with the Friends of Canons Park for the activity. They were also joined by local MP Bob Blackman, Cllr Kantilal Rabadia and Mitzvah Day Founder and Chair Laura Marks CBE.

The tireless group of adults and children spent hours weeding, raking, planting, sweeping and generally tidying up a walled rose garden – leaving the area looking colourful and resplendent, to be enjoyed by local people throughout the year.

Rabbi Rachel Benjamin said: “This was a wonderful opportunity for us to come together in friendship to form one community of people, working together to enhance the local environment.”

Organiser Corinne Linskell, of Stanmore and Canons Park (United) Synagogue, added: “This project was made all the more fulfilling by all our different communities uniting as one.”