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A UK registered charity supporting community empowerment and capacity building in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.

28/08/2026

Annie's first charity sale! 🍪🧁

Our youngest fundraiser is getting ready for her very first charity event – and we couldn't be prouder.

Six-year-old Annie (our CEO Debra's granddaughter) is hosting a yard sale this Saturday to support The Together Plan. She'll be selling homemade cakes, biscuits, books, and honey for Rosh Hashanah – all proceeds will go to our work with communities in Belarus.

Pllease pop by, say hello, and grab a treat. Annie would love to see you!

📍 1 Warenford Way, Borehamwood, Herts, WD6 5EJ
📅 Saturday 29 August
🕒 3.00 PM – 5.00 PM

Everyone welcome – and please share with friends and neighbours!

06/07/2026

Every team needs a starting XI. So does reviving a community 🌍⚽️

This summer, we’re launching our first-ever fundraising appeal. Not because we want to. Because we believe in being honest with the people who care.

For over a decade, The Together Plan has been working to revive Jewish community life in Belarus – a country where Jewish history was nearly erased. We trace families through archives. We restore memorial sites. We preserve personal stories. We bring hidden history into classrooms. We send humanitarian aid to those in need.

None of this happens without a team behind it. And right now, that team needs its supporters more than ever.

Will you take your place in our starting XI?
Learn more how to do it: https://www.thetogetherplan.com/support-us/world-together-appeal/

Read the full story behind the appeal 👇
https://www.thetogetherplan.com/every-team-needs-a-starting-xi-so-does-a-community-coming-back-to-life/

19/06/2026

An important conversation about Novogrudok. Join us online.

On 26 September 1943, the last Jews remaining in the Novogrudok Ghetto, approximately 240 people, attempted the impossible. After months of digging a tunnel from the labour camp barracks, over 130 inmates successfully escaped. It remains the greatest Holocaust escape in terms of the number of survivors.

Today, the site of that extraordinary act of resistance is at the centre of a troubling development. In July 2025, a historic agreement was signed to establish the Belarusian Museum of the Holocaust and Resistance in Novogrudok. But on 11 May 2026, three buildings that formed part of the labour camp complex, including one intended for the museum, were sold at auction without the knowledge or consent of the signatory partners.

Join us for an online discussion to examine what we know, what is at stake, and the wider challenges of Holocaust memorialisation in the former Soviet Union. Guest speakers Lady Esther Gilbert, Shifra Poupko and Betty Cohen, daughter of tunnel escapee Fanya Dunetz Brodsky, will share their insights.

The event takes place next Wednesday 24 June at 7.00 pm BST (11.00 am PST / 2.00 pm EST / 9.00 pm Israel) and is free to join online. Register via the link: https://www.thetogetherplan.com/events/the-future-of-the-site-of-the-novogrudok-labour-camp-and-the-tunnel-escape/

12/06/2026

Help us revive Maccabi in Belarus! ⚽️🏀♟️

Before the Second World War, Maccabi clubs were symbols of strength, resilience and belonging for Jewish communities across Eastern Europe. But the Holocaust and Soviet suppression brought Maccabi to an end in Belarus.

Now, after decades, Maccabi is back.

On 22 January 2026, the Sport Institution .by was officially registered and is now a member of the Maccabi World Union. This is a huge milestone for Jewish life in Belarus.

How you can help?

Through our Aid Together project, we are collecting sports equipment for the new Maccabi programme. We need balls, athletic wear, trainers, training cones and markers, chess clocks and sets, and boccia equipment.

This is more than just sport. It’s about renewal, identity and connection.

If you have any items to donate, please get in touch at [email protected]

Thank you for helping us bring Maccabi back 🤍

11/06/2026

Your roots are waiting to be found!

Have you ever wondered how far back your family tree goes? Most of us only know two or three generations. But what if you could go further – much further?

Join us for a free online talk about The Together Plan’s archive service. Our team will show how we help people trace their ancestors, often back centuries, and uncover the real stories behind the names. Sometimes joyful. Sometimes surprising. Always meaningful.

📅 Sunday 28 June at 7.00 pm BST
💻 Online (link sent upon registration)
🎟️ Free (donations welcome)

Spaces are limited, so don’t leave it too late.

Register via the link: https://www.thetogetherplan.com/events/archive-service-a-trip-to-your-roots/

Come curious. Your roots are waiting.

08/06/2026

A tribute to our dear friend and colleague, Neil Adams

We are deeply saddened to share that our beloved volunteer, friend, and colleague, Neil Adams, has passed away.

Neil first reached out to The Together Plan in December 2020, after reading our book We Remember Lest the World Forget: Memories of the Minsk Ghetto. From that very first email, his passion for history, his curiosity, and his warmth were unmistakable.

Over the years, Neil became so much more than a volunteer. He was a researcher, a writer, a fundraiser, a keen observer, and a devoted member of our team. He officially joined us as Fundraising and Education Research Coordinator and threw himself into every task with intelligence, humour, and unwavering commitment.

Neil walked with us, completing a 27.73-mile Walkathon through Manchester. He travelled with us to Belarus, helping to prepare for the historic opening of the Memory Embrace memorial in Brest. He attended symposiums, wrote powerful articles and supported our education programmes.

He was deeply devoted to The Together Plan’s mission and became a cherished member of our family. His encouragement was constant:

«I support you 100%. I am inspired by your passion. You are an inspiration to me. I am proud to keep The Together Plan flag flying, and I am proud to have you as a friend.»

There will never be another Neil.

We will miss him terribly, but we will carry his memory, his work, and his passion forward.

May his memory be a blessing.

You can read the full tribute by Debra Brunner on our website: https://www.thetogetherplan.com/tribute-to-neil-adams-journey-through-history/

01/06/2026

It’s been an active week full of amazing moments! 🤍

Although Debra and Tracey are now back home in the UK, we have so much more to share with you.

Our team travelled thousands of kilometres across Belarus – from Grodno to Brest, from Volozhin to Nesvizh. We visited historic synagogues and overgrown cemeteries, stood in quiet forests where memory still speaks, beta-tested a brand-new audio tour in Brest, and signed a historic agreement at the Minsk Jewish Heritage Centre.

Everywhere we went, we were welcomed with warmth and friendship. Jewish Belarus is not just a story of the past – it is a living community with a future.

Read the full article on our website:
👉 https://www.thetogetherplan.com/on-the-road-in-belarus-a-journey-of-jewish-heritage-memory-and-new-beginnings/

Stay tuned – there is so much more to come ✨

28/05/2026

Volozhin. The mother of all yeshivas ✡️

Our journey across Belarus continues, and yesterday we visited a place that once held a central place in the Jewish world.

The Volozhin Yeshiva – Etz Haim, Tree of Life – was founded in 1803 and became the most important centre of Jewish religious education in Eastern Europe. Students came from America, England, Germany, even Japan. In the Jewish world, it is still called "the mother of all yeshivas."

After more than 85 years without prayer inside these walls, the building has been carefully restored. Original layers of history have been revealed. And a Torah scroll, over 100 years old, has been returned to where it belongs.

Before the war, Jews made up over seventy percent of Volozhyn's population. In June 1941, the Germans arrived. Tens of thousands were killed. Among the victims were the last sixty-four students of the yeshiva.

The building still stands. Pilgrims still visit the grave of its founder. And something of that history carries on.

Our trip is full of new places and powerful impressions. We keep exploring, learning and sharing. Thank you for following along with Debra, Tracey and our Belarusian team.

26/05/2026

Yesterday we travelled to Ivye and the nearby forest of Stonevichi. It was a day of deep history and quiet reflection 🕯

Before the war, Ivye was extraordinary. Four communities lived here side by side: Catholics, Orthodox Christians, Muslims and Jews. Jews were the majority – seventy percent of the town's population. They had their own theatre, their own football team, a synagogue courtyard filled with prayer and study. Life was modest, but it was alive.

Just outside town, in the forest of Stonevichi, that life was cut short. On 12 May 1942, over 2,500 men, women and children were shot in a single day – among them infants only months old. A memorial now stands among the trees. Every year on 12 May, descendants of Ivye's Jews come from around the world to light candles and recite the memorial prayer.

Today we are travelling to Novogrudok and Volozhin. More stories await. More places that once thrived. More memories to honour.

We will share what we find. Follow along!

25/05/2026

We're on the road across Belarus – and we want you to come with us!🤍

After a long time apart from our Belarusian team, Debra Brunner (CEO and co-founder of The Together Plan) and Tracey Kieve (Trustee of The Together Plan) have arrived from the UK. We've been travelling together ever since.

This is just the beginning of our journey. We'll be visiting Jewish heritage sites across Belarus, meeting local partners, and sharing stories from the communities we work with.

Today, we explored Grodno and Ivye.

In Grodno, we stood inside the Great Choral Synagogue – one of the oldest functioning synagogues in Europe, built in 1578. Before the war, Grodno had 43 synagogues. Today, only this one remains. It's a reminder of a community that once thrived here for over six hundred years.

In Ivye, we walked through the central square where four communities once lived side by side – Catholics, Orthodox Christians, Muslims and Jews. Jews made up seventy percent of the town's population. Today, there is no Jewish community. But the memory of that vibrant community lives on.

We also visited the memorials in the forests outside Ivye. Quiet, sacred place. Not easy to see. Essential to witness.

This is only the start. We have more towns to visit, more stories to uncover, and more memories to honour.

Follow along as we travel. We'll be sharing updates, photos and reflections from the road!

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