Confident, Connected and Proud: Supporting the Next Generation

For more than 20 years, Streetwise has been helping young Jewish people develop the knowledge, confidence and skills to navigate the world around them. In 2026, that mission feels as important as ever.

During the 2025/26 academic year, Streetwise reached 22,462 participants through 780 sessions at 44 schools, synagogues and community organisations, delivering education that ranges from antisemitism and personal safety to online safety and anti-bullying.

Earlier in the year, Safer Internet Day alone reached 4,410 young people in 14 primary schools, exploring the safe and responsible use of AI. Streetwise also worked with Hasmonean Girls' School on antisemitism and the media, partnered with Jami to support parents navigating online safety, and travelled to Leeds as part of the city's inaugural Antisemitism Awareness Week.

Since then, the programme has continued to evolve.

A refreshed Streetwise identity and website reflects an increased focus on antisemitism and personal safety education. Our largest Anti Bullying campaign to date reached 5,800 young people across 20 schools, while Generation Changemakers at JCoSS has empowered a cohort of Year 10 students to become ambassadors against antisemitism within their own school community.

We also launched our new Transition to Secondary school programme, supporting Year 6 pupils preparing to move to secondary school through practical sessions on independence, personal safety and Krav Maga. Over the summer these sessions travelled across the community, helping pupils think about some of the new challenges and opportunities they may encounter as they begin Year 7.

Our work is also expanding beyond Jewish schools. A new formal partnership with UJS will help Streetwise reach Jewish students within mainstream schools, while plans are developing for a new Sixth Form conference bringing young people together from across the country. The ambition is not simply to tell teenagers what to think, but to give them the confidence to navigate antisemitism, engage respectfully with different perspectives and contribute positively to the society around them.

That same belief in young people sits behind the next phase of Maccabi GB's leadership work. We are developing a renewed leadership programme for young people in Years 10 to 13, particularly those already connected to us through sport, creating opportunities for them to progress from participants into coaches, volunteers and future communal leaders.

And later this year, our Torch Relay will once again bring young Israelis from Maccabi Tzair to the UK, giving them the opportunity to experience British Jewish life while allowing young people here to hear directly about their experiences as young Israelis. It is precisely the kind of peer-to-peer Jewish connection that can turn something abstract into something personal.

Across all these programmes, the settings and subjects may be different, but the ambition is remarkably consistent: young Jewish people who understand who they are, feel confident in that identity and have the skills and opportunities to become active participants in their community.