# Holocaust survivors charity closes with farewell event

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/03/20/holocaust-survivors-charity-closes-farewell-event/
- Published: 2017-03-20T14:52:15+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Six Point Foundation, the time-limited charity that makes grants to Holocaust 
survivors and refugees in the UK, has closed, as planned, after six years.**

 

To mark the occasion and celebrate its achievements, the charity held a farewell
event last week at JW3, London’s Jewish Community Centre. The event was live-streamed
to members of SPF Connect, the Six Point Foundation-funded programme that enables
Holocaust survivors and refugees in the UK to engage with the digital world.

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The Foundation used the opportunity share what it had learned over the past six 
weeks, with information directed at residential care homes and social and support
workers.

 

The farewell event was sponsored in memory of the members of the Hundert and Kimel
families who perished in the Shoah.

 

 

 

![Six Point Foundation farewell. Photo: John Rifkin](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.
cloud/2017/03/six-point-foundation-farewell-event-1.jpg)

_Chairman Susan Grant and supporting partners at the farewell event for the Six 
Point Foundation. Photo: John Rifkin_

 

 

 

Susan Cohen, executive director at [Six Point Foundation](http://www.sixpointfoundation.org.uk/),
said:

 

“Since 2011, we’ve given grants to help improve the quality of life for people of
Jewish origin living in the UK who experienced Nazi oppression and have faced difficult
financial circumstances. It’s been an incredible journey and I’m really proud of
what we’ve achieved.”

 

![Six Point Foundation closure event](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2017/
03/six-point-foundation-event.jpg)

 

The closure of Six Point Foundation also marks the formal handover of one SPF Connect
to London IT company, Natpoint.

 

SPF Connect involves the installation of 450 specially configured, internet-enabled
computers to Holocaust survivors and refugees in the UK. Available to qualifying
individuals and Jewish residential care homes across the UK, the computers make 
it easy for people challenged or intimidated by modern computing to enjoy the benefits
of going online.

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