How does it work?
First of all, register your interest in taking part by filling out our sign-up form. The JW3 Social Action Incubator team will be in touch to arrange a 1:1 conversation with you to get your thoughts on what big questions the Social Action Incubator needs to explore. We want to know what you think the most crucial questions(s) for the British Jewish community are and what social action initiatives we need to help.
Then put Sunday 6 July 2025 in your diary to attend the Social Action Hackathon with your fellow social action heroes.
What is the Social Action Hackathon?
A day-long event where around 60-70 participants from across the Jewish communal, and Jewishly adjacent, social action ecologies will explore, shape and design the community’s next big social action initiatives. Led by JW3, the event will take place from 10am-6pm on Sunday 6 July 2025, using a Design Thinking process to guide it.
We will have identified 4-5 big questions which emerge during the 1:1 conversations and you will pick your top 2 to explore on the day. We will provide you with some research material and data to swot up and put you in teams of five or six other people whose skills complement your own and who share a passion for the same big question. You will be guided through the day using Design Thinking to help you hone the big question, brainstorm solutions, develop your ideas further, and present a rough proof-of-concept by the end of the day.
JW3 will feed your stomachs and your brains throughout the day in exchange for your engagement, creativity, inspiration and innovation.
Who are the other attendees?
The Hackathon will bring together a group of social action heroes like you. They might include community volunteers, young people and students, Jewish community and charity sector professionals, artists and educators, rabbis, entrepreneurs, scientists, futurists and disruptors, changemakers, people with lived experience and anyone from the community who might have a stake in creating the next big Social Action project. When we meet you for the 1:1 we want to know who else you think should be there on the day.
Deeper Dives - What happens after the Hackathon?
By the end of the day, we aim to have lots of brilliant ideas which may all be viable as social action projects.
Over the following weeks, the JW3 team will follow up with groups and individuals who are interested in taking a deeper dive into an idea that emerges through the Hackathon or has come about subsequently. We will offer some micro-investment and mentoring to help you develop the idea further for a couple of days for you to present a further developed proof of concept later in the year.
By the end of the year, the Steering Group will then select up 3 of these projects for a larger investment and further long-term mentoring through 2026.