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Narrator: Members of the Movement, rabbis and the leadership team continue to represent our needs to our community and the Jewish community to the wider world.

Stephen Moss: Tony Bayfield's done an amazing job over a long period of time in bringing the Reform Movement into the heart of the community and he's forged the way for there to be a multiplicity of voices representing the Reform Movement.

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Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner: You need personality to deliver the policy...

Rabbi Jonathan Romain: and you end up with a very fragmented and divisive society precisely at a time when we should be doing the opposite.

Jonathan Dimbleby: We are at the Wimbledon and District Synagogue and in the Movement for Reform Judaism.

Stephen Moss: the Reform Movement is at the very centre of the British Jewish community and Jewish life in this country.

Matthew Gould: Well I grew up in the Reform Movement but the last few years have been more involved with the Reform Movement than ever before because my wife's converted. It's been a wonderful experience; we know we are on our way to Israel, we know that our involvement with West London and with the Movement has been the most marvellous preparation and given us a real grounding in Judaism and Jewish values.

I'm immensely proud as a member of the Reform Movement to be going to represent my country.

Narrator: Support from the Reform Movement has helped establish student outreach across the country.

Sheldon Mordsley: We're Jeneration; it's a new Jewish organisation for students and young adults.

Narrator: With campus activities, leadership tours and social action events, Jeneration is delivering on its promise to attract, energise and revitalise Jewish youth.

Michal Isch-Horowicz: For me this has been a really formative trip. We're leaving with a real feeling generally of optimism and of activism, wanting to do something, feeling like we can support each other in working to do that.

Simon Spier: Wow, this is going to be surreal! A lot to take in.

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Narrator: Jeneration has continued to forge new paths, helping to support people on their particular Jewish journey.

Zahavit Shalev: The partner of the Jewish person is often really intrigued and interested and up for exploring Judaism and so what you might start with is somebody who, who didn't think that having a Jewish partner was very important to them, who socialised primarily with non-Jews and then wound up with a non-Jewish partner and then says 'actually, on consideration, we're both really interested in Judaism and we kind of want to know more about our heritage'. You kind of get two where previously you had none.

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I'd always thought well, if I'm not going to marry a Jew then maybe I  don't have a right to go to these sorts of things anymore. It was just a really nice message that you can still be Jewish and go to shul and your partner will be welcome and if it wasn't for that I'm sure I would be going to shul a lot less.

Zahavit Shalev: The message is if you want to identify or do any Jewish stuff then the door's open to you and you can do it on your terms and there are other people who are doing the same thing.

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The Movement's vision has lead to the establishment of the country's first Jewish cross-communal secondary school.

Jeremy Stowe-Linder: 27th August is handover. So they've got ten days. Well it's incredible, if you think that last week none of this was paved.

JCoSS is a school that reflects the plurality of the Anglo Jewish community.

Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand: This school is nothing short of transformative for British Jewry.

Jeremy Stowe-Linder: The Reform Movement has been crucial in the development of JCoSS and the support from the Reform community, not just within the community but in lobbying local and national government to make the school a reality has been crucial, not least the support of Rabbi Tony Bayfield.

Narrator: Thanks to your support, the Movement has reached over a thousand young people.

RSY-Netzer programme participants: This has been my first year on camp and it's actually been unbelievable.

It is a testament to how good RSY is that this is my tenth year and I just keep on coming back every summer.

Narrator: Through winter and summer camps, leadership training, Israel Tour and the Shnat gap year programme, RSY-Netzer has been changing the lives of Jewish young people.

RSY-Netzer programme participants: If I hadn't had been on Tour I wouldn't have the confidence I do today.

Even when you're not on camp, it's, it's, you still feel part of something really special.

Alma Smith: I particularly find it exciting watching seventeen and eighteen year old leaders run a camp for a hundred fifteen year olds. I think I'm a better person for having been in RSY-Netzer.

Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand: I had a Leo Baeck College board meeting last night and I just ducked out of an Assembly of Rabbis meeting this morning. I don't know what it is that you've been doing but you got the rabbis buzzing. This Shabbat is Shabbat Chazon. Chazon is 'vision' and I can't think of a better word to describe what it is that you're about and what it is what we're about than chazon: vision.

Rabbi Dr. Tony Bayfield: Ten years ago, given the position of the Reform Movement on the margins of the community, I really wasn't sure that this community had a future. Now, all I have to do is to look at the response to our day schools, our youth movement, the Jeneration initiative, with Shoshana to take us on the next stage. I think the sky's the limit.

Narrator: Your involvement allows us to continue this essential work. So thank you for your support.

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Thank you!

Stephen Moss: Thank you for your support.

Thank you.

Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand: You are the Reform Movement. Everything we do is because of you, for you, we couldn't do it without you. Thank you.

Thank you for your support.