Members of the North London Times and Independent Series news team will get creative this Sunday for Mitzvah Day.

As part of this year’s Mitzvah day, the team will be helping out at an arts and craft session at Edgware Masorti Synagogue, Bakery Path, along with joining a clothes ‘collectathon’ just seconds down the road at the Emmanuel NW Church, in Station Road, Edgware.

Reporters will be helping to make and design ‘get well soon’ cards, which will be sent to children undergoing life-saving surgery at the Wolfson Medical Centre in Holon, Israel, along with also helping to collect unwanted clothes and home wares to donate to charity shops in the area.

The project was selected from a huge number of entries submitted to the news team, as part of a competition launched earlier this year to find a worthy cause for the team to get involved in for the Jewish-led annual good deed day.

Past challenges for the reporters have included coppicing goat willow trees and creating a garden at a primary school.

Mitzvah Day organisers expect to attract around 35,000 volunteers from across the globe to support upwards of 800 initiatives both nationally and internationally.

Founder and chairman Laura Marks said: “We are delighted to be partnered with the Times and Independent Series and that they have found something so wonderful to do that has been generated by the community itself.

“It’s great to see the journalists getting involved in the community, as well as reporting on it, and we hope this lets others see engagement in the community can make a difference.

“There are so many wonderful causes in the area that need us and if we can all give a little time we can make a big change.”