More than 40 children from a Stanmore synagogue visited a care home on Sunday to mark Mitzvah Day.

The children from Belmont United Synagogue, in Vernon Drive, visited residents of Princess Alexandra Care Home in Bushey.

The children entertained residents with a singalong let by Rabbi Elchonon Feldman on a guitar.

They also presented the residents with plant pots and boxes decorated by Belmont’s Brownies, as well as with a cushion cover specially made for the home by the synagogue's knitting circle.

Belmont Synagogue also held a ‘collectathon’ during which members donated toys for Watford Hospital’s children’s ward and for Camp Simcha, a charity which supports children with life threatening illnesses.

Finally, the synagogue’s children made Chanukah cards for soldiers serving in Israel and Belmont donated 60 saplings to St John’s Church in Great Stanmore for the creation of a hedgerow.

Mitzvah Day, or good deed day, is held each November by synagogues across the country.

It is marked by activities aimed at benefiting needy members of the community and the wider non-Jewish society.