The new Roger Sylvester Centre at Canning Crescent will honour the memory of the man it is named after, by making it easier for more in the borough to get the help they need.

The new National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund (NMPMFF) Therapy Care Initiative Pilot funded by the Lottery Community Fund, is now active, with the selection process resuming shortly.

After years of waiting for change, friends and family of people who ‘died in police custody’ are coming together to demand justice from the police writes James Whitfield.

In July 2025 the Independent Office for Police Misconduct (IOPC) released the full details of their custody deaths statistics for England and Wales 2024-2025.

The INQUEST Oral Histories Archive documents state violence, death and resistance in the UK since 1981 and explores over 40 years of fighting for justice through sound, image and print.

Since becoming the Children’s Commissioner, I have travelled across the country meeting children whose lives are shaped by decisions made far away from them, whose voices are rarely heard.

In 2023 The NMPMFF revamped our MemberBASE service which combines contributions to the Fund with a number of extra benefits. Your support is needed - please help!

Dr David Crepaz-Keay, from the Mental Health Foundation, said: "This reform must lead to better treatment, and greater focus on support that keeps people reaching crisis or being detained."

Over the last 2+ years the NMPMFF has lost approximately 116 of our regular monthly donors leaving just 63; and recently saw the end of core funding for two critical staff.

"To the world Benjamin was the renowned writer, poet, human rights activist and more'. To us, his family, he was also all of these things, but most importantly he was family."

A new Learning Lessons bulletin from the Prisons & Probation Ombudsman summarises research from investigations where a prisoner’s death was caused by epilepsy or was diagnosed with epilepsy.

The National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund has provided Holiday Scheme awards over several years, supporting children, young people and families from across the United Kingdom.

Join us for a powerful screening of 'Mikey', one of the four docufilms in the Project HEAL series from Black Thrive Haringey. The film is a deeply personal story about injustice, grief, and healing.

In June 2025 we were pleased to announce that The National Lottery Community Fund awarded the National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund £19,984 in grants to support our development.

In September 2025 the National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund (NMPMFF) will be proudly marking 10 years since its inception by the campaigning news group 4WardEverUK.

We are pleased to announce that The National Lottery Community Fund has awarded £19,984 in grant funding to the NMPMFF to further the commitments from our Development Plans.

Over the last 2+ years the National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund (NMPMFF) has lost 80+ (60%) of regular monthly donors, and our grant and reserves are almost depleted.

As part of Unjust Deaths, INQUEST have brought together a group of bereaved people, engaged artists, campaigners, journalists and others to form a Memorialisation Working Group.

The Law Society has called on the Government to invest more money in civil legal aid to ensure greater access for all. More than 42 million people lack access to legal aid.