The historic moments for the National Memorial Family Fund: 2018 to date!

"Marking significant achievements"

We want to share some of the historic and pivotal moments for the the National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund (NMPMFF) since its inception.

These mark some of our key milestones, developments and achievements over the years, which demonstrates how we have progressed on our core mission.


Much research, as well as grassroots knowledge, has shown that people of African and Caribbean decent, die in disproportionate numbers in state institutions.


Below are a collection of articles published on this website (in descending order).

  • NMPMFF Annual Report for the period 2022-2023

    17 September 2024

    The NMPMFF are proud to present our second annual report of activities in 2022 and 2023. This report will cover the most significant of our positive outcomes, whilst also being realistic about some of the challenges and hurdles that lay ahead. 

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  • NMPMFF operational and grant structure changes

    3 July 2024

    NMPMFF made significant changes to grant making and admin systems. The Crisis Family Fund will now be our principal grant programme. Strict criteria will ensure that those in genuine urgent need receive awards. The process will remain simple, with a quick turnaround.

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  • NMPMFF presents its inaugural Annual Report for 2021-2022

    1 October 2022

    We were proud to present our first full annual report of our activities between 2021 and 2022. The 1 September 2022 marked 7 years since the National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund was founded, and just over 2 years since our first ever funding round. 

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  • INQUEST donates funding for the National Memorial Family Fund

    11 November 2021

    INQUEST donated £7,500 in grant funding to the National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund to further our development of the Annual Gala Dinner & Awards initiative. 

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  • BLM UK announce funding for the Memorial Family Fund

    25 October 2021

    Black Lives Matter UK agreed to the release of £40,000 in grant funding to the National Memorial Family Fund to further our Development Plan and appoint two new key part-time staff members (employed via accountable body, Catalyst4Change CIC).

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  • National Mikey Powell Family Fund & UFFC launch Legacy Fund

    25 October 2021

    The Legacy Fund was a new funding stream administered by the National Memorial Family Fund on behalf of the United Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC) and Migrant Media.

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  • National Family Fund & UFFC to launch Crisis Family Fund

    23 January 2021

    The National Memorial Family Fund added a new funding stream called the Crisis Family Fund in March 2021 in partnership with the United Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC).

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  • Launch of the Two-Way Give-Back Programme

    23 January 2021

    In conjunction with 4WardEverUK our ‘Two-Way Give-Back’ programme will block-purchase selected services or products and offer them to affected families at discounted prices. When families use the service, vendors simply give a little back! 

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  • National Family Fund is formally incubated by Catalyst4Change

    8 August 2020

    We were pleased to announce that (with effect from 29 July 2020) the National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund would be formally incubated by West Midlands based social enterprise Catalyst 4 Change, thereby taking on its legal identity but maintaining our operational independence. 

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  • National Mikey Powell Family Fund announce 1st funding round

    14 June 2020

    In June 2020 were extremely pleased to announce that after 5 years of fundraising, the first ever National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund round would open for applications. 

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  • National Family Fund – Unprecedented donations in call for justice

    14 June 2020

    Initially triggered by the brutal police killing of George Floyd, international protests and a Tweet from Oonagh Ryder (@oonskie) and subsequent follow-up Tweets by Lucy Brisbane McKay (@lucybrisbane) and others, we saw unprecedented donations to the National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund in May and June 2020. 

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See our National Memorial Family Album

The gallery includes images and summaries celebrating the support that the National Family Fund has provided.


The images and summaries are updated from time to time, and may also include links to further information provided about the campaigns that are listed.


See the Family Album here >
The National Memorial Family Fund is the first permanent national resource of its kind specifically for those affected by deaths and killings in custody or state neglect. We make small grants available for families and their campaign groups across the UK to provide practical domestic assistance and campaign support. We also run (or are developing) a range of other support services for families, children and young people that are affected.

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