National Mikey Powell Family Fund 4th grants round funding summary
The fourth National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund (NMPMFF) grant round closed on 7 December 2021. In this round the assessment team also awarded several Crisis Fund grants.
We successfully allocated £11,940 in grants to 26 families/campaigns in the fourth round. This takes the total awarded over the life of the Fund to £37,940.
Recipients of grants included:
We are very proud to have been able to support the families and campaigns listed below, and are grateful to our volunteers, donors and supporters that made it all possible:
- Desmond Maddix Family
- Jusice4Mouayed
- Scott Mullen's Family
- The Trevor A Smith Campaign x2
- Abdul Hamid's Family
- Justice 4 Daz Campaign
- Justice for Allan Marshall
- Sierra Leone School & Football Team
- Justice for Winston
- Justice4TerryRoberts
- Charlie Millers Family
- Justice for Jasmine
- Touching on the death of Steven O’Neill
- Justice for Mzee Mohammed
- Justice 4 Hayley
- Kieran Barrett's Family
- Gary Mavin's Family
- Justice for Monerville Brothers
- Brandon Mortlock's Family
- Trevor Monerville's Family x2
- Justice for Gaia
- Oskar Nash's Family
- Andrew Dean's Family
- Simeon Francis Family
Please see our 'Grants Awarded' page for details of some of the recipients:
www.memorialfamilyfund.org.uk/grants-awarded
Also see our 'Family Album' page for more featured images:
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.
The chair of England's first public inquiry into mental health deaths, Baroness Lampard, has vowed to "seek out the truth" - despite difficulties getting documents from the NHS.
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.
