National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund ..

Practical support for families!

On 7 September 2015, the twelfth anniversary of the death of Mikey Powell who was killed in the custody of West Midlands Police, 4WardEverUK in association with others, launched the National Memorial Family Fund Appeal.

The Fund was developed in conjunction with the Friends of Mikey Powell Campaign, the United Families & Friends Campaign and Migrant Media, and acknowledges the prison rights campaigner, Pauline Campbell, who died in May 2008.

Founder, Tippa Naphtali (cousin of Mikey Powell) said; "The needs of affected families often gets lost in the equally important work of campaigning and lobbying of the state. We want to change that with a permanent fund set up specifically for their needs."

The Memorial Family Fund has been established as an Unincorporated Association (incubated by Catalyst 4 Change CIC) in remembrance of Mikey Powell and the work and campaigning of the late Pauline Campbell.

The fund is administered centrally by 4WardEverUK, with assessment partners located around the UK via campaigns and organisations such as UFFC, Migrant Media, INQUEST, the Northern Police Monitoring Project, Red Alert HELP! and others.

4WardEverUK also provides a FREE web design service for affected families. More here >

Plans and services ..

As well as their funding programmes and gifting schemes, the NMPMFF also aspire to develop other initiatives that recognise and support affected families. They are grateful to all those that gave the fund a huge boost in 2020.

Services planned include the Annual Gala Dinner & Awards, National Events Programme, Counselling Hubs, Regional 24-Hour Advice Lines, and the Year-Round Holiday Schemes.

"The difference we are making now"

The Fund is already making a practical difference to families and their campaign groups that need financial and wellbeing support during their long struggles for justice lasting decades in many cases. NMPMFF inaugural Annual Report >

It is our absolute and undivided commitment that this work should be continued indefinitely, and will maintain our momentum in this respect.