The Foundation

The Jimmy Mizen Foundation has been set up as a positive way of remembering the life of Jimmy. Our Principal aims are:-

• to act as a resource for young people by providing assistance and organising apprenticeship placements;
• to provide support to various youth organisations that are committed to developing young people, to enable them to participate within the community as independent and responsible individuals.

The Foundation has 15 active committee members and has already made significant progress in raising finance to support local scouting organisations and arranging apprenticeships with the Leathermarket Tenant Management Organisation. Another major part of the Foundation’s work is the Awareness Project in which Jimmy’s mother and father frequently address audiences of young people, parents and teachers in schools, prisons and young offenders' institutes to promote anger management, stress awareness and the consequences of violent crime and to wholeheartedly discourage vindictiveness as a response to conflict or feeling offended. Twenty Five establishments have been visited so far with many more scheduled for 2010.

Please follow the links below to find out more about the Foundations key activities and why we have chosen to focus on these.