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Cynthia Mosley Memorial Fund
In June 2009 we became the new trustee of the Cynthia Mosley Memorial Fund (CMMF). The transfer was made by the Charity Commission at the request of the previous trustee body, Lambeth Council.
The charity was established in the 1930s following the early death of Cynthia Mosley. For many years it supported the work of a children's day nursery in Lambeth, set up to benefit children from poor familes.
Under the terms of the transfer, income from the CMMF will be used to support work with Lambeth children under the age of compulsory education and who are from low income families. The focus, as with all our grant making, will be to improve the long term propects of our beneficiaries.
Well before the transfer we were able to put in place plans for using the accumulated unspent income and launched our trusteeship with an award of £100,000 to Early Education, a national charity concerned with quality in pre-school education. Early Education's project, developed in response to our brief, is called 'P for Partnership'. It is designed to establish the basis for parental involvement in their children's education on two levels: instilling it in the ethos/culture of key early years settings serving our target population and instilling it in day-to-day parental practice.
The CMMF began with trustees drawn from the good, the great and (perhaps) the not so good, but well known. The early deeds show a clutch of aristocratic titles. One early trustee remains a well known name...
Cynthia Mosley, 1930s