Supporters have donated almost £4,000 to a fund to support a café set up in memory of murdered Catholic schoolboy Jimmy Mizen after it was raided by thieves last weekend.
The Ten Thousand Hands Café, in Lewisham, south-east London, provided work and training for young people with autism.
It was run by the Jimmy Mizen Foundation, a charity that campaigns to end youth violence. Its namesake, Jimmy Mizen, was murdered in a London bakery in 2008, aged 16.
Margaret Mizen, Jimmy Mizen’s mother and a pro-chancellor at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, said on Facebook: “Our café was broken into and everything was taken. All the work we do will continues as this proves how much we need it but I don’t think it was our young people who did this.”
She estimated that the damage would run to some £6,000, with a coffee machine and a panini maker among the items reported stolen.
An online fundraiser has raised more than 60 per cent of the money needed to replace the stolen goods.
Sophie Davies, who is related to the Mizens and who established the fund, said: “The family have been and still are going through a lot personally and I would like to do what I can to help raise funds for them to be able to buy what they need for future projects after so many knock backs. Their spirit is incredible and I think it's time us, the community gave back.”
To donate go to the Just Giving page.
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