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Remembering Grenfell: our journey so far (May 2022)

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Appendices

Appendix 1: how many people have engaged with us and how?

How many shared views with Kaizen How many shared views with community representatives and secretariat How many shared views on memorial with DLUHC* Total who have shared views Total who have engaged (includes online meeting attendance) Total
number of bereaved individuals, former or current local residents
Total bereaved individuals who shared a view on the memorial 14 50 3 67 78 Around 320**
Grenfell Tower former residents 8 12 1 21 24 Around 360**
Grenfell Walk former residents 5 1 0 6 6 Around 70**
Total former residents (from the Tower and Grenfell Walk) who shared a view on the memorial 13 13 1 27 30 Around 430**
Lancaster West residents 459 18 0 477 1,700
All community residents including Lancaster West 1,861 116 1 1,978 N/A
Total individuals who shared a view on the memorial 1,888 179 5 2,072 N/A
* The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has not asked anyone for views on a memorial but has occasionally been given them during conversations about the Tower.
** This includes children born after the fire and subsequent partners.

Appendix 2: % of all words (given by people in response to the question, ‘which three words would you want to describe the memorial?’) within the four emerging themes

Total Peaceful and reflective Respectful and remembrance Community and love Hope and positive
Bereaved and survivors 86% 34% 30% 14% 8%
Community 75% 24% 23% 12% 16%
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Appendix 3: views on the physical form of the memorial

Possible
memorial forms
All bereaved and
survivors
Bereaved only Survivors
only
Lancaster West
residents
All
community
Garden or landscape 66% 61% 74% 51% 64%
Artwork or monument 30% 30% 26% 29% 33%
Building 14% 13% 17% 6% 10%

Appendix 4: views on the elements of the memorial

Possible
memorial elements
All bereaved and
survivors
Bereaved only Survivors only Lancaster West
residents
All
community
Place to sit/reflect/for the community to come together 49% 43% 61% 33% 31%
Names of those who lost their lives 44% 48% 39% 27% 23%
Water 29% 35% 17% 11% 13%
Place for children/young people 21% 20% 26% 9% 12%
Lights 11% 11% 13% 2% 2%
Height (reflecting the size of the Tower) 10% 11% 4% 1% 2%
Using the full structure of the Tower 10% 11% 9% 2% 2%
Using elements or part of the Tower in the memorial (the footprint or parts of the Tower) 7% 4% 13% 1% 1%
Using part of the structure of the Tower (reduced height to bottom 4–5 floors) 3% 4% 0% <1% <1%

(All data has been compiled and analysed by Kaizen.)

Appendix 5: what has happened so far, and what can you expect? (Please note that these timings are indicative, based on our current expectations and engagement findings.)

September 2019 – June 2020 The Memorial Commission’s membership is finalised. Introductions with the bereaved, former residents and wider community begin and initial ideas heard.

Meetings take place to establish the Commission’s aims, approach, and ways of working.

September 2020 – April 2022 Ideas-gathering and listening begins, carried out by the Memorial Commission with support from Kaizen, a community engagement specialist. This happens via one-to-one conversations with bereaved families, phone and email conversations, online surveys, street outreach and knocking on doors of local residents. There are online meetings and, once permitted by Covid-19 rules, ‘drop-ins’ close to the Tower.

The Memorial Commission asks how the memorial should feel, what form would reflect this, and other early questions on issues like ownership. Initial insights are shared with the community as we go.

May 2022 – June 2022 Our ‘Remembering Grenfell’ report is published, followed by the fifth anniversary of the tragedy.
July 2022 – January 2023 The Memorial Commission continues to hold conversations, workshops and meetings with the community, focussing on areas we haven’t covered in detail such as ownership, reuse of materials from the Tower and how the memorial will be used. We will focus especially on groups we have spoken less with.

We will work with public authorities, and also with experts, to understand the potential of the site and how elements of the Tower could be included in the memorial.

January 2023 – March 2023 We will share all our findings in our second report and the community will be invited to ask questions and share any concerns. We will use what we have heard, site details and the input of experts to develop a design brief. This will define the type of team needed, such as architects, landscape architects or artists, and will capture the key elements that the design team should consider.
April 2023 – April 2024 The design team will be chosen in a public competition. They will need the right expertise to develop the memorial, as well as involving us and the community in the development of the final design.
December 2024 We and the community will be able to agree the final design, before the final planning permission is then sought. The memorial build process begins.