The Cyril Malyon Memorial Fund (CMMF) was established in 2013 as a charitable, not for profit voluntary organisation, by Jennifer Chacksfield (nee Malyon) and Alec Malyon, in recognition of their father’s work at Markhouse Secondary School and the Markhouse Drama Club that he ran between 1955 – 1977.

Click on this title for further information about the Cyril Malyon Memorial Fund and on the following main project titles for the details and the photographic gallery for each of the 11  projects that have been run to date:

‘Whose Myth is it Anyway’ – ‘Its Only A Pocket Knife’ – Markhouse Drama Club Website – ‘Excite’ – ‘A View from the Street’ – ‘Macbeth at Thornage Hall’  –  CYTO Dance, Singing & Acting Workshops -‘Transition’ – ‘Dealing with Domestic’ – ‘Unihabited’ – ‘Save Lives – Drop the Knives’ 

‘Its Only A Pocket Knife’ was a CMMF Project that was planned, devised and rehearsed by the young people at Tendring College for presentation to several other local schools to raise the awarenes of knife crime through post performance discussion. Regretably the initial performance, those at the other locations and the hopes of re-instigating the project at a later date, were all lost due to the outbreak of Covid and the subsequent lockdown period.
However, those young people involved clearly learnt much from their involvement up to its cancellation; both in terms of being creative, in performance and team work skills and in their awareness of the issues around knife crime. As such, further detail of the development of this project is included in this part of the website.

‘Its Only A Pocket Knife’ – September 2019 (originally Scheduled to February 2021)