Letter: Vince Power obituary

From the start of his music festival work, Vince Power asked people on guest lists to donate £5 for charity. This enabled him to support housing associations in north London; Solas Anois, a refuge in north London for Irish women and children experiencing domestic violence; the Aisling Return to Ireland project, for the benefit of elderly Irish people; the Irish Centre in Camden, north London; and the Terrence Higgins Trust.

Looking further afield, he also helped Amnesty international; Cradle, supplying food, medicines and later housing and schools in response to the Bosnian war of the 1990s; and mental health support in refugee camps in Thailand and Europe after the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004.