A fund created in Cox’s memory by her friends and family has raised more than £200,000 ($290,000, 250,000 euros) so far for charities close to her heart.
The money will support the Royal Voluntary Service which helps combat loneliness in her constituency; the Hope Not Hate anti-extremism group and the White Helmets volunteer search and rescue workers in Syria.
– Vigil outside parliament –
At a vigil in London’s Parliament Square on Friday evening, hundreds of people gathered to lay flowers and pay their respects, holding a minute’s silence.
Former Labour leader Ed Miliband joined former deputy leader Harriet Harman and Labour MP Wes Streeting in paying tribute to Cox.
“Her legacy of giving a voice to the voiceless, particularly those caught up in war and in conflict, her legacy of standing up against oppression wherever she found it, and her legacy of preaching the values of unity and not division,” said Miliband.
“Jo Cox only loved, she never hated.”
Streeting added: “What we can all do here today is pledge ourselves in any way that we can to make the world that Jo was fighting for.
“A world of humanity, of decency, of compassion, of solidarity, of human rights, and social justice, simple kindness.”
Cox is the first female British MP to be murdered.
The last British lawmaker killed in office was Ian Gow, who was assassinated by Irish Republican Army paramilitaries in a car bomb attack in 1990.
Cox lived with her husband Brendan and their two children, aged three and five, on a houseboat moored on the River Thames in London, close to the city’s iconic Tower Bridge.
Mourners laid flowers on the roof of the converted barge along with pictures of the slain MP.
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