WINDRUSH FOUNDATION CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF HERITAGE AND COMMUNITY ADVOCACY: 1995 – 2020

THE ORGANISATION THAT CREATED THE GENERATION

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Windrush 70 Pioneers and Champions

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The Windrush Foundation 70 Years On

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WINDRUSH PROFILES

Windrush Foundation - Norma Best

Norma Best

In 1944, Britain appealed to her colonies for assistance and one of the smallest was British Honduras…

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Windrush Foundation - Sam King

Sam King MBE

Harold was 18 years of age when war as declared in 1939. Hw was working at a foundry in British Guiana…

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Windrush Foundation - Aurthur Curling

Arthur Curling

In 1944, when the British government advertised in Jamaica for volunteers for the Royal Air Force against…

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Windrush Foundation - Cy Grant

Cy Grant

Cy was born in British Guiana (Now Guyana), and was 22 years of age in 1941 when he volunteered to…

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THE BEN TV INTERVIEWS

Windrush Foundation and Ben TV have partnered up to produce interviews that will give you more info about the people and time of Windrush.

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IMMIGRANTS, ALIENS AND SETTLERS

A discussion paper that argues , right from the start, that members of the Windrush generation
should not have been branded as ‘immigrants.’

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Community Champions

Sam King

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I was born in Portland, Jamaica in 1926, and worked with my father on the family farm with every intention of eventually …

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Oku Ekpenyon

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As a former head of history at an inner London secondary school and having taught for 20 years, I was …

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Betty Asafu-Adjaye

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How can we become each other’s keeper? H is the question I have been asking since I started the Mission Dine Club …

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Quotes from the community

"It is crucially important we remember this generation of pioneers as we are all standing on their shoulders"

Sonia Brown

WINDRUSH PIONEERS

John Richards

Donald Clark

Dr J.S. Risien Russell

Peter Dielhenn

Sam King

Lucilda Harris

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CELEBRATING OLAUDAH EQUIANO
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AN ICONIC LIFE,
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BUSINESSMAN, ABOLITIONIST, EXPLORER,
BEST-SELLING AUTHOR

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