Sam King Windrush Awards

24 March – 30 April 2023. Winners will be announced June 2023.

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Windrush Foundation Celebrates 25 Years of Heritage and Community Advocacy: 1995 – 2020

In 1995 Sam King and Arthur Torrington worked to establish a CHARITY …

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KS2 & KS3 Lesson Plans for Studying the Empire Windrush and Caribbean Migration

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PREVIOUS WINDRUSH FOUNDATION ZOOM EVENTS

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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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BIRTH OF THE WINDRUSH GENERATION

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BIRTH OF THE WINDRUSH GENERATION

Community Champions

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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Sonia Brown

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I am a businesswoman, entrepreneur and social networker, and founded theNational Black Women’s Network (NBWN) …

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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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