by Windrush Foundation | Aug 16, 2024 | News
WINDRUSH FOUNDATION 29 YEARS ON FROM LEFT: DONALD CLARKE, GEORGE MASON, SAM KING, ALLAN WILMOT PIONEERING MEMBERS OF THE WINDRUSH GENERATION In 1995, Samuel Beaver King and Arthur Torrington (co-founders) began work on establishing a CHARITY which delivered heritage...
by Windrush Foundation | Apr 22, 2024 | News
Finding Home – A Windrush Story Alford Dalrymple Gardner is one of the few living passengers to have travelled on the Empire Windrush. He is one of 10 whose portrait was commissioned by King Charles, and appears in the BBC’s Windrush: Portraits of a...
by Windrush Foundation | Apr 1, 2024 | News
WINDRUSH FOUNDATION 28 YEARS ON In 1995, Samuel Beaver King and Arthur Torrington (co-founders) began work on establishing a CHARITY which delivered heritage and community services, helping to strengthen the identity of people of West Indian heritage living in...
by Windrush Foundation | Mar 27, 2024 | FEATURED, News
7 WINDRUSH EDUCATION RESOURCES These Windrush Education Resources are based on original stories of ex-RAF WWII serviceman Samuel Beaver King, better known as Sam King (1926-2016). He came up with the idea of commemorating the arrival of MV Empire Windrush, and worked...
by Windrush Foundation | Mar 8, 2024 | FEATURED, News
FROM EMANCIPATION TO WINDRUSH The Exhibition includes texts and images about life in the West Indies from Emancipation in the 1830s when nearly a million Africans in British colonies won their liberty, having been enslaved for all or most of their lives. After August...
by Windrush Foundation | Feb 16, 2024 | FEATURED, News
The Windrush Line Recognising the contribution of the Windrush generation, who continue to shape and enrich London’s cultural and social identity today. BBC RADIO LONDON WINDRUSH LINE INTERVIEW by BBC RADIO LONDON 20 FEBRUARY 2024...