by Windrush Foundation | Jun 27, 2019 | News
SAY NO TO THE GOVERNMENT’S WINDRUSH MONUMENT AT WATERLOO STATION On 22 June 2019, Theresa May MP, Britain’s former Prime Minister, announced that London Waterloo Station had “been confirmed as the location for a permanent Windrush monument”. Using the word ‘confirmed’...
by Windrush Foundation | Jun 18, 2019 | News
LESE Race Relations Committee: Celebrate the Windrush Generation The LESE Race Relations Committee invite you to join them celebrate the Windrush generation and remember the suffering that the Windrush scandal has caused. It is time for a change, in attitude, how...
by Windrush Foundation | May 29, 2019 | News
Windrush 2019 – An Evening of Inspiration & Celebration Commemorating the 71st anniversary of the Empire Windrush arrival. Includes a tribute to the late Asquith Gibbes. Contributors: Dorinda Hulton (Windrush passenger)Damien Egan (Mayor of...
by Windrush Foundation | Jan 2, 2019 | News
Remembering Lord Woodbine @ 90 All are welcome to this event which celebrates the life of an unsung hero. Trinidadian born Harold Phillips served Britain in WWII, was demobbed by the RAF after 1945, but returned on the Empire Windrush in June 1948, and settled in...
by Windrush Foundation | Nov 7, 2018 | News
This W70 finale celebrates Caribbean settkers who have made outstanding contributions to British life and culture after June 1948. The event includes the launch of a free e-publication that features 70 Windrush Pioneers and Champions, and a ‘Key Stage 2’...
by Windrush Foundation | Jul 2, 2018 | News
FREE EXHIBITION: Friday 1st June – Sunday 21st October 2018 Welcomed by some as ‘Sons of Empire.’ Vilified by those spreading fears of a ‘black invasion.’ 70 years since the Empire Windrush carried hundreds of migrants to London, hear the Caribbean voices behind the...