Windrush Foundation Celebrating 30 Years

Windrush Foundation Celebrating 30 Years

by | May 20, 2025 | FEATURED, News

Windrush Foundation Celebrating 30 Years Saturday 21 June 2025 from 6pm Join us on Saturday 21 June 2025 from 6pm to mark our 30th anniversary and celebrate the outstanding contribution this organisation has made to the community since 1995. CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE:Janet...
WINDRUSH OBITUARIES | SAM KING

WINDRUSH OBITUARIES | SAM KING

by | Dec 1, 2024 | News, Profiles

WINDRUSH OBITUARIES SAM KING King at the launch of the War to Windrush exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in 2008. He served with the RAF GETTY IMAGES Sam King – 1926 – 2016 Sam King was one of 492 Jamaicans who arrived at Tilbury Docks on Empire...
WINDRUSH FOUNDATION 29 YEARS ON

WINDRUSH FOUNDATION 29 YEARS ON

by | 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. © Getty Images. In 1995, Samuel Beaver King and Arthur Torrington (co-founders) began work on establishing a CHARITY which...
Finding Home – A Windrush Story

Finding Home – A Windrush Story

by | 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...
FROM EMANCIPATION TO WINDRUSH

FROM EMANCIPATION TO WINDRUSH

by | Mar 8, 2024 | 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...