by Windrush Foundation | Feb 28, 2022 | News, PREVIOUS EVENTS
Celebrating Windrush Women SUNDAY 13 MARCH I 7PM- 9:00PM This virtual event discusses the lives and contributions of pioneering Women of the Windrush generation. Come along and hear new information about them. All are welcome to celebrate the Windrush Women. Where...
by Windrush Foundation | Feb 8, 2022 | News, PREVIOUS EVENTS
Remembering Sam King MBE SUNDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2022 | 7PM TO 9PM The event looks back at the life and contribution of WWII RAF ex-serviceman Samuel B. King MBE. He arrived in England on MV Empire Windrush on 22 June 1948 and was the one who organised the first public...
by Windrush Foundation | Jan 15, 2022 | News
Remembering Lord Woodbine The event looks back at the life and times of WWII RAF ex-serviceman Harold Phillips aka Lord Woodbine who was the first musical mentor of The Beatles. He was 19 years of age after arriving on the Empire Windrush on 22 June 1948 and later...
by Windrush Foundation | Oct 21, 2021 | News, PREVIOUS EVENTS
ALLAN CHARLES WILMOT (1925 – 2021) ALLAN CHARLES WILMOT (1925 – 2021) Allan volunteered first for the Royal Navy in 1941 when there was a call for volunteer servicemen from Jamaica. He saw an advertisement in the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper when he was sixteen and a...
by Windrush Foundation | Aug 13, 2021 | FEATURED, News
WINDRUSH MONUMENT AT WATERLOO STATION- REDACTED MINUTES OF WINDRUSH COMMEMORATION COMMITTEE In June 2018, the Honourable Teresa May MP announced the formation of the Windrush Commemoration Committee “… commissioned by the Prime Minister to provide advice on how best...
by Windrush Foundation | Jul 26, 2021 | HOME, News, PREVIOUS EVENTS
Still Breathing Saturday 31 July 2021 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm Launch of a collection of essays by 100 Black British people about racism. The book is edited by Suzanne Packer, better known for her role in Casualty, and Suzette Llewellyn, for her role in EastEnders. Still...
Finding Home – A Windrush StoryAlford Dalrymple Gardner is one of the few living passengers to have travelled on the Empire......
WINDRUSH FOUNDATION 28 YEARS ONIn 1995, Samuel Beaver King and Arthur Torrington (co-founders) began work on establishing...
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FROM EMANCIPATION TO WINDRUSHMonday to Friday | 10am to 4pm | LEWISHAM COLLEGE, LEWISHAM WAY, LONDON SE4 1UT...
The Windrush LineRecognising the contribution of the Windrush generation, who continue to shape and enrich London’s cultural and social identity today...