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 | 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 | 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...
by Windrush Foundation | Jun 28, 2021 | News, PREVIOUS EVENTS
Armed Forces Day: Honouring Colonel Karl Harris SATURDAY 26 JUNE I 6PM- 7:30PM Karl was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1994, commanded a Germany-based unit during 2015-2017 and has been deployed on seven operational tours, most recently to Iraq (2017-2018)....
by Windrush Foundation | Jun 18, 2021 | News, PREVIOUS EVENTS
Windrush Day with Alford Gardner TUESDAY 22ND JUNE I 6PM- 7:30PM At age 18, he served Britain in the Royal Air Force during WWII, demobbed to Jamaica in 1947, but returned on the Empire Windrush on 22 June 1948 at Tilbury Docks. All are invited to this event in honour...
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...