As 2020 passes and as one reflects on what has been achieved and not achieved, one is humbled in the knowledge that contributions have been made resulting in some changes to British society.

Summary highlights included interactions with Home Office senior officials about their Windrush Compensation Scheme, fifteen Windrush Zoom events since 22 June 2020: some of these programmes (video recordings) can be accessed freely online: www.windrushfoundation.com

More than 110 people (on average, each broadcast) attended our event every week, the highest audience being 183 on 22 June 2020.

Other highlights were eight ‘Empire & Windrush’ Presentations to Immigration Enforcement officers during the past three months. In line with the Recommendations of the Wendy Williams Windrush Lessons Learned Review (March 2020), the Foundation’s Presentations included the ‘British Empire’: Britain’s rise as an Empire and her dependence of the enslavement of Africans in colonies of North America, and West Indian sugar plantations from the early 1600s until 1948; discussions on Caribbean settlement and contributions to the UK after WWII.

Windrush Foundation created a Key Stage KS2/3/4, portable 20-panel ‘desk-top exhibition’ called:

MAKING FREEDOM - FROM EMANCIPATION TO WINDRUSH (1838-1948)

The Foundation’s Education Resource: 70 Windrush Pioneers & Champions, and the KS2 & KS3 Lessons Plans for Studying Empire Windrush and Caribbean Migration, are the most popular free downloads online! www.windrushfoundation.com

Arthur