Windrush Day Celebration Event

TheOrator.Press Business & Leadership Page: Interview At ‘The Windrush Generation Legacy Association’ Whitgift Centre, Croydon

Wednesday June 22 2022

The Windrush Generation Legacy Association (WGLA) Based In The Croydon Whitgift Centre, Celebrated Windrush Day June 2022 With A Day Of Art, Poetry, Storytelling, Comedy, Socialising, Food And Drink On Wednesday June 22 2022.

Run By CEO Deborah Klass, It Is A Local Social Hub For Members of The Windrush Generation, Caribbeans of All Ages And It Warmly Welcomes All Their Friends And Associates. They Have A Regular Coffee Morning And Regular Get Together Events Where They Often Tell Stories, Laugh And Lament.

The Windrush Day Event Was Well Attended And We Spoke To A Number of People Their Including An Artist, A Poet And A Local Businessman.

The Association Is Open To Local Community Members Empathetic With The Windrush Generation, Including Both Men And Women, Black And White, Elders & Youngters, Artists, Creatives & Local Businesses. Website: thewindrushgla.org.uk

The Government of The Day Knew Exactly What They Were Doing When They Invited The Windrush Generation To Britain & Knew Exactly What They Were Doing When They Tried To Get Rid of Them Generations Later.

They Made Laws To Suit Their Own Convenience Each Time.

Lesson Learnt? The British Government Can’t Be Trusted.

Just Look At Party-Gate, Gather-Gate, Boris & Covid

There’s A Reason So Many MPs Are Lawyers!

The Windrush Generation. Those Who Came To Britain On The Ship HMS Windrush In 1948 & Through The 50s & 60s Under Invitation From The British Government To Members of The Commonwealth Countries, Following The End of World War II (In 1945) In Order To Help Rebuild The Country, Which Had Still Not Fully Recovered.

With The Prevailing Policitcal Adverts And Propaganda They Were Effectively Promised A Warm Welcome, A Land of Milk And Honey, And Streets Paved With Gold. Here They Could Work Hard, Make A Good Living, Build A Home And Raise A Family. Readily. Happily. Comfortably.

But What They Got Was An Entirely Different Reality. Cold. Snow. Ice. Police Brutality, Racism, Discrimination In Housing With Signs Saying “No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish”. And Ultimately The Windrush Scandal Which Cost Home Secretary Amber Rudd Her Job In 2018. Wherein They Were Subjected To A Hostile Environment And Told By The Establishment To Go Back Home. The Familiar Chant of The Extrement Right-Wing National Front And All Its Subsequent Versions. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/29/windrush-scandal-caused-by-30-years-of-racist-immigration-laws-report

But They Officially Asked Our Forebears To Come Over. And They Legally, Officially And Respectfully Came Over. And Despite The Official Mistreatment, The Lies And The Shabbiness They Were Subjected To, The Majority Survived. And They Are Staying. And So Are Their Descendents. And So Each Year on The 22nd of June The Afro-Caribbean Community Celebrates Because That’s The Day HMS Windrush Sailed Into Town In 1948 And Saw The Start of The Caribbean Community Officially Contributing To This Country As A Group of People And Changing It For The Better Forerever.

Then As Now, Business Networking, Collaboration, Building Economic Power Through Property, Evidence And Physical Presence, That’s What Counts And Makes A Difference, According To A Windrush Organisation Chairman From The ‘Pardoner’ Generation.

Pardoner: A Personal, But Purposeful, Private Property Funding Club Amongst Caribbean People Who Came To Britain As Part of The Windrush Generation. They Were Denied Banking Services From British Banking Institutions And So Invented Their Own Private Banking System of Pooling Funds And Taking It In Turns To Buy Properties For Themselves And Their Families.

Here’s Our Interview With Simeon Grosset, Chairman Of The Windrush Alliance (UK). We Also Include A Couple Of Our ‘TO.P Pod On A Page’ Interviews With The Founder’s Other Daughter, Francis Harry (Who Is Also A Director) And Feedback on The Event From One of The Visitors. It’s Important, Historical, Educational, Reflective of Caribbean Enterprise, And Inspirational.

The Chairman Explains What It Was Like For Members Of The Caribbean Community Trying To Establish Banking Services And A Business Community Back In The Day During 70s, 80s & 90s And Trying To Work With The Government of The Day. And What He Feels About The State Of Play Today. Plus He Also Shares A Few Sage Words of Advice For Continuing To Move Forward Generationally.

The Orignal Black Business Network

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The 1990 Bank of England Black Business Awards

The Importance of Economic Power,

Owning Property

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Business Networking

Windrush Alliance (UK) Chairman Putting His Money

Where His Mouth Is

And Supporting TO.P’s

‘£70 For 70 Years’ Fundraising Drive

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It Was Brixton Based Community-Minded Entrepreneur Basil Linx (Pictured Right) Who Later Helped Convince The Banking World That To Afford The Black Community Official Credit Like They Do Everybody Else – By Setting The Example Himself. During Our Interview With Him In June 2021 We Also Discovered That He’s Superceded That And Is Now Something of A Block Chain Expert. As Well As Being The Owner of Vegan Restaurant Food Chain Eat of Eden And Health & Well-Being Shop Pempamsie.

The Royal Coat of Arms Features On Acts of Parliament

A Selection of Various Flags Representing Countries of The Commonwealth.

Jamaica
Antiqua & Barbuda
Ghana
Nigeria
Barbados
St Lucia
St Vincent & The Grenadines
Bahamas
The Commonwealth Flag
The Union Jack of Great Britain

Angela Henrique (Pictured Above) Helps CEO Deborah Klass Run The ‘Windrush Generation Legacy Association’ (WGLA), Based On The Upper Level of Croydon’s Whitgift Centre. It Is Very Accessible, Welcoming And Inclusive.

As Well As Providing A Safe Space For Windrush Seniors And Supporters, Where Different Talks Can Be Had And Tales Can Be Told About Various Experiences In Britain Lived Through By Members of The Windrush Generation And The Importance of Upholding Certain Cultural Traditons, The Ladies Have Embraced One of Britain’s Finer Social Traditions of The Summer Season And Organise Annual Trips To Royal Ascot. And This Has Proven Very Popular.

Mrs Jeanette Thompson (Pictured Below) & Her Husband Des Are Regular Attendees of The Very British Annual Royal Ascot Racing Event And WGLA Regulars @AscotRacecourse

Mrs T’ Read A Very Moving Poem About Her Late Father’s Windrush Experience As A Former Serviceman In The British Royal Navy, Who Came From Barbados.

This New Windrush Monument Was Unveiled At Waterloo Station On The Same Day (Wednesday June 22 2022) By Prince William And Kate, The Duke And Duchess of Cambridge, In The Afternoon, After They Paid A Surprise Visit To The Newly Established Arts, Performance, And Theatre Hub In The Brixton, On Coldharbour Lane, In The Morning @BrixtonHouse brixtonhouse.co.uk basilsculpture.com

The Windrush Adventurers Did Not Really Know What They Were Getting Into When They Left Their Hot Sunny Climes To Come And Help Out The Land of Empire. But They Soon Found Out. And It Was Rough. And It Was Tough. And In Some Instances It Was Bloody. Brutal. Fatal. And Murderous. There Remains Much Loss And Much Healing To Be Done.

But Ultimately The Majority of The Windrush Generation Survived. And Now Many Decendants Have Been And Remain Ready To Thrive. However This Is Only Possible After Many of The Early Arrivals Had To Fight The Good Fight For Survival, Recognition And Respect, Better Housing Conditions, Working Conditions, And The Exposure of Chronic Police Harrassment And Casual Day To Day Prejudice & Discrimination.

Vivienne’s Feedback From WGLA Windrush Day June 22 2022 Celebration

More Change From The Bank

Since The Rise & Fall of Grossett’s Original Black Business Network, Members of The Current Generation of Business Entrepreneurs Have Established A New, Annual, Week Long Event Called ‘The UK Black Business Week’ Which Culminates With Its Flagship Last Day The UK Black Business Show’ (And After Party).

Tickets Are Available To Buy Online From The Website.

TO.P Attended Their Inaugural Launch Week In November 2021, Where We Saw The Likes of MOBO Founder @kanyaking And Former BBC Diversity Director @junesarpong Address The Large Audience At The Queen Elizabeth II Centre, London, Victoria, With Stories About Their Journey To The Top And Moving Forward.

There Were Many Business Exhibitors Too Showcasing Their Brands And Giving Talks. And Great Opportunities To Network.

During The Week Long Business Fare There Were A Number of Online Seminars As Well As Presentations And Social Events In Person. The Event Has Been Growing Ever Since.

The UK Black Business Show Is Run By Raphael Sofoluke And His Wife Opeyemi (Authors of The Book ‘Twice As Hard: Navigating Black Stereotypes And Creating Space For Success’)

Their Exclusive Headline Sponsor Is HSBC (hsbc.com) Which Is A Far Cry From When Banks Were Not Willing To Help The Black Business Community. At The WGLA Event Comedian @rudi Lickwood Delivered His Him Honoured Joke About The International Nature of Certain British Things And Establishments..

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