Faith & Minority Ethnic (FAME)Network & Civil Service Race Forum (CSRF) - Celebrating Windrush Day

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Join FAME & CSRF celebrate the accomplishments & influences of the Windrush Generation on Art, Sport, Education, Work,Culture, Music & Food

About this event
To celebrate WINDRUSH DAY, The Faith and Minority Ethnic (FAME) Network and The Civil Service Race Forum will be hosting an event, paying tribute to the Indian-Caribbean community in the Windrush Generation – A diverse but largely untold story on Thursday 23rd June 12:30-13:30.

About this event

To honour post war communities from the Caribbean, who arrived on 22nd June 1948 on the SS Empire Windrush, we will observe the annual Windrush Day. Bringing the first group of more than half a million migrants who would go on to not only settle in the UK but make a significant and lasting contribution to its infrastructure, economy, and culture. One of the highlights of this year’s programme will be Suresh Rao’s blog and presentation about the journey of people of Indian -Caribbean heritage from India over 170 years to the Caribbean and their subsequent post-war migration to the UK as part of the Windrush generation, and how their largely untold story has contributed the UK as we know it today.

We will be highlighting how the Windrush generation has massively contributed to Britain by the influencing of work, food, sports, culture, art and music.

We will be joined by a number of speakers who will be talking about their journeys, experiences and heritage.

Programme

12.30 - Sarah Munby , Permanent Secretary of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Welcome and event overview

12.35 - Suresh Rao, Economist, Business Frameworks Analysis , Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy – The history of migration from India to the Caribbean and from the latter to the UK during the Windrush period.

12.45 - Ricky Belgrave, Chair, Race Equality & Human Rights Staff Network - Impact to music, art, culture and how that it Is demonstrated in Notting Hill Carnival.

12.55 - Allyson Williams MBE, - reflections on her experience of working as a nurse in the NHS.

13.05 - Pamela Swarby, Head of Net Zero Innovation Portfolio Management Office , Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - reflections on her journey in the Civil Service, drivers, influences and heritage.

13.15 - Q & A

13.30 – Close of event

Our speakers will be covering the following areas:

• Reflections from Jamaican migrants - the Windrush 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Generations.

• 5 Artistic disciplines - Caribbean influence on dance, music, theatre, media and visual arts.

• Experience of working in the NHS as a Windrush midwife.

We will make space for some Q&A to our panellists at the end of the session, so please come armed with your questions.
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