2022 Windrush Day Grant Scheme – Projects to be funded
A short summary of the projects to be funded under the 2022 Windrush Day Grant Scheme.
Applies to England
A list of the 35 projects to be funded under the 2022 Windrush Day Grant Scheme. The projects are broken down into: organisation name, funding amount, project location and project summary.
1 492 Korna klub London £9,997.93
The project will deliver Windrush Playback Stories (WPS), a 16-week intergenerational storytelling collaboration in Lambeth with Windrush generation members to celebrate, commemorate and educate people about their lived experiences and their contribution to British society. The project will culminate in five WPS events across June to November 2022 which will deepen awareness of the Windrush experience in the cultural fabric of Lambeth so that everyone is aware of the experiences of the Windrush generation. The project will offer intergenerational exchanges and opportunities to make friends from different backgrounds, learn skills and promote new community collaborations with the participants’ and the wider community.
2 BLACK* artists on the move National £22,690.00
The project will deliver workshops to produce publications and a photo exhibition celebrating contributions made by Windrush generation members and their families. Publications will include; a contemporary intergenerational poetry collection on life in Britain; life writing/memoir collections; Children’s stories based on oral histories/traditional tales recounted by African and Caribbean elders and a Photo exhibition documenting lives, experiences, celebrations of Windrush generation. The exhibition will launch on Windrush Day with publications being launched throughout September - December.
3 BOFA INSPIRE CIC West Midlands £13,300.00
The project’s 6-month series of Windrush-themed ‘the taste, tales, sights and sounds of a generation’ events will bring together generations and educate local communities through: food: recipes, ingredients and tips for healthy substitutions to reduce common morbidities (e.g. hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol); stories: sharing Windrush culture through first-hand accounts of migration, growing up, integration, celebration and sorrow; sights and sounds: Learning about the significance of household objects and practices in a ‘Windrush’ home. The project’s legacy will be captured in a ring-bound book with recipes, stories and images from the project and bite-size videos featuring cooking demonstrations and monologues.
4 Bristol Reggae Orchestra South West £21,998.00
The project will create a unique vocal ensemble and orchestral collaboration to celebrate the Windrush generation and their descendants. The project will have reggae artists directly connected with the Windrush generation who will perform with the orchestra and young people who wish to engage through singing in this engaging project. The vocal ensemble and orchestra aims to include multiple voices from local communities and lead to the establishment of a Windrush choir as an independent entity.
5 Caius House London £12,011.00
The project will bring together the local community with Caribbean elders teaching young people how to cook traditional dishes over a period of five weeks to be served at its cultural event on Windrush Day. The project will be documented, capturing stories and conversations that emerge, after which recipes, stories, video and photographs will become a printed and electronic cookery book released in Black History Month. The Windrush Day event will include a roller disco, performances from youth club members, and catering as provided by project participants.
6 CFYDC (chance) Yorkshire and Humber £6,216.00
The project promotes the cultural heritage and legacy of the Windrush generation in the Yorkshire region. The project will deliver intergenerational cooking demonstrations from local elders and a journey of the elder’s achievements will also feature in the cookbook which will be produced. 300 copies of the book to distribute amongst the local and wider community with a launch event held which will include talks, stories and memories of the elder generation. The book will serve as a lasting legacy of cultural dishes and the memories that the first generation of Windrush have of the various dishes selected for the book, what it means to them, their identity and how they created their impact and legacy.
7 Code1 Community Group CIC London £12,970.00
The project will run workshops through which Care Home elder residents and schools will work together to produce a significant work of art that speaks about the Windrush and Black British history. The art will be exhibited with writings from those involved further reflecting their own identity, experiences and journey. We will host a Windrush Day event for 200 people to launch and hold a further black history event to launch a documentary and exhibition to share the art and writings. Local schools and wider community to participate and share the celebration.
8 Devon Development Education South West £14,636.00
The project will deliver a series of activities in the region which will cover education and celebration to mark Windrush Day. This will include a secondary schools’ conference on Windrush Day, Exeter, to explore Windrush: what it was, why it happened and the economic, social and cultural contributions of Caribbean people to Devon and the country. There will be exhibitions, Devon Windrush flag-raising, speeches, and the launch of the ‘Not Just Rice and Peas’ – an educational resource, exploring Caribbean origins of foods with families and filming cooking sequences. A Caribbean cricket festival in August 2022 will celebrate West Indies cricket; with matches for different ages across all communities with food and music.
9 Education 2000 Yorkshire and Humber £17,460.00
The project will deliver a Windrush exhibition across Huddersfield, including a variety of digital media to be exhibited in a variety of locations, including Tolson Museum, Kirklees Council’s Hudawi Cultural Centre, University of Huddersfield and schools and colleges across the area. A further programme of activities will include Windrush generation volunteers sharing experiences with the general public and children/young people in schools to provide deeper understanding of their experiences; a Windrush performance play involving young people from all backgrounds and members from the Windrush generation; a series of online workshops based around heritage, beliefs, customs/culture; and a celebratory end of programme public event.
10 Fresh Arts C.I.C London £21,893.00
The project is entitled The Children of the Windrush Generation Festival, which builds in a meaningful and innovative way on the legacy of last year’s project by inviting schools in target areas of Brent, Harrow, Barnet, Dacorum and Haringey to create an artistic response to the filmed interviews from the 2021 project. These artistic responses will be curated into an online arts festival and published on Windrush Day 2022 alongside a series of Q and A’s with the subjects of the 2021 interviews. Following the event on Windrush day the project will run vocational arts training courses for young people from both the Windrush and wider communities which will explore the work of Caribbean writers.
11 Hackney Co-operative Developments CIC (HCD) London £16,500.00
The project will host a Gillett Square Windrush Heritage Festival of events to showcase the cultural contributions made by British Caribbeans to the wider community in Hackney. This will include a family fun and games day on 22nd June, followed by sound system events, bookending a two-week exhibition of Future Hackney photographs. The sound system events will launch the Windrush Warrior Generation Legacy Community Roadshow, which will go on to tour public venues and spaces like parks or squares around the country in the future.
12 Harrow Club London £5,000.00
The project will run a summer cricket day on Saturday June 18th with older people from the Caribbean community and young Afghan Refugees currently living in local hotels who the club have been working with since September 2021. Local schools and other community groups will be invited to join and play on the day. The main focus is to bring the community together and showcase the passion for sport that has been shaped by migration to the country, both migration from the Windrush generation and recent migration from Afghanistan. The event will utilise exhibits produced from it’s 2019 event, food and drinks will be provided alongside music and games.
13 Humble Gallery London £19,839.00
The project will deliver a programme of educational events, highlighting the stories of female Windrush artists that came to the UK in the 1950s, including the work of textile designer Althea McNish and female members of the Caribbean Art Movement. It also celebrates the emergence of the ‘Black woman’ artist and British born West Indians from the early to mid-1980s, discussing how the impact and importance of this development significantly increased the visibility of black women artists and raised the profiles of well-known female artists including Sonia Boyce and Ingrid Pollard. The project will also celebrate the emergence of the ‘Black woman’ artist and British born West Indians from the early to mid-1980s.
14 Innovai Events CiC London £13,350.00
The project will both celebrate and educate the community regarding the arrival and contribution of the Windrush Generation and their descendants with a unique programme offering that includes a commemorative train trip to Southend with a 1,000 capacity train, followed by a Windrush Ball. The programme of activities will conclude with the hosting of the Windrush Family Games. The project will be interviewing descendent passengers and recording stories of arrival on the train in order to curate a living exhibition that tells the history of the Windrush Generation contributions to Britain.
15 INSPIRING AUDIO LTD National £15,980.00
The project will engage and inspire children of all backgrounds to explore the contribution those who arrived on MV Empire Windrush and what the Windrush Generation have made to British society and our shared history. Working with children in Nottingham, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol and London, the project will record them talking to Windrush Generation relatives, having conversations exploring both history and social context, and explain how these stories fit into all our lives. Ten audio programmes will be created for broadcast on Fun Kids and community stations and available as free podcasts, with online activity resources supporting each programme.
16 Islington Council London £14,952.26
The project will start with a large-scale picnic in Caledonian Park on Windrush Day, celebrating the diversity of the food of Windrush. Stories will be gathered from the Windrush generation living in Islington by young people from the local Prospex youth centre who will be trained in interviewing and editing techniques in their new media suite. These stories, sourced through strong community connections, will be developed through participatory drama and art workshops, culminating in a performance in the amphitheatre in the park.
17 Kainé Management Ltd East Midlands £12,797.00
‘Better Together’ will be a programme launched on Windrush Day and involve local Windrush & wider community members to meet weekly during summer to share Windrush stories and collate stories in preparation of a tour of local schools in September. An online East Midlands network of Windrush members will be established and during Black History Month participants will work intergenerationally with local college students and host a Black History Month showcase commemoration exhibition.
18 London Borough of Newham London £15,000.00
The project will deliver the ‘Windrush: Our Stories’, an innovative community grants programme aimed at promoting pride by sharing and preserving the personal stories of Newham’s Windrush Generation and their descendants. Stories captured through creativity such as theatre, spoken word, music and art will focus on the life the Windrush generation left behind, their experiences of adapting to a new life, their contribution to society. With grants of up to £1,500, community groups and organisations will propose projects that engage the Windrush community in co-creating live and online participatory activities.
19 Mansfield District Council East Midlands £17,949.00
Mansfield residents will be encouraged to learn more about the area’s black history and celebrate the local and national contribution made by the Windrush generation through a new temporary exhibition ‘It Runs Through Us’. The project will collate and give profile to existing research by black history ambassadors as well as undertake research to unearth hidden black history locally. A celebration on Windrush Day will kick start the project followed by a temporary exhibition.
20 Midlands Art Centre (MAC) West Midlands £10,700.00
Midlands Art Centre are presenting a free exhibition of John Akomfrah’s Film The Unfinished Conversation about Stuart Hall - influential cultural theorist and member of Windrush Generation across May and June 2022. The project is keen to extend the programme to celebrate Windrush Day and offer an additional comprehensive community-led programme of events throughout June & July 2022 including; free Public Tours and Talks; a black elders arts programme; and music and spoken word events.
21 National Maritime Museum London £36,195.00
National Maritime Museum will deliver a project named ‘DESCENDENTS’ to celebrate and recognize the contribution that the Windrush Generation and the wider British Caribbean community have made to Britain. Working with community groups, the Caribbean Social Forum, local education partner Plumcroft Primary School and cultural organisations the Garden Museum - a one-day festival in Greenwich will be curated to embrace multiple aspects of British Caribbean life, from music and dance to food and storytelling through objects we hold dear. The festival will also catalyse a youth skills development scheme, moving image work, blogs and a series of ‘in conversation’ talks, across the summer and autumn period.
22 Northern School of Contemporary Dance Yorkshire and Humber £12,000.00
The Northern School of Contemporary Dance is staging sections of the award-winning production Windrush: Movement of the People last seen in 2018 as part of the 70 years celebrations of the Windrush generation. Performances will be free and predominantly staged in Leeds venues also as part of NSCD Colour Festival, sharing this staged narrative to the people in the region who supported its creation and the wider community.
23 Odd Eyes Theatre London £8,486.00
The project will be an intergenerational programme of community theatre, writing workshops and radio podcasts focussing on the Caribbean funerary celebratory tradition of nine night; created to recognise the influence of the Windrush generation, educating audiences about its traditions and celebrate its contribution to British culture. The programme will run in June to include a community production of ‘Nine Night’ by award-winning Jamaican writer Natasha Gordon at Tower Theatre; reminiscence podcasts with senior members of the Windrush generation and their descendent aired on Hackney Social Radio; and celebrations on Windrush Day with a special performance of Nine Night followed by community writing workshops.
24 Pamper Indulge & Give Eligibility London £6,050.00
The intergenerational project will work with pupils from Winterbourne Junior Girls School and bring them together with senior Caribbeans to learn more about the Windrush Generation. This will be an educational and creative project where pupils will engage in online research and host and meet with elderly Caribbeans to share the elements of their lives from travelling from the Caribbean to England. The representatives of the Windrush generation will attend the school at the beginning of the project and return for a special Windrush day celebration being held at the school. The Windrush Celebration will show the work that pupils have created and also appreciate gratitude for the work that the Windrush generation have contributed to modern day life.
25 Pegasus Opera Company London £14,247.00
The Windrush Travelling Songbook (WTS) project through the Pegasus Opera Company will aim to promote local community cohesion by bringing together the young and old from the Lambeth community to celebrate the Windrush generation through education and music-making, while contributing to positive mental health and wellbeing. The project will work with intergenerational groups to capture stories of the Windrush generation and archive them through music performances. The project will involve a Windrush creative summit, a concert with repertoire inspired by the Caribbean diaspora, and a series of music meets history workshops for a primary school and elders group, culminating in a digital songbook resource to then be shared nationwide.
26 Peterborough City Council East of England £23,453.00
Telling the stories of Peterborough’s Windrush generation will be the centre of a celebratory programme in Peterborough that both raises awareness, celebrates, with a long-term legacy of the Windrush Generation in the city. It’ll take place in the form of a special radio programme, dominoes world record championship, sharing food recipes, curry cook off, family activities, dance, Caribbean music, an exhibition documenting the story and a dynamic education programme looking not just the Windrush story in Britain, but also the countries they left and their cultural heritage and traditions. There will be an opportunity for local Peterborough Polish and Italian migrant communities that followed to share their stories with Windrush members through events which promote social mixing.
27 Pimlico Family Workshop Toy Library London £7,850.00
The project will educate the local community, particularly children and carers, about the Windrush story and its significance through a series of coordinated activities and lessons in schools and libraries across south Westminster on Windrush Day 2022 and culminating in a Windrush Day Fete. Continuing the theme of education, the project will create and run a 3-week entrepreneurial skills course for children aged 5-11 years during the school holidays in August 2022, to enhance their emotional wellbeing, resilience and resourcefulness, as well as celebrating British role models from diverse backgrounds.
28 Place At My Table London £10,550.00
The project will deliver a series of creative and cultural intergenerational workshops bringing young people from different backgrounds together with Windrush Generation and descendants, and older generations from the Caribbean community who arrived in Britain after 1948, to document their lives and share Caribbean culture and traditions with younger generations as a way to celebrate and commemorate the contribution of Windrush and wider contributions from British Caribbean communities. A celebratory event will be held on Windrush Day featuring stories, talks and cooking demonstrations.
29 Prime Theatre South West £14,650.00
The project will deliver an interactive school’s theatre tour across June and July documenting a girl’s journey on Empire Windrush and her experiences in Britain. The tour will take an actor and education staff to schools around the Swindon area. Primary and secondary pupils in history and art classes will be helped to create visual and written responses around Windrush experiences to be showcased on BBC Radio Wiltshire & Swindon’s Central library in Autumn and for Black History Month. Further activities will include family weekends of free activities and food allowing more people to have their own Windrush experiences recorded & displayed in Swindon’s history archives.
30 Sheffield City Council Yorkshire and Humber £14,000.00
The project aims to increase representation of cultural and historical assets in Sheffield by collaborating with Windrush community members from all ages to enhance, showcase and jointly create an exciting impactful exhibition that will be owned and shared by all communities in Sheffield. African Caribbean communities will lead equality awareness days (Windrush Day, Race Equality week, Marcus Garvey day and Black History Month) to deliver activities to improve community development, cohesion, and social impact in the area. The month-long programme, driven through consortium-led collaboration, will also improve the visibility of the Windrush communities within our museums, art galleries, city archives, and Sheffield’s expansive outdoor public spaces.
31 Sister System London £7,444.00
The project will deliver the Caribbean Cookouts & Conversation: Sister System X Charlie Phillips ‘Smokey Joe’ X ‘Blooming Scent’ to series of ‘cookouts’ (outdoor cooking) and conversations with LA care-affected young females in Haringey. Activities will educate, celebrate and commemorate the journey, traditions brought, contributions made, significance of food & family and resilience built amongst the Windrush generation. Events will mirror the tradition of gathering outdoors to cook, celebrate, preserve and promote culture through the storytelling artform encouraging a sense of pride, place and purpose whilst hearing Windrush stories from the elders in the local community.
32 The Flowhesion Foundation North West £5,000.00
The project will deliver an exciting and engaging series of workshops in Bolton to educate young people aged 11-18 from black, white British, south-Asian backgrounds about the contribution of the Windrush generation to British life. A Windrush celebration event will be devised by all young people in the workshops to form a ‘Windrush celebration committee’ and co-design, co-produce a Windrush celebration event on Windrush day 22nd June for young people celebrating the contribution of this diaspora. A special edition ‘Lovin’ the Flow- e-magazine on the Windrush generation’ will then be made for distribution amongst young people in the area.
33 The Huddersfield African Caribbean Cultural Trust Yorkshire and Humber £13,000.00
The project is an 8-week steel pan project bringing together multi- generational participants to learn the history of the steel pan and learn how to play. Huddersfield has a history of steel pan musicians bringing their skills and knowledge to the UK during the Windrush years. Windrush Day will host an event for learners to showcase their new talent and tell the story of the history of steel pan. The musicians will then perform at a family friendly event in July. The itinerary includes activities that will bring our Windrush communities, descendants and diverse communities of Kirklees together.
34 Tilbury on the Thames Trust East of England £12,140.00
The project will coincide with the unveiling of the Windrush Monument on 22 June at Waterloo, bringing 180 people down the river to celebrate with the local Tilbury community on Windrush Day. This will include arriving in Tilbury by boat at a celebration in the Cruise Terminal, and on the dock where the MV Empire Windrush originally docked which will be a special event for many people. The displays and performances at the terminal and on the boat will show case hand painted flags telling Windrush stories to the fantastic Walkway of Memories by Evewright.
35 You Are Able CIC East of England £13,912.00
The project will deliver a documentary in Luton about the Windrush generation through the eyes of young people, learning a legacy through the accounts of descendants who had varying ambitions to either settle or envisaged returning to the Caribbean after a period of time. The documentary aims to archive the connections as many of these individuals have since passed away but have left in many cases a verbal history with their children. This intent will be to leave a record that can educate future generations and used a resource. The project plan to place the documentary with Luton Heritage Forum as there is currently nothing of cultural significance regarding Caribbean people within the area.