Windrush Generation - Burngreave Messenger

Ignite Imaginations withdraw from Remember Windrush project

12th June 2021

Ignite Imaginations have offered their withdrawal from the Remember Windrush project following comments questioning why an organisation with a mostly white staffing body and board were given funding. In our latest issue we ran an [Read more]

Party at St James Church marking Windrush.

Windrush generation longing to belong

5th November 2018

Story and photo by Graham Jones On 29th September 2018, St James Church on Scott Road held a party, marking Windrush. The Empire Windrush was a ship that transported Caribbeans to the UK during a [Read more]

The Editorial

18th June 2018

Denial of NHS treatment to the Windrush generation, the loss of jobs, and the withdrawal of welfare benefits has caused deaths, and huge disruption, upset and mistrust by people who have every right to be [Read more]

Tales from the Windrush Generation

18th June 2018

Story by Carrie Hedderwick and Messenger Staff Who are the Windrush generation? On 22 June 1948 the Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks carrying the first Caribbean people who were invited to the UK to [Read more]