National Windrush Day

Annual Windrush Day will celebrate Caribbean contributions | The Voice Online

A NATIONAL Windrush Day backed by new government funding will take place on June 22 every year, it has been announced today.

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Patrick Vernon is a social commentator and campaigner and has been at the forefront of several high-profile campaigns on cultural heritage and social justice in the UK over the last decade. He has used experience in senior management in the voluntary and public sector plus his passion in for cultural history to develop new models of thinking around transformation changes in service development, equalities, innovative thinking for social change. He is a trained life coach and mediator where his experience and knowledge has been used for leadership development and public speaking from grass roots organisations to public and private bodies.