Windrush Anchor Campaign

Raise the Windrush anchor – and make it a statue to modern Britain | Patrick Vernon

On this inaugural Windrush day, I propose that the anchor would stand for racial equality and shared history, says cultural historian Patrick Vernon

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.