Vice Chair and Founder Gemma Collins said:- “This year will mark 75 years since the arrival of the Empire Windrush ship from the West Indies to Britain in 1948, a year which coincided with the birth of the NHS. The 2 events were very much linked. This is going to be quite a big event for Southport and we would love to see lots of people becoming involved. Windrush Day is celebrated on 22 June every year; the date the HMT Empire Windrush arrived in the UK. The night before, at 5pm, on:- Wednesday, 21 June 2023, the Windrush Flag will be raised at Southport Town Hall. We would like to mark that with an intimate ceremony. Thursday, 22 June 2023 will be Windrush Day and then we will hold our Windrush event in the Town Hall Gardens in Southport on:- Saturday, 24 June 2023.  It is a free event and everyone is invited to come and join us. Our community group was started by myself and my friend, Nadia. We are celebrating the diversity of the people of Southport, welcoming people of all backgrounds. As descendants of the Windrush Generations, we feel it is really important for our local community to acknowledge and to see the importance of the contributions that have been made by people from the Windrush generations and what they did to help rebuild this country, their mother country - and to build the National Health Service in the years after the 2nd World War."

For more details about Windrush 75 in Southport please email:- AfricancariBBEANSouthport@Gmail.Com.