Church Leader & Charity Oral History Interviews

Arthur Torrington CBE

Arthur Torrington CBE was born in British Guiana and moved to the UK in the 1960s as a teenager.  In 1996 he and Sam King MBE co-founded the registered charity Windrush Foundation, and The Equiano Society.  Arthur received an OBE for services to Community Relations...

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Dawn Hill CBE

Dawn Hill CBE played a leading role in setting up and running the governance of the Black Cultural Archives (BCA) when she worked alongside its founding chair: the community activist, photographer, historian, and educationalist, Len Garrison (1943-2003).  She...

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Dr Joe Aldred

Dr Joe Aldred is a retired Christian Ecumenist, writer, speaker and broadcaster.  He was a member of the Windrush cross-government working group. He resigned from the group in protest at the government’s failure to repeal its hostile environment legislation. This...

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Dr Pamela Franklin

  Dr Pamela Franklin was born in the early 1960s in Brixton to parents of Barbadian heritage.  Her career as a IT trainer was interrupted in 2011/2012 when she took ill and ended up with a serious spinal disability.  The Caribbean Social Forum, of which she is...

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Mary Atkinson

Mary Atkinson is Campaigns and Networks Manager of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI).  The JCWI has a long history of supporting grassroots communities who status in the UK has been threatened and eroded by ever-changing immigration...

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Rev Canon Christian Weaver, MA, CBE

Rev Canon Christian Weaver, MA, CBE is the spiritual leader and National Superintendent for the Pilgrim Church, UK.  He was born in Antigua and moved to the UK in the 1960s to study art at Leicester College of Art.  He served for 20 years as a Magistrate on...

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Rev Clive Foster, MBE

Rev Clive Foster is a senior pastor in the church, supporting the Local Superintendent and Ministry of the Pilgrim Church.  He is also a social justice campaigner, founder of Nottingham Windrush Support Forum and the Vice Chair of the Windrush National...

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