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 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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