#WindrushLegacy
Today’s the day! 

Join us for our #Windrush Cultural Celebration Day
2–6pm

🎧  Three Generations of Deejays 
🎤 Live performances
🍷 #Caribbean food and drinks on sale

📍 Jamaica House, Leeds
🆓 Free

📸 2024. Photo: R. Jones

With #Leeds St Kitts & Nevis Association

#WindrushLegacy
#Heritage
July 4, 2026 at 7:14 AM
Honouring the Past, Shaping the Future. Today we honour the "Windrush Generation" and their descendants for their enormous contributions to British society. 

 #Windrush #windrushday #WindrushLegacy #windrushgeneration #UKHistory #britishsociety #afrocaribbean #history
June 22, 2026 at 8:30 AM
❤️💛💚 An incredible Windrush Cultural Day! 🇯🇲🇰🇳

Yesterday was pure magic. ✨ Leeds was bursting with talented singers, dancers, musicians and storytellers. Our elders relived the songs of their youth while three generations of deejays kept everyone moving. 🔥
#WindrushLegacy #Leeds
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July 5, 2026 at 6:27 PM
🍛 Join us on Sat 4 July, 2–6pm, for our Windrush Cultural Celebration Day — food, culture, heritage and community.

What We Carried, What We Carry Forward, in partnership with Leeds St Kitts & Nevis Association.

#WindrushGeneration #WindrushLegacy
June 22, 2026 at 12:19 PM
The Jamaica Society Leeds hosts its Annual General Meeting today, 3pm at Jamaica House. As we look back on the financial year May 2024 to April 2025, we celebrate a year of culture, heritage, community and overcoming challenges.

#Windrushlegacy#Jamaica #Leeds
#Community #StrongerTogether
January 17, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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Come rain or shine we’ve got you at Jamaica House! 🌞

Bring your picnic blankets to enjoy our newly refreshed garden.

Or if we’re not so lucky, party under our huge marquee.

YPIP
#WindrushLegacy
#Heritage
#Windrush
July 1, 2026 at 8:17 PM
A look back at our 2024 #Windrush Cultural Celebration Day 📸

☀️Sunshine, #community spirit and #Caribbean culture filled #Jamaica House with music, poetry, storytelling, unforgettable performances and delicious food. 🍲

🎤Join us on Saturday 4 July as we celebrate again!🙌🏾
#Windrushlegacy
June 26, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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We hold the memory of that day close, and this history even closer.

Windrush lives in our stories, our music, our laughter, our gatherings -and in every moment we choose community. ❤️💛💚
📹Maxine O’Nion

#windrushlegacy
#leeds
#windrushgeneration
#caribbean
#community
#heritage
July 19, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Meet the Future. Meet DJ KC. 🔥🎧
Third Generation in our Three The Hard Way Sound Clash, KC is an open-format, multi-genre DJ with 10+ years behind the decks, bringing today’s Black British music scene to life.
#AYDM #WindrushLegacy #Heritage
July 4, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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🎶 Joining us this Saturday!

The Caribbean Breeze Steel Band have been performing together for more than 15 years, bringing the vibrant sounds of the Caribbean to audiences with music that gets everyone smiling and moving.

#WindrushLegacy #Heritage #Windrush
July 3, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Today on #WindrushDay, 77 years since the Windrush’s arrival, we honour the Windrush Generation for their courage, resilience and lasting legacy, including that of my own parents, which continues to enrich our country.

#WindrushDay2025
#WindrushLegacy #WindrushGeneration
June 22, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Join us at:

📍 Jamaica House, 227 Chapeltown Road, Leeds LS7 3HA
📅 Saturday 4 July
⏰ Windrush Cultural Celebration Day: 2–6pm
🔊 Sound Clash starts at 4pm

🎟 FREE ENTRY

Bring the family. Bring your crew. Bring your vibes!

#BlackBritishMusic #Leeds
#WindrushLegacy
July 1, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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✨ We’re thrilled to welcome Professor Jason Allen-Paisant to our Windrush Cultural Day.

🇯🇲Jamaican-born and Leeds-based, Jason is one of today’s leading poets, winner of the 2023 T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Self-Portrait as Othello.
#WindrushLegacy #Heritage #Windrush
July 4, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Join us on #WindrushDay 2026 at our Young Entrepreneurs Expo & Exhibition, Mon 22 Jun, 3–6pm, Jamaica House
Nibbles served
#heritage #Windrushlegacy
June 12, 2026 at 8:07 PM
I welcome the appointment of Rev Clive Foster MBE as the first ever Windrush Commissioner.

With genuine lived experience, his parents immigrated from Jamaica in 1959, and decades of community leadership, he brings authority and empathy to this vital role.

#WindrushLegacy #WindrushDay2025
June 22, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Part of our programme:
What We Carried, What We Carry Forward: Windrush Legacies for the Generations

In partnership with Leeds St Kitts & Nevis Association
Funded by Windrush Grant Scheme

#WindrushLegacy #Community
June 17, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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Yvonne English, widow of RAF veteran Glen English, delivered a powerful poem that touched everyone present. During the roll call, can and family members spoke veterans’ names aloud and laid roses in their honour.

#WindrushLegacy #LestWeForget
May 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
⏮️ We are celebrating June as Windrush Month with a throwback to Windrush 75 - a citywide tribute to the pioneers who shaped Leeds Caribbean community and the city.
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#WindrushLegacy
#Heritage
June 28, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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On Friday 8 May, we honour veterans like Glen at the Jamaica Society Leeds Memorial Garden Dedication event for Caribbean RAF servicemen.

NOTE: This event is now closed for further rsvps; it’s at capacity.

#BlackBritishHistory
#WindrushLegacy
May 3, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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On VE Day 81, veteran families stood alongside the Leeds & Yorkshire community, dignitaries and cadets from 208 North Leeds Squadron RAF Air Cadets and Bradford Grammar School CCF in a moment generations in the making.

#WindrushLegacy #LestWeForget
May 9, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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🔆 Performer Spotlight

Award-winning Jamaican multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Jamila Falak joins us tomorrow! 🎻 Blending reggae, jazz fusion and soul on the double bass, she is an artist not to be missed.

#WindrushLegacy #Heritage
July 3, 2026 at 7:19 AM
An unforgettable evening at City Hall for the sold-out screening of Barrel Children by @nadinewrites1.bsky.social a deeply moving film detailing rarely heard stories about Windrush children, trauma & the impact of family separation. Thank you to all who joined us. #WindrushLegacy #BarrelChildren
August 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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🧳 Celebrating what the Windrush Generation carried with them—and what today’s generations continue to carry forward.

🎧 DJ ZEBE
🎧 DJ FLUID IRIE
🎧 DJ KC

Three generations. Three styles. One unforgettable Sound Clash.

#SoundSystemCulture #WindrushLegacy
June 29, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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📝 Our participatory Reflection Wall invites you to share the values, experiences and legacies passed from one generation to the next.

What We Carried, What We Carry Forward is a chance to reflect, remember and imagine the future together.

#WindrushLegacy #Leeds
June 21, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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On Friday 8 May, we extend that honour to him and to all Caribbean servicemen through the dedication of our Garden and plaque in their memory.

A permanent tribute to a special generation.

Never forgotten. Their legacy lives in all of us.

#WindrushLegacy #CaribbeanRAF
#LestWeForget
May 6, 2026 at 8:52 AM