WILLIKIES EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Report October 2022 – March 2024
Trustees
Kardar Challenger
Margaret Thomas Randolph Patterson
Email:willikiesef@gmail.com
Website: willikiesef.com
1a Strathearn Road, London, SW19 7LH
DECEMBER 1, 2024 CHARITY NUMBER - 1200740
About us
Willikies Educational Foundation is a charity that has been set up to support schools in the Caribbean and enable them to give the young people of these islands the best education possible. We aim to offer practical help, supplying essential school items, from writing materials and books to computers and new buildings.
Alongside of this we are facilitating a cultural exchange between schools in the UK and schools in the Caribbean to improve racial understanding and tolerance.
Finance
The work we have done so far has been financed by grants and donations.
All the books and educational material was donated to us by Hurlingham Books and Heath Books Educational Specialists. The cost of shipping of these items was also donated by Challenger Shipping. Refurbishing the library was paid for by a donation from Challenger Catering.
We received a grant of £3900 from the National Lottery Fund to run a project in conjunction with ABNA to collect Windrush memories that we could then take into schools.
Total income October 2022 – March 2024 £4500 Total payments October 2022 – March 2024 £4100 Total monies carried over - £400
Signed – M A Thomas
on behalf of Willikies Educational Foundation Trustees
Legacy of the Windrush Generation
WEF in partnership with the Antigua and Barbuda National Association ran a lottery funded Windrush project. The aim was to collect memories and photographs of the experiences of those from Antigua and Barbuda who came to Britain between 1948 and 1975. The project was amazing. We held reminiscence sessions with members of the Windrush generation in locations around London.
From this, a book was written, exhibitions held and we created workshops for schools using memories and experiences of this generation.
We held Windrush inspired workshops at a primary school in the London Borough of Sutton. We looked at food that people eat in the Caribbean. The children then learnt a song that came from black influenced music, with the moves to go with it!
Nelvie N Gore Primary School
Early in 2023 WEF sent a shipment of books and educational material to Nelvie N Gore Primary School in Antigua. The material had been donated to us from several sources, including Hurlingham Books and Heath Books Educational Specialists. The books were shipped to Antigua free of charge by Challenger Shipping.
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Over the summer holidays we paid for the library to be refurbished to accommodate the new books that we had sent.
OUR WORK IN THE UK
For Windrush Day 2023 WEF went into Stanley Park Infants school, Carshalton in the London Borough of Sutton.
We gave a talk to the whole school about the people who were invited to come from the Caribbean from 1948 to live and work in Britain. Kardar and Randolph told the children about the experiences of their families when they first came to England from Antigua and Jamaica.
The children were asked to draw pictures of their world which we sent to Nelvie N Gore and the children in Antigua sent back pictures of their world.
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