## WILLIKIES EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 

Report April 2024 – March 2025 


**Trustees** 

**Kardar Challenger** 

**Margaret Thomas Randolph Patterson** 

**Email:willikiesef@gmail.com** 

**Website: willikiesef.com** 

**1a Strathearn Road, London, SW19 7LH** 

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.** 

**The visit to Nelvie N Gore was self-financed and not paid for by the charity. The workshops are run free by volunteers.** 

**Total income  – £750** 

**Total payments – £543** 

**Total monies carried over - £168** 

## **Signed – M A Thomas** 

**on behalf of Willikies Educational Foundation Trustees** 



## **Nelvie N Gore Primary School Willikies, Antigua** 


In July 2024 Margaret and Kardar visited Nelvie N Gore primary school in Antigua. We met the teachers and had a tour of the school. The library that we had refurbished and supplied with books and educational material, was, we were told, very popular with the pupils. 


## **OUR WORK IN THE UK** 

For Windrush Day 2024 WEF went into Stanley Park Junior 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 school has been raising money to buy a class worth of tablets to send to Antigua. This 

was one of the resources needed that was identified on our visit to Nelvie N Gore. 

Randolph also gave Windrush presentations to organisations around London as part of Black History Month. 



During the year we had stalls at various events giving information about the Windrush generation and the work we are doing with schools and organisations in the Caribbean.