Windrush Betrayal – chapters 1 to 5

Collage Arts are pleased to support this powerfulΒ project by Martina Laird, creative associate of Collage Voices, who has been working during lockdown to create something of importance that matters to her and fellow producersΒ Lanna JoffreyΒ and Lewis Hart, with the help of over 70Β artists, actors and photographers.

Windrush Betrayal shares the experiences of 50 people whose lives were damaged by the Home Office Windrush Scandal and whose stories we want to be remembered even as they still await compensation.Β  Please watch and share widely, there are 5 chapters.

ALL CHAPTERS:

CHAPTER 1:

CHAPTER 2:

CHAPTER 3:

CHAPTER 4:

CHAPTER 5:

This project is NOT monetised for streaming.

This is the labour of three artists creating something that matters to them with the help of their vast village of generous artists and the generosity of strangers.

Inspired by The Guardian article by Amelia Gentleman ‘Lambs to the Slaughter’: 50 lives ruined by the Windrush Scandal

This project is due to the generosity of Guardian News & Media, Amelia Gentleman, Hanaa Anwar and all artists involved.

We are deeply grateful to those who have shared their stories. Without their bravery, we would not know the truth.

FEATURED STORIES OF:

Jocelyn JohnΒ  |Β Dexter BristolΒ  |Β Lydden LewisΒ  | George PoleonΒ  | Icilda WilliamsΒ  | Jeffrey MillerΒ  | Gbolagade Ibukun-OluwaΒ  | Pauline PennantΒ  | Winston WalkerΒ  | Eddie LindsayΒ  | Anthony BryanΒ  | Bevis SmithΒ  |Β Pauline ClearΒ  |Β Briggs Levi MaynardΒ  | Tony PerryΒ  | Roy HarrisonΒ  | Paulette WilsonΒ  | Noel SmithΒ  |Β  Leighton Joseph RobinsonΒ  | Hubert HowardΒ  | Elwaldo RomeoΒ  | Lloyd GrantΒ |Β  Renford McIntyreΒ  | Glenda CaesarΒ  | Sylvester MarshallΒ  | Michael BraithwaiteΒ  | Vernon VanrielΒ  | Whitfield FrancisΒ  | Judy GriffithΒ  | Richard (Wes) StewartΒ  |Β  Ivan AnglinΒ  | Jashwa MosesΒ  | Valerie BakerΒ  | Kenneth WilliamsΒ  | Edward BromfieldΒ  | Junior GreenΒ  | Hyacinth NaylorΒ  | Gladstone WilsonΒ  | Winston RobinsonΒ  | Sarah O’ConnorΒ  | Andrew BynoeΒ  | Courtney LawrenceΒ  | David Jameson (Not his real name) | Euten LindsayΒ | Margaret O’BrienΒ  | Melvin CollinsΒ | Herman Campbell | Nick BroderickΒ  | Donald Biggs | Donald Thompson

Produced by Lanna Joffrey, Martina Laird and Lewis Hart.

If you or someone you know is from the Windrush generation and needs free guidance on how to navigate the complicated various schemes for citizenship and/or compensation launched by the Home Office, please go to the Citizens Advice website. The current deadline to apply for these schemes is April 2023.

There are also informational Windrush Engagement events to help explain the various schemes.