Hackney has been awarded £10,000 from the government’s Windrush Day grant scheme.

The funding is to help celebrate the outstanding contribution of the Windrush Generation and their descendants.

Hackney Council is one of 50 organisations across the country who have received funding.

The fund will see various events taking place for Windrush Day on 22 June, the day the Windrush docked at Tilbury over 70 years ago.

Hackney’s fund will see a celebration for Windrush elders take place at Stoke Newington Town Hall on 22 June.

There will also be a micro grant system to fund smaller community projects right across the borough, an intergenerational Caribbean baking project for elders and young people, alongside creative and cultural projects to immortalise the communities contribution to Hackney. For further details click here.

Last year Connect Hackney celebrated the lives of the Windrush Generation with the publication Windrush: Stories of a Hackney Generation. Click below to see an online version of the Windrush publication.