This Windrush Wednesday I’m not going to say very much, I’m going to leave it all to Professor Laura Serrant OBE and her Poem You Called and We Came.
Her words are incredibly powerful.
Whilst I’m talking about Windrush, ITV have a programme on tomorrow night at 9pm made by Pride of Britain celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Windrush, I don’t know if it’s any good I haven’t seen it, but if you don’t know much about Windrush and why I talk about it a lot then it might be worth having a look, I’ll give it a look and pray that they do justice to our amazing Windrush generation.
There are still a few tickets left for the Hope Gala Ball, as part of the ball we will be hosting an exhibition of the forgotten Windrush men and women who were a crucial part of World War II.
Just head to The Hope Gala Ball page if you’d like to know more about that’s happening on the day and to purchase tickets.
The first woman of the Windrush Generation we are celebrating today is…
Stephanie Boyce.
Stephanies parents arrived in the UK as teenagers, she was however raised in a single parent home on an Aylesbury council estate.
She gained a law degree from London Guildhall University in 1999 and became a solicitor in 2002.
In March 2021 she became the first person of colour and only the sixth female president of the Law Society of England and Wales.
She’s received various awards and signs of recognition – in 2020 she was voted onto the Governance Hot 100 List, in 2021 she made the Power List 100 Most Influential Black People in the UK. In 2022 she received the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire for her leadership of the legal profession during the COVID-19 pandemic and for services to equality, diversity and inclusion.
Stephanie is an amazing example of pushing boundaries and achieving great success, while still remembering where you have come from.
A lot of the ladies that I work with feel that they can’t achieve and can’t succeed because of the trauma they have been through and also because it is still harder for a black woman to succeed in the UK, but not impossible with the right support around them.
Join us at The Hope Gala Ball, where you will help & support you will be putting money into GEM (Global Empowerment Movement) to continue to empower women & girls into leadership.