The Windrush Day Grant Scheme supports groups to commemorate, celebrate and educate people about the contribution of the Windrush generation and their descendants across communities in our country. Funded projects will help 
people join together in celebrating the arrival of the MV Empire Windrush.
The grant scheme forms a part of the Government’s commitment to level up opportunity across diverse communities and help build greater trust in public services while improving outcomes for everyone and forging a greater sense of belonging.
The Windrush Day Grant Scheme 2024 will focus on bringing communities together – across different ages and ethnic backgrounds – to commemorate, celebrate and educate their local area about the contribution of the Windrush Generation and their descendants across the United Kingdom.
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) is offering up to £500,000 in grant funding to support a new cohort of impactful and ambitious projects across England and Northern Ireland. There are two tiers of funding:
- Tier 1: smaller projects, of a value between £5,000 and £24,999
- Tier 2: larger projects, of a value between £25,000 and £50,000
The fund is looking for projects to focus primarily on at least one of the overarching aims of the Windrush Day Grant Scheme, as follows:
- To educate people about the Windrush story. Projects will build awareness of historical facts and deepen understanding about the Windrush generation and their descendants. This includes the pioneers who arrived on the MV Empire Windrush in 1948, and those who came on vessels and planes in the decades afterwards
- To foster a greater sense of national pride and recognition of the historic and ongoing contributions made by the Windrush generation and their descendants to UK society. The
- Windrush generation and their descendants have contributed a great deal to society over more than seven decades. The scheme invites proposals for projects that proactively support and enable people from different backgrounds to embrace this aspect of our shared history
- To develop the skills and entrepreneurial ambitions of young people. To inspire the next generation of young leaders to learn new skills to encourage them to pursue their aspirations and contribute to the social capital of society in the UK
- To celebrate and commemorate the continued contributions of the Windrush generation to the UK. Projects should commemorate and recognise how much the Windrush generation
- and their descendants have brought to and done for the UK
Deadline: 17 December 2023