We work intensively with young people and senior citizens in the urban areas and communities of Birmingham
"CHANGING PERSPECTIVE
CHANGING LIFE"
In June 1948, a ship docked at Tilbury, Essex, and changed the United Kingdom forever. She was the Empire Windrush, a ship that was originally part of Nazi Germany’s fleet before being captured and repurposed by the British. This vessel, once in the service of the most murderously racist regime in world history, now carried many hundreds of Caribbean people to a new life in the UK, kickstarting the era of multiculturalism in this nation.
They had boarded the ship in Jamaica, where the Windrush had docked en route from Australia to England. The ship ended up carrying 1,027 passengers, of which 802 hailed from across the Caribbean. The majority were men, though there were also sizeable numbers of women and children. Some were mechanics and carpenters and tailors, others were missionaries, boxers, and even piano repairers.
THE STORY OF THE EMPIRE WINDRUSH
LET'S
TALK
ABOUT
HEALTH!
VOWS COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE WILL BE RUNNING A TEN WEEK PROGRAMME AROUND BLACK MEN’S HEALTH & WELLBEING CALL PAUL, AKA ROSIE ON
YOU CAN MAKE A CHANGE
IN THE LIFE
OF SOMEONETODAY
COMMUNITY FOCUS
With help from the community, and working in partnership with other external agencies and organizations, V.O.W.S will be able to achieve its goals, and help to address some of the issues that our young people and senior citizens are facing in our community.
V.O.W.S Community Enterprise is based in Birmingham, which is the 2nd largest multi – cultural and diverse city in the UK. The organisation was launched in 2012 to celebrate the Queens Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics; we were officially registered in 2014. V.O.W.S has an excellent reputation and working relationship with other organisations, local businesses and faith groups, in engaging with the young people, the senior citizen and others in Birmingham and the surrounding areas.
OUR AIM
V.O.W.S will develop and deliver a number of work programmes; on preserving the Windrush Generation Legacy, Health & Wellbeing, Art & Craft, Educational & Social, Visual & Digital activities and other community events that will help to support our families, senior citizens and young people, to create better community cohesion, job opportunities, confidence building, responsibility respectability, leadership and
entrepreneurship.
V.O.W.S will provide some of the basic tools and skills to help young people and individuals to achieve their goals, and being better equipped to take on some of life’s greatest challenges.
OUR FORMER EVENTS
Front Room Exhibition, August 2018
VOWS Community Project, August 22, 2016
V.O.W.S AND THE WINDRUSH
VOLUNTEER
CONNECT WITH US ONLINE