Retired Caribbean Nurses & the NHS Launch

Official Retired Caribbean Nurses & the NHS Launch

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Retired Caribbean Nurses & the NHS Launch

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Your Hackney-based women’s Arts Champion Black Women in the Arts, warmly invites you
the launch of our new Heritage-Lottery funded project ‘ Retired Caribbean Nurses & the NHS’.

The official Retired Caribbean Nurses & the NHS project launch date is:
Saturday 19 October 2013 and will be held at:

London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London.  EC1R 0HB.

Arrival & Registrations:  11.00 – 11:55

Launch Start:  12:00p.m     Ends:   3.00pm

Light Refreshments Available

This is a FREE event

You are welcome to invite retired nurses and potential volunteers known to you as that will help us publicise the project widely and offer opportunities to a wide range of people.

Want to attend, call the project hotline on 020 8520 9401

Hackney Museum and London Metropolitan Archives  are key partners in the launch and execution of Retired Caribbean Nurses & the NHS at the premises of London Metropolitan Archives  19  October 2013 .  This event will bring together partners, retired nurses and volunteers to begin exploring what is the true legacy of this group of mainly women.

Want to attend, call the project hotline on 020 8520 9401

Retired Caribbean Nurses & NHS Project Welcome Community and Individual Participation

Invitation to retired Caribbean Nurses to join the RCN & NHS Project

There will be speeches, entertainment, lunch and networking.  Do come along as your presence will make the event interesting and special.

We look forward to hearing from you.

RSVP – Black Women in the Arts

Email:  enquiries@blackwomenart.org.uk

Email:  info@retiredcaribbeannurses.org

Telephone (Project Direct-line):  020 8520 9401

Please note this event is no longer available.

Retired Caribbean Nurses & NHS Outreach Dalston Square 2013

An earlier outreach in Dalston Square of the Retired Caribbean Nurses & the NHS  project  was conducted. The aim to reach as many retired nurses living in Hackney and enrol them into signing up for the project, to attend the launch schedule for 19 October 2013 and or agree to be interviewed by volunteers for the project.   It was a great afternoon,  the two key personnel who supported the outreach were the the project officer (Glenor Roberts) and the project manager from Black Women in the Arts (Beverley Davis).  The intent to inform Hackney residents and those visiting Hackney about the project its different parts and aims of the project:

Retired Caribbean Nurses & the NHS

Retired Caribbean Nurses & the NHS is an exhibition and oral history project that chronicles the experiences of retired nurses.   These are individuals who were recruited from the Caribbean to the UK from 1949 onwards.  

They were trained as nurses in the United Kingdom, between then and 1970.  The have lived, trained and/or worked in the East London Boroughs of Hackney and Newham.

 

In the afternoon,  we received a unexpected visit fromiane Abbott (MP for Hackney and  North and Stoke Newington).  A visit from the Labour MP , but we were delighted to welcome her to the stand, and talk with her about the project and its aims.

Diane Abbott at Retired Caribbean Nurses & NHS Outreach Stand 2013