Tilbury Carnival (Windrush)

Inspired by the Empire Windrush’s landing at Tilbury Cruise Terminal, our project will engage Tilbury school children and residents in a programme of educational workshops that culminate in a celebratory Windrush carnival. This includes developing a mass movement response by local dancers; making 30 silk flags reflecting the Windrush Generation drawing on the contemporary stories of Tilbury’s immigrant communities; and puppet building and training to animate ‘the Children of Windrush’ – 2 child puppets to join Tilbury’s iconic 16ft docker puppet. Through carnival, these elements – dance, flags and puppets – will all educate, commemorate and celebrate the Windrush story.

The key deliverables required are:

1. Provide coordination of the agreed activity plan (see appendices), focussing on ensuring community engagement and smooth logistic operation across all project strands (see Appendices)
2. Manage the logistical arrangements for the dance element, including setting up dance workshops, liaising with Jeanefer Jean-Charles and ensuring that attendance and participation targets are met
3. Manage the logistical arrangements for the flag element, ensuring that attendance and participation targets are met in liaison with Kinetika and One Community
4. Manage the logistical arrangements for the puppet element with Gateway Academy, Tony Mason and Smoking Apples, ensuring that attendance and participation targets are met
5. Oversee the logistical arrangements for the Norwich Exchange, including transport of artists and participants, in liaison with One Community Development Trust
6. Oversee the marketing campaign being delivered by a social media freelancer and a PR consultant, ensuring that the right information and content gets to them at the right time
7. Collate an event management plan to ensure the Carnival event is delivered smoothly, including booking the sound arrangements, liaising with artistic team to ensure logistical arrangements and associated event arrangements.
8. Prepare Risk Assessments for each project activity
9. Work with Thurrock Council and Port of Tilbury Police to arrange road closures for the Carnival event
10. Attend 6 steering group meetings (1 per month: March – July; September)
11. Manage the budget under the direction of Tilbury on the Thames Trust.
12. Support the collation of data across all project activities to inform the project evaluation
13. Act as an advocate for the Tilbury Carnival project throughout the project

A summary of key activities, dates and targets is included along with a visual summary of the project plan as an appendix to this brief.

The maximum fee available for this work is £6,000 (incl. VAT)

Written confirmation of acceptance of this brief and fee to be made to:

Scott Sullivan
Tilbury on the Thames Trust
Leslie Ford House
Port of Tilbury
Tilbury
RM18 7EH

scott@sbsa.co.uk

1 session = third of a day (i.e. morning, afternoon, evening)