Afro-Irish Links

Slough West Indian Peoples Enterprise (SWIPE) Registered Charity: 1107921. SWIPE was formed in 1997 to help further the education and training of children and young people at risk of being excluded from school. It also offers single parent families and over forty's assistance in the creation of employment opportunities. SWIPE develops and produces high impact community projects for the people of Slough, with effective outputs in a wide variety of activities, including but not exclusively music tuition, as well as dance, music, sports, film, community cohesion and heritage we also continue supporting the celebratory activities of other local charities by offering our support to them with advice, event management and provision of music. SWIPE's recent offer has included music education and performance opportunities, alongside artist development, rehearsal space and recording opportunities. We have collaborated on film soundtracks and additional sound recording in film with partners working on films for the BBC, Channel 4 and others. SWIPE provides opportunity for the Caribbean community to preserve its Heritage and seek to gain funding for this purpose. SWIPE has continued to be seen as an innovative organisation producing high quality projects and has yet again received an award for its work, this time the 2016 Thames Heritage Award from The River Thames Society to compliment the previous awards: Get Berkshire Active Youth Engagement Project of the Year 2015; Winner of Sportivate project of the year South East 2016; National winner of Sport England Sportivate Bronze Award 2016; and Slough Business Community Partnership's Project of the year 2016 in recognition of the work and commitment in establishing the Jubilee Riverside Centre as an excellent facility for local people.