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The future of Leicester's annual celebration for the Windrush generation, is in doubt, due to a lack of funding.

The Caribbean style high tea to honour the legacy of the people who came to the UK from the West Indies, is held annually in the museum square in the city on New Walk, hosting dance, music and stalls.

The "Windrush Generation" refers to the people who migrated from the Caribbean to the UK, primarily between 1948 and 1971, when the HMT Empire Windrush ship brought the first large group of Caribbean migrants.

However the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government have already allocated their 拢500,000 funding on other projects connected to Windrush, but not this particular event, which is organised by Opal22.

Now, it's left with the community to raise the funds, so it can continue.

Tara Munroe is from the group and Victor Harewood and James Frank, who are Caribbean elders from Highfields, spoke to Kevin Ncube.

In a statement, the government said it's given money to thirty groups to celebrate National Windrush Day, amid a record number of applications for funding to mark the occasion.

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