Baroness/Actress/Writer/Campaigner

London UK
Joined July 2009
Floella Benjamin retweeted
A Windrush claimant who first received nothing was awarded £295,000 once pro bono lawyers took the case. Floella Benjamin challenged the government to fund legal advice for victims facing a 44-page claim form and over 100 pages of guidance. @FloellaBenjamin
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Floella Benjamin retweeted
✨ As part of our RTS London Centre 50 years celebrations, join us for a special evening with Baroness Floella Benjamin! A TV pioneer who’s spent 5 decades educating, entertaining & changing lives. 🎟️ Book : tinyurl.com/2hnfk3kn #RTS #FloellaBenjamin #Television
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Studying contrasting place and using different tones to express it. Year 4 Inspired by the story of Floella Benjamin and her move from Trinidad to England. @FloellaBenjamin @Artsmarkaward @WjgsS
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth. I adapted my book ‘Coming to England’ for the @BBC to celebrate our history and it won an @RTS_media award back in 2003. So proud. Hope you enjoy watching the film it was made with love @CBeebiesHQ share.google/mQ0R2nGfeOLHAaB…
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Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my #Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. @CBeebiesHQ ❤️
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Thank you everyone for your happy birthday wishes especially from my #Playschool Babies. I feel truly blessed. Sending virtual hugs to you all full of joy and happiness. Keep smiling ❤️❤️
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Feeling blessed today on my 77th birthday ❤️
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Happiness is like an elusive butterfly, when you find it grab it with both hands and place it deep in your heart ❤️
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Thank you @Konnie_Huq for this nostalgic interview it brought back lovely memories❤️@CbeebiesHQ @BBCOne - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story, "People would be going to the hairdresser asking for 'The Floella' " bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d7j51…
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So lovely to see this photo on the wall at @BAFTA taken in 1998 of Sir Trevor Macdonald and me as part of their award winners’ collection ❤️
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Replying to @tuteliq
@tuteliq, which develops technology designed to identify online harms as they unfold using technology that examines how conversations develop over time, has become the latest member to join IWF, leading the fight to stop child sexual abuse. Read more at iwf.org.uk/news-media/news/n…
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My handsome dad would have been 100yrs old today.He was an adventurous, talented and clever man who opened his children’s eyes to the world. He & my beloved mum inspired, motivated and encouraged us to be successful in our chosen professions. He may be gone but never forgotten ❤️
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Floella Benjamin retweeted
Yesterday I highlighted that clinicians are using at-home bladder cancer testing to reduce the number of cystoscopies and speed up diagnosis.  I questioned how innovations like these can be spread across the NHS, so access does not depend on where a patient lives.
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Floella Benjamin retweeted
the people's real final match
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Floella Benjamin retweeted
Happy Birthday to God of Children’s TV, #DerekGriffiths (A genius from the same drawer of brilliance as @FloellaBenjamin)
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Replying to @CliveFoster3
@CliveFoster3, as the Windrush Commissioner, can you explain clearly how you intend to use the Hillsborough Law to the advantage of Windrush victims? This law is supposed to place a legal duty on public officials to tell the truth, disclose evidence and cooperate honestly with investigations. Windrush victims need to know how you will make sure those powers are used to uncover what the Home Office did to them. Will you demand the release of every document connected to the Windrush scandal? Will you push for a full statutory public inquiry so officials can be questioned and victims can finally learn who knew what, when they knew it and why innocent British citizens were allowed to lose their jobs, homes, healthcare, pensions, freedom and dignity? Will you challenge missing documents, destroyed records, misleading statements and attempts by officials or departments to hide behind each other? Will you demand that Windrush victims receive proper independent legal representation, just as victims of Hillsborough, Grenfell, the Post Office scandal and the infected blood scandal have fought to receive? Will you support removing the compensation scheme from the Home Office? The department responsible for the scandal should never have been allowed to investigate itself, judge its own wrongdoing and decide how much its own victims deserve. Will you publish a clear plan setting out how the duty of candour will be used to secure truth, accountability, justice and fair compensation for Windrush victims? People are still dying while waiting for justice. They do not need another listening exercise, another apology or another promise that things will improve one day. They need the truth released. They need those responsible held accountable. They need independent legal help. They need fair compensation while they are still alive to receive it. @AndyBurnhamGM @Keir_Starmer @ShabanaMahmood @SeemaMalhotra1 @ukhomeoffice @DawnButlerBrent @HackneyAbbott @BellRibeiroAddy @DavidLammy @ctobierre @GlendaCaesar @ppvernon @JacquiMckenzie6 @WindrushLives @WindrushJC @DefendWindrush @WindrushAction @FloellaBenjamin @WinVoicesFest @uol_windrush @LiverpoolAFW @AllWindrush @100blackbritons @SoniaMeggie @JCWI_UK @Mauddib8 #WindrushScandal #WindrushJustice #HillsboroughLaw #DutyOfCandour #Justice4Windrush #JusticeDelayed
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Floella Benjamin retweeted
Flicking across the channels and came across @FloellaBenjamin reading the @CBeebiesHQ bedtime story. Stayed to watch and pretended I was back watching Play School when everything was safe. Thanks Floella
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