AWEF Benefit Concert

An evening of music, culture and entertainment raising funds for AWEF’s charitable mission. Friday 20 November 2026, 6pm to midnight, at the Marcus Garvey Centre, Nottingham. Tickets £27.

AWEF Benefit Concert

Friday 20 November 2026, 6pm to midnight, at the Marcus Garvey Centre, Lenton Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 2BY. An uplifting evening of music, culture and entertainment raising funds for AWEF’s charitable mission.

Tickets: Benefit Concert £27 · VIP All Day Ticket £95 (the concert and the daytime Business Expo) · VIP Sponsor £3,500 (brand the VIP section and host a private VIP reception for 10, with 3 minutes of speaking time). Prices include the ticket fee.

Coming for the day? The AWEF Business Expo runs from 10am to 4pm at the same venue and has its own tickets.

From heritage to the future

The Marcus Garvey Centre is much more than an event venue. Completed in 1931 as the headquarters of the Raleigh Bicycle Company and designed by the Nottingham architect T. C. Howitt, the building later became deeply connected with Nottingham’s African Caribbean community.

The ballroom was reopened in 1981 by the West Indian Cavaliers as a music venue and became known as the Marcus Garvey Ballroom, or “the Garvey”. It has since served generations of Nottingham’s Black and African Caribbean communities as a place for music, culture, celebration, community connection, education and social support.

The venue is named after Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican political activist, journalist and Pan-African leader whose legacy is associated with Black pride, self-determination, enterprise, cultural identity and international African unity. This event is both a celebration and a continuation of that legacy.

The evening

• Music, culture and entertainment from 6pm
• Catering by Grandmother’s Kitchen
• Bar run by the Marcus Garvey Centre

Part of the International Cultural Exchange and Development Programme. With Preston Harris, AWEF Global Ambassador.