How many Goans are in Swindon?

20,000 Goans
Approximately 20,000 Goans live in Swindon where Honda is the main employer.

How many Goans live in UK?

Moving to the United Kingdom The UK is currently home to over 250,000 citizens from Portugal who make up a significant proportion of the UK’s immigrant population.

Where are Goans originally from?

Goa, India
Goans (Konkani: गोंयकार, Romi lipi: Goencar, Portuguese: Goeses) is the demonym used to describe the people native to Goa, India, who form an ethno-linguistic group resulting from the assimilation of Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Indo-Portuguese and Austro-Asiatic ethnic and/or linguistic ancestries.

Why do Goans have Portuguese surnames?

The Portuguese surnames like Rodrigues and Carvalho are common found among Goan Catholics due to the former Portuguese province of Goa, India and generally follow the second declension.

How many Goans live in Swindon UK now?

By June last year there were more than 20,000 – an increase of 7,000, or more than 50 per cent, in one year. More than half the Goans with Portuguese passports are living in Swindon. The former market town had only about 25 Goans living there in 2000, but now has more than 10,000, said one of the town’s Goan leaders.

Where are the most Goans in the UK?

As per the 2001 UK Census, Swindon had a population of 180,061 of which 1.3% were Indian. Senior Catholic priest, Monsignor Twomey estimates the influx of Goans in recent years to be in the region of 8,000. This would probably make Swindon the city with the highest concentration of Goans anywhere in the world outside of Goa.

Who is the leader of the Goan tribe in Swindon?

Much like the Biblical patriarch Abraham, Agnelo DeMello, the ex-President of the Goan Swindon Association, contends he is the genesis of the growing Goan tribe in Swindon. He moved here from the Gulf some twenty years ago.

When was the Goan Welfare Society ( GWS ) founded?

The Goan Welfare Society (GWS) was founded in March 1983 to provide limited assistance to Goans living in the UK. The responsibility for the Charity was handed over to the Goan Association (UK) when the original Trustees had passed away and in October 2004, it was re-constituted with Trustees appointed by the Board of Directors.