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Year: 2025
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Scraps From the Table: Colonial Britain’s Ongoing Harm to Gypsy and Traveller Communities
Content Warning: This blog contains references to racism, forced displacement, slavery, institutional abuse, forced exclusion, state violence, cultural erasure and intergenerational trauma experienced by Gypsy and Traveller people under colonial and state systems. We live within a colonial system that has, for more than 600 years, labelled Gypsy and Traveller people as criminals, trespassers, and…
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“Yes, We Are Charitable — And We Shouldn’t Have to Explain That.”
Before We Begin You can now find our new explainer graphic —“CIC vs Charity: What’s the Difference?” — right below this post.We made it after this week’s unexpected learning curve. 📨 A Funding Lesson We Didn’t Expect This week, we reached out to a heritage grant fund to ask a simple question: “What’s the best…
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We Will Be Here: Proud Gypsy Travellers First Steps into Spoken Word and Craft
“We Will Be Here”: Proud Gypsy Traveller’s First Steps into Spoken Word and Craft at Wild Rumpus This weekend, Proud Gypsy Traveller CIC will take its very first steps into the public arts space—bringing story, skill, and spirit to Wild Rumpus: Leaving No Trace at Homestead Park.As a newly formed community-led organisation, we are proud…
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Proud Partnerships: Celebrating Our Work With Beamish Museum
We at Proud Gypsy Traveller CIC are incredibly proud of our collaboration with Beamish, the Living Museum of the North—especially as they were recently awarded Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025, the world’s most prestigious museum prize. This £120,000 accolade underscores their outstanding commitment to inclusive storytelling and genuine community partnership. Sharing Stories, Connecting People As part of…
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Burn Them Out: When Public Safety is a Smokescreen for Hate
A man stands on a Traveller site. He’s a council tenant. He pays rent. He calmly explains to a news crew that the site is overcrowded, the caravans are too close, and if one goes up in flames, they all will. He asks to work with the council to fix it. What does he get…
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Did We Give You the Kilt and Bagpipes, and In Return You Gave Us Intergenerational Trauma?
Did we give you the kilt and the bagpipe, and in return you gave us silence ? This isn’t a metaphor. It’s a reckoning. For generations, Scottish Gypsy/Travellers were persecuted not only through public disdain but through deliberate, state-backed efforts to erase who we are. In March 2025, the Scottish Government finally admitted it: what…
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We demand The Sun stops publishing hatebait articles targeting Gypsies and Travellers
Open Letter to The Sun and Media Outlets Fueling Hate To the Editors of The Sun and Others Who Trade in Outrage, Your recent article—“Travellers bulldoze Green Belt when residents sleep”—wasn’t journalism. It was rage bait, calculated to provoke fear and hate, not inform the public. And it worked. The story was swamped with toxic comments.…