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 […]
The Price of Being “Strong” There’s a question that has been burning inside me for a long time, and it’s one I can’t keep swallowing anymore: Where is my grace? Who gives me sympathy? As Gypsy and Traveller staff, we […]
This week at Redbourn’s Traveller site, fire tore through nearly every home. No one died—but most families lost everything. Their homes. Their belongings. Their security. And they lost it in a way that wasn’t just tragic—it was preventable. Let’s be […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
During the last few months we have been working behind the scenes. We have been asking questions and offering support and guidance. people are tired of councils doing little or nothing to put right historic wrong doings. Short term funding […]
The Scent of Death Hung in the Air I left my family singing and telling ghost stories and I walked into the village to buy bread. My little sister danced happily around the fire as my mother prepared the meal.I […]
I woke up this morning and checked my social media feeds. I always find it fascinating to scroll through the local area pages to find out what atrocities we Gypsy and Traveller people may have committed. “Gypsies pulled on playing […]