What We Do

Proud Gypsy Traveller CIC works where communities need support, where evidence is being ignored and where systems need to change.

Our work is led by ethnic Gypsy and Traveller people and informed by lived experience, professional expertise and the knowledge held within our communities.

We work across Yorkshire and nationally.

Planning advocacy and welfare reports

Planning decisions affect far more than land. They determine whether families have stability, whether children can remain in education and whether health, disability and welfare needs can be properly met.

PGT supports Gypsy and Traveller families through planning processes and produces culturally informed welfare evidence for planning applications and appeals.

We help decision-makers understand the human consequences behind technical reports, policies and enforcement action.

Community advocacy and practical support

Many people approach PGT after being ignored, misunderstood or passed between services.

We help community members explain what is happening, understand their options and communicate with the organisations responsible.

Our approach is culturally appropriate, straightforward and honest. We will not create false expectations, but we will not quietly accept discrimination or poor treatment either.

Community-led research

Gypsy and Traveller communities are frequently researched but rarely control the questions, methods, funding or conclusions.

PGT conducts research with communities, not on them.

We use trusted conversations, oral evidence and community-led approaches that allow people to participate in ways that feel safe and meaningful. We turn what people tell us into evidence that can influence policy, funding and services.

Dialogue-led training

We do not believe that understanding can be delivered through a generic presentation about somebody else’s culture.

Our training creates honest, facilitated conversations led by Gypsy and Traveller lived experience.

Participants can explore difficult questions, challenge stereotypes and consider how their own organisation’s decisions affect real people.

This is not about ticking a cultural-awareness box. It is about changing practice.

Policy and systems change

Poor outcomes are often described as community problems when they are actually created or worsened by policies, services and institutions.

PGT uses community evidence to challenge that thinking.

We respond to consultations, contribute to policy development and work with organisations prepared to confront structural discrimination. We bring the voices normally missing from decision-making directly into the process.

Heritage and storytelling

Our history has too often been written by institutions that misunderstood us—or harmed us.

We support Gypsy and Traveller people to record, protect and share their own histories through oral testimony, writing, exhibitions, research and creative work.

These stories are not simply heritage. They are evidence of culture, survival, injustice and resistance.

Commission PGT

PGT works with local authorities, health services, universities, schools, charities, funders and other organisations.

You can commission us to deliver:

• Planning and welfare reports
• Community-led research
• Policy advice and consultation responses
• Gypsy and Traveller training
• Facilitated dialogue
• Community engagement
• Heritage and creative projects

Bring us in while the work can still be shaped—not after the important decisions have already been made.

Not sure where to begin?

Tell us what is happening and what you need.

We will be honest about whether we are the right organisation to help and what the next step should be.