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When You Grow Gills: The Fight We Inherit
Community Voices and Stories · Education and Young People · Research, Policy and Systems Change · Rights, Racism and JusticeAt 47, I finally understand why my mam was tired. A personal reflection on the reports, the repeated fights, and what we pass from one generation to the next.
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“You’re Lucky – You Can Hide It”
When invisibility becomes the price of acceptance I have been told something several times in my life that has started to bother me more, rather than less, as I have got older. Sometimes it has come from professionals. Sometimes from perfectly well-meaning people. It has even come from other people who understand racism and discrimination…
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PGT Statement on the New National Planning Policy Framework
Proud Gypsy Traveller CIC welcomes important elements of the new National Planning Policy Framework and, in particular, a greater recognition that the shortage of lawful Gypsy and Traveller accommodation cannot be solved through enforcement alone. Earlier this year, PGT responded to the NPPF consultation drawing directly on our planning advocacy, welfare reporting and work alongside…
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Two Versions of the Same Meeting: When Schools and Gypsy & Traveller Parents Leave With Different Stories
Today the school has responded to us directly, explaining that the meeting was intended to discuss upcoming curriculum changes relating to Protected Characteristics within the Relationships Education curriculum and to begin a conversation with parents ahead of implementation planned for September 2026. Yesterday we published a blog after several ethnic Gypsy and Traveller parents contacted Proud Gypsy Traveller…
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When Rules Are Only Meant To Tame Us: Power In The Pen
We’re used to hearing it. “You break the rules.”“You don’t follow the system.”“Why can’t you just do things properly?” Those comments get thrown at Gypsy & Traveller families all the time, as if exclusion is a personal failing rather than a political design. As if the rules themselves are neutral, fair, and applied equally. They…
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We are coming back to Doncaster
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 with discriminatory outcomes and goals! After much debate, we are in the process of setting…
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Open Letter to anyone who will help affect change
I remember my first day back at school all too well, we were living roadside, it was the norm for my family back then. We had gone away for a few months and were back for the winter, the memory was scorched on my brain so much that when I was in my early 20’s…