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Tag: Gypsy and Traveller Communities
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Found Again: A Film From Our First Proud Gypsy Traveller Exhibition
A recovered film from the first Proud Gypsy Traveller exhibition work is placed back into the community archive, with its 2017 file metadata and 2016 exhibition history preserved together.
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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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I’ve Found a Piece of Land — Can I Live on It? A Gypsy Woman’s Plain-English Guide to Planning Permission
There has been a lot of noise about the new planning rules. Depending on which newspaper or Facebook comment you read, apparently Gypsies and Travellers can now buy a field, pull on with a caravan and planning permission is almost guaranteed. I wish. Equally, I still hear Gypsy and Traveller families say: “It’s Green Belt.…
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No Monuments, No Anthem, No Book? Who Gets to Decide What Counts as Gypsy History?
I came across a quote that I haven’t been able to leave alone. its one of those that keeps swirling around in my head It is from Isabel Fonseca, whose Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey was published in the mid-1990s. She writes: “The Gypsies have no heroes. There are no myths of…
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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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Not Just a Strategy: The Courage to Make It Real
On 2 July 2026, I attended the launch of the Council of Europe Strategy for Roma and Traveller Inclusion 2026–2030, hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma at Portcullis House in Parliament. The event was chaired by Mary Foy MP, and brought together parliamentarians, Council of Europe representatives, civil society organisations,…
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Appleby Through the Eyes of a Travelling Family
For Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month, Proud Gypsy Traveller asked one of our directors to take his family to Appleby Horse Fair and share some feedback about their experience. We are very grateful to his wife for writing this honest and personal account of what Appleby means to their Family, what keeps them returning…
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The Last Acceptable Racism?
What Kemi Badenoch’s comments reveal about Britain’s treatment of Gypsy and Traveller communities Today, I listened to comments from Kemi Badenoch regarding Gypsy and Traveller communities and policing. I should have been shocked. Instead, I found myself feeling something closer to disappointment. Not because the comments were new. Sadly, they were not. They simply repeated…
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Not Just a Toolkit: Taking Gypsy & Traveller Experiences Into Different Rooms
A small crisis-planning commission gave us a chance to take Gypsy & Traveller experiences into different conversations about power, planning, identity and systems — and potentially build new allies.