Breaking: New research highlights the barriers for Gypsies, Roma, and Traveller pupils in secondary and further education.
On Wednesday, the 24th of February, the Traveller Movement will launch new research into the issues and barriers facing Gypsies, Roma, and Traveller pupils in secondary school and in Further Education...
Read MoreTraveller Movement awarded grant by Youth Futures Foundation
The Traveller Movement is delighted to announce it has been awarded a grant by the Youth Futures Foundation. The £70,304.00 award will support the organisation in its work with Gypsy, Roma and Travell...
Read More#StandUpAndBeCounted – a new campaign from the Traveller Movement
The Traveller Movement has launched a new campaign called #StandUpAndBeCounted to ensure that Gypsies, Roma and Travellers complete the census on the 21st of March and tick the box for their ethnicity...
Read MoreThe Traveller Movement is providing free politics training in 2021. Find out more below!
Over the next few months the Traveller Movement will deliver a politics and media training programme aimed at Gypsies, Roma and Irish Travellers (GRT), their supporters and allies. The aim of the p...
Read More#WheresOFCOM? Traveller group and campaigners urge action over “toxic” Channel 4 Dispatches show following months of delay
Press Release Immediate release Date: 26th of November Channel 4 Dispatches’ “The Truth About Traveller Crime” programme that aired 16th April 2020 has since been widely condemned as racist -...
Read MoreTraveller Movement annual conference 2020 – GRT campaigners say it’s time to Stop Traveller Hate
The Traveller Movement held its first ever digital conference on the 12th of November. Entitled Our Truth. Our Voice, the conference aimed to address and call out the toxic anti-Traveller narrative th...
Read MorePress release - Traveller Movement conference to address racism and discrimination against Gypsies and Travellers
For immediate release Date: 11th November 2020 National conference to address racism and discrimination against Gypsies and Travellers ‘Our Truth. Our Voice’ conference to turn tide on damagin...
Read MoreGypsy, Roma and Traveller stakeholders and supporters write to Gavin Williamson MP
Members of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller stakeholder group at the Department for Education have written to the Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson MP to raise their concerns regarding the rise in nu...
Read MoreTraveller Movement and leading activists call for apology from Home Secretary over anti-Traveller comments
The Traveller Movement has written an open letter to the Home Secretary, Priti Patel asking that she apologise for comments made during an event where she referred to Travellers as criminal and violen...
Read MoreSenator Eileen Flynn to deliver key note address at Traveller Movement conference
The Traveller Movement is very happy to announce that Senator Eileen Flynn, the first Irish Traveller ever to be elected to the Irish Seanad (senate) will deliver the key note address at our annual ...
Read MoreOur Truth. Our Voice. Traveller Movement Annual Conference is going online - 12th November 2020
This year we're doing things a little differently!It's so important that despite the challenging circumstances everyone has found themselves in that our annual conference continues to provide a platfo...
Read MoreOpen letter to Priti Patel - Travellers deserve an apology.
The Traveller Movement and others have written an open letter to the Home Secretary following her recent comments during an online event by the Board Of Deputies for British Jews. Signed by leading ac...
Read MoreThe Traveller Movement's annual conference is going online in 2020
For Immediate release Date: 21st of September 2020 Tickets now on sale for our first ever virtual conference! The Traveller Movement is very happy to announce that our annual national c...
Read MoreTraveller Movement writes to Education Select Committee in relation to catch-up funding
Robert Halfon MP Chair, Education Select Committee House of Commons London SW1A 0AA 12th of August 2020 CC: Equality and Human Rights Commission Re: Catch-up funding for Gypsy, Roma and Irish ...
Read MoreJune is Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month - lets applaud politicians who lead by example
Date: 05 June 2020 It's June and the start of another Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month. On Monday in a heartening display of solidarity, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan tweeted his support f...
Read MoreCoronavirus in prisons: Traveller Movement supports proposed legal action by The Howard League and the Prison Reform Trust
Last Friday, our colleagues at The Howard League for Penal Reform and the Prison Reform Trust took an unprecedented step and sent a formal letter before claim to the Secretary of State for Justice, Ro...
Read MoreWho's telling the truth? Traveller Movement’s response to Channel 4’s ‘Dispatches: The Truth about Traveller Crime’
Press Release Date: 17th April 2020 On Thursday the 16th April we watched in utter dismay Channel 4’s ‘Dispatches: The Truth about Traveller Crime’. The programme was highly critical of Gypsy and...
Read MoreThe Traveller Movement welcomes expansion to the early release scheme
Following our statement last week welcoming the planned temporary early release of low risk pregnant women and women in Mother and Baby Units, on Saturday the MoJ announced an expansion to the...
Read MoreOpen letter to the Department for Education: Don’t further marginalise Gypsy and Irish Traveller school pupils
The Traveller Movement, ACERT and others have written to Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson asking that Gypsy, Roma and Irish Traveller school pupils receive targeted support during the Covid-19 p...
Read MoreTraveller Movement welcomes announcement pregnant women to be temporarily released from prison
The Traveller Movement welcomes yesterday’s announcement, by the Justice Secretary, to temporarily release from prison low risk pregnant women and mother’s in Mother and Baby Units. The MoJ has state...
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