We have been awarded a grant from the Equality and Human Rights Commission for a short-term project ‘Access to Justice’. Friends, Families & Travellers is working with Citizens Advice Bureau at Chiltern in Buckinghamshire and Ash […]
Betsy Mobey joined Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) in June 2017 as an Intern. During her time at FFT, Betsy has been an enthusiastic member of the youth work team, learnt about tackling discrimination at two
Win Two Thorpe Park Annual Passes, a Mac Make Up Lesson or a pair of Adidas Boxing Gloves. We want to hear young Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people’s opinions on what they would do if they
On Saturday 16th of December, young people from St Michael’s Way Traveller site in Horsdean, East Sussex raised over £300 for Brighton Community Night Shelter by carol singing at Churchill Square. The young people dressed up
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As part of an ongoing campaign around social care, outreach staff and caseworkers from FFT have created a guide for advocates who are supporting Gypsy and Traveller families experiencing Children’s Services intervention. The guide contains an
Today, Tuesday 12th December, the Advice and Policy team at Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) released a report which shows that government is failing to address a chronic shortage of Gypsy and Traveller sites nationally. In
Yesterday morning, there was a debate in Westminster Hall entitled ‘Illegal Gypsy and Traveller Encampments: Bedfordshire’. This debate comes after two other recent debates on this topic, on the 9th October ‘Gypsies and Travellers and Local Communities’
Want to prevent “unauthorised encampments”? Provide enough pitches! Read More »
I heard Monday’s parliamentary debate on Gypsies and Travellers with dismay but not surprise. A few MPs grasped the wider issues intelligently but most used six hours of parliamentary time to moan about the 1% of
On 10th October 2017, the government launched its Race Disparity Audit website entitled ‘Ethnicity Facts and Figures’. The aim of the Race Disparity Audit is to find information about the different experiences of people from a
