Useful Links
For further information and reading
The list below contains useful websites and documents pertinent to the work of NATT+ members.
If you are aware of any significant omissions to this list or know of a site that NATT+ members will find interesting or useful please let us know.
NATT+ is not responsible for the content of external websites.
Equality is a charity that works to uphold and secure the rights of ethnic minority groups in Britain and Europe. We primarily help Roma who migrated to the UK from the new EU Member States. Roma are regarded as the most vulnerable and deprived ethnic group within Europe. Equality empowers them to resolve employment, housing, education, healthcare and social welfare issues. We help by building dialogue, understanding and co-operation between Roma communities (or other ethnic minority groups), local authorities and service providers.
School Supported Distance Learning (pdf file)
Much of the guidance contained in this document is based on pilot experience stimulated by two e-learning and mobility initiatives, the E-LAMP projects, which took place during the period 2003-06, and which involved ten English Traveller Education Support Services (TESS) in different parts of the country.
National Strategies:
Attendance Advice Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Children (pdf file)
This advice gives information for parents and carers of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children and those who work with them in schools and local authorities.
Advisory Council for the Education of Romany and other Travellers
Amusement Catering Equipment Society
ACES - The Amusement Catering Equipment Society is a long established society, dealing with the welfare of its members and operation of members' equipment. Members include fairground operators, circus proprietors and performers, street entertainers and food caterers.
Association of Independent Showmen
An Organisation of Showmen who own, operate or have an interest in Fairground Equipment and Circuses.
Formed to support children’s education and to help break down the isolation experienced accessing schools.
Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group
Provides valuable assistance and information to the Gypsy community in and around Derbyshire.
Devon Traveller Education Service
Lots of information, downloads, background to projects, Devon TES newsletters.
Equality and Human Rights Commission
The new commission is working to eliminate discrimination, reduce inequality, protect human rights and to build good relations, ensuring that everyone has a fair chance to participate in society.
Campaigning site focusing on Human Rights issues.
Organisation of Travellers and settled people providing services to Travellers in the Dublin area.
European Commission’s Roma Website
Provide information on the EU’s activities in support of the Roma, Gypsy and Traveller community.
Friends, Families and Travellers
A site working for UK Travellers to have the right to travel and to stop without constant fear.
Gordon Boswell’s Romany Museum
A good resource for those near Lincolnshire.
The Gypsy Lore Society Collections
Collection of resources at the University of Liverpool including large collection of photographs and academic references.
An American site providing information about Gypsy and Traveller cultures.
Gypsy Roma Traveller Achievement Service
A website celebrating cultural diversity in Leeds.
Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month
Visit the site for news, activities and events.
The website of the Gypsy Council. Education, culture, welfare and civil rights.
Haringey Traveller Education Service
Traveller Education information is accessible via the Team Pages menu option.
Hertfordshire Traveller Education Project
An interesting and practical website.
Irish Traveller Movement in Britain
The Irish Travellers Movement seeks to raise the profile of Irish Travellers in Britain and increase their say in decision making processes and forums.
Kent Traveller Resources for the Literacy Hour
This is a collection of resources that include Traveller Cultural perspectives in the Literacy hour.
Kids’ Own are a not-for-profit arts organisation in the north-west of Ireland that (among other things) publish books that celebrate and explore cultural diversity. We work with many nationalities, including settled and Travellers families.
Multiverse is an Initial Teacher Training Professional Resource Network (IPRN).
The National Fairground archive is located at Sheffield University and provides a primary resource for research and an exciting source of teaching materials.
Cushti playing cards - limited edititon Gypsy Traveller Heritage playing cards
An excellent site with lots of information about Romani history and culture. It also has an excellent links page.
Supporting Human Rights for Irish Travellers.
REST provides support to Roma families settling into British culture
The Roma Support Group is a Roma-led Registered Charity working with East European Roma refugees and migrants. Website includes resources, projects and training opprtunities
This site aims to present information from Romani academics and Romani organisations on Romani culture and Romani history. It includes a section with a good range of resources
This site provides information on the Romani language and on linguistic research on Romani. The site is operated by the Manchester Romani Project – a cluster of academic research activities based at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Manchester.
A subscription site for those wishing to receive Rom news bulletins.
A campaigning site publicising the abuse of the Roma.
A guide to the history and culture of the Roma or Gypsy people with good links to holocaust resources.
A oral history project undertaken by BBC Kent.
The Romany and Traveller Family History Society
This is a site for those wishing to trace their Traveller family history.
An award winning media education, development and production organisation with a national reputation for its powerful, socially aware media and communications work.
An early years specific site which includes the ‘toolkits’ previously listed as a link.
Scottish Traveller Education Programme
A wealth of information about Traveller Education in Scotland backed up by academic research. Also offers European perspectives on this area of work.
The principal object of the Showmen’s Guild is to protect the interest of its members – showmen who gain their livelihoods through funfairs.
The Society of Independent Roundabout Proprietors
The Society's members are professional and semi-professional showmen owning and operating principally pre-WWII fairground equipment, including steam powered, wood framed and hand-turned fairground rides. Also included are supporting attractions such as coconut shies, shooting galleries, hoopla stalls and vintage slot machine arcades (defined as pre-1971 machines)
Travellers Law Reform Coalition
Following the disbanding of the Gypsy and Traveller Law Reform Coalition in 2006, Friends Families and Travellers, The Gypsy Council, The Irish Traveller Movement and the London Gypsy and Traveller Unit set up this project to continue the valuable work.
Traveller Law Research Unit (TLRU)
This site provides a historical record of the now defunct Traveller Law Research Unit.
Travellers’ Times is the only national magazine for Britain’s 300,000 Gypsies, Roma and Travellers.
A Spanish organisation recognised by the UN which campaigns for recognition of the Romani people.
University of Hertfordshire Press
subsidiary-companies/uh-press. A publisher specialising in social, cultural and political aspects of Roma.
West Midlands Consortium Service for Travelling Children, Schools and Families
Information and links to regions in the consortium.
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