Crystal’s Vardo We are touring Crystal’s Vardo in June as part of Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month. For more details on Crystal’s Vardo, please click here Friday 21st June 7pm - The Hackney Empire https://hackney.gov.uk/Assets/Documents/ Gypsy_Roma_Traveller_History_Month_leaflet.pdf Monday 24th June – Rose Theatre, Kingston 7.30pm http://www.rosetheatrekingston.org/white-label/crystal-vardo Wednesday 26th June – Camden Irish Centre 4.30 pm Sunday 30th July Surrey Rural Life Centre time to be [...]
Beautiful donated Vardo
Many thanks to Kev for making and donating this vardo to FFT. All monies raised ...
Amnesty take on the fight for Roma in Europe
Amnesty International’s briefing Human rights here. Roma rights now has now been published. It is a wake-up call for the European Union is a call to the EU to take decisive action and play a central role in ending the discrimination against Roma in Europe. Amnesty said, on the eve of International Roma Day marked on 8 April, that the [...]
Legal Aid
Lawyers say ‘Business as usual’ Many Travellers Times readers will have seen mention in the media of the bringing into force of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 on 1st April 2013. There has been a lot of concern over the detrimental effects of the cuts to legal aid and [...]
@BasildonCouncil: drop £4.3m eviction charges against Dale Farm families
In October 2011, Basildon Council undertook a brutal forced eviction that left 83 families homeless and living on the roadside. Now Tony Ball, leader of Basildon Council, has told the families that he made homeless that they must pay the £4.3 million costs of the eviction. Basildon Council knows that the families have no way of [...]
Please stop making even more laws to evict Gypsies and Travellers who have nowhere to go!
The Government is trying to make more and stronger powers to evict homeless Gypsies and Travellers even though there are plenty of powers already. The basic point is, that there is no point trying to double up on powers to evict, if there is nowhere for people to go because there are not enough sites. [...]
2011 Census Results: Gypsies & Travellers
Until 2012, there were no Gypsies and Travellers according to the UK National Census because they were not recognised by the Census, despite being part of British society for over 500 years. Now, for the first time, Gypsies and Travellers can volunteer their ethnicity, and we welcome that 57,680 have chosen to do so. Sadly, [...]
Friends, Families and Travellers
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Information Standard for health and social care information
FFT are proud to announce that in August 2011 we were awarded the Information Standard for health and social care information.
The Information Standard means that all health and social care information we produce for clients is put through rigorous procedures to ensure that it is accurate, impartial, up-to-date, evidence-based, well-written and accessible.
The Information Standard gives our health and social care information a seal of approval from the Royal Society for Public Health so clients know they can trust our written information and advice.
We hope to continue developing more easy-read information and advice leaflets to support and advise Gypsies and Travellers in all areas of health and social care.
