This section is designed to offer resources that have often gone out of print or are hard to obtain. It is also hoped that the material will highlight a small piece of the excellent projects and organisations working with Gypsy and Traveller children around the country. Copyright remains with the report's authors.

Beat the Bullies Magazine (PDF)
Young Gypsies and Travellers from Market Harborough, Leicestershire have been putting together a magazine which looks at marriage, attitudes to school and (above) bullying. “We love to meet new people and tell them our stories – I know if you met us you would like us,” says one of the contributors, sixteen-year-old Linda. Read their magazine here.


Moving Voices: Young Travellers Speak Out (pdf)
Transcript of Video - Nov. 1999, Save the Children Scotland


Having Our Say (pdf)
A Peer research project with Young Gypsy Travellers in Scotland, Save the Children Scotland. The research findings in this report are alarming and disturbing:

• Discrimination – 84% of the young Gypsy/Travellers interviewed reported the situation was the same or worse than in 2001.
• Accommodation – 77% of the young people felt their living conditions, whether on sites, camps or houses, had remained the same or got worse.
• School – 71% reported conditions at school were either the same or worse.
• Health – 84% said getting access to a doctor or dentist had remained the same or worse.


My Dream site (pdf) (big file - please download with patience)
Research with Traveller children around the issues of sites by the Children's Society's Participation Project


All About Us (pdf)
(very very big file as this is a beautiful, colourful booklet, please be patient)
Views of Traveller children in Birmingham on what they like and what would make life better. Save the Children Birmingham.


My Home, a series of story books
My Home story books are now available to download for free, on the FFT website, produced by Educational Advice for Travellers (E.A.T).

My Home: I Live in a Trailer: PDF version to print. View on-line

My Home: I live in a Showman's Wagon: PDF Version to print. View on-line.

My Home: I live in a Tipi: PDF Version to print. View on-line.

My Home: I live in a Truck: PDF Version to print. View On-line.


Go to our media page to download newspaper articles
on Gypsy Traveller Young People

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Downloadable Resources on External Websites

Working Towards Inclusive Practice date published: 03/07/2006 This resource is intended as a practical toolkit for all those involved in early years settings, whether or not they are currently working with Gypsy/Roma and Traveller children. It aims to: * Examine existing prejudice towards the Gypsy/Roma and Traveller community * Promote a better understanding of Gypsy/Roma and Traveller lifestyles and cultures * Increase awareness of racial discrimination and how multi-cultural resources can be used to challenge it More specifically, the pack aims to: * Provide information on the legislative background requiring early years settings to be inclusive of Gypsy/Roma and Traveller culture * Increase understanding of some of the barriers Gypsy/Roma and Travellers can face when accessing early years services * Provide play and learning activities that are inclusive of Gypsy/Roma and Traveller culture Working towards inclusive practice download Working towards inclusive practice

Young Brits at Art is a national art competition organised by the Commission for Racial Equality as part of its 30th anniversary celebrations in 2006.

Young Brits at Art invites students aged 11-16 from schools in England, Scotland and Wales to create art about how they see themselves in Britain today. Prize-winning pictures and selected entries will be displayed in an exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall from 17 October - 7 November 2006.

2 Young Gypsy Travellers were selected to be in the top 100.

Nellie Delaney aged 14 submitted a painting called 'Family Life'

Eileen Toohey aged 14 submitted a painting called 'My Caravan with the Liver Buildings'.

Passing Places Exhibition resources material

Passing Places started as an exhibition and series of events. The exhibition is now touring the UK. The focus is on Gypsy-Traveller history, culture, lifestyles and traditions.

The project was developed in 2003 by Hertford Museum and the Hertfordshire Traveller Education Service, with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

This website, developed from the exhibition, offers resources about Gypsy-Traveller culture and lifestyles.

The lesson plans are aimed at Key Stage 2 Literacy and Key Stage 3 Citizenship, but the material could be adapted for use in any curriculum area. http://www.passingplaces.org.uk/exhibition.htm

Do not miss the amazing 360 degree tour of the showman's trailer: http://www.passingplaces.org.uk/wagon.htm

The Roma Education Resource Book
Useful research from eastern Europe that affirms that Roma parents,
children and communities need to be involved in planning projects if they
are to succeed. Much of this research is collected in which is available free on the Internet at
http://www.osi.hu/iep/minorities/ResBook1/ResBookAll.htm


"A Summary of the Law relating to Home Education in England and Wales"
Produced by Education Otherwise. which is available on their site in printable form.
Click Here to access the guide.
Click Here to access the guide for Scotland


Travellers Times.
Download Travellers Times at their website http://travellerstimes.org.uk/
Send your news and views to editor, Bill Laws, at Travellers' Times: BillL@ruralmedia.co.uk


Travellers Remember
A series of digital stories featuring the reminiscences of Traveller families and their lives in the 1960s and 1970s can be found on the Traveller Times website. Journalist Jake Bowers launched the site: "We're a big part of English history, but we have been written out of the history books. Privately we all know where we came from. But if we are to have a public future, we need to be exploring these personal histories in projects such as Travellers Remembered".
Also available on DVD for £10 (or £15 for 2) from Traveller Times, The Rural Media Company, Sullivan House, 72-80 Widemarsh Street, Hereford, HR4 9HG


Rokker Radio
BBC Three Counties Radio, the local radio station for Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire broadcasts a weekly programme produced by and for the travelling community. Rokker Radio, is presented by Jake Bowers every Sunday. Jake is one of Britain's only Romany journalists and is a regular contributor to the Guardian and BBC Radio and Television.

The show focuses on the issues affecting the whole of the travelling community and provide an opportunity for them to talk about issues that are rarely aired outside the travelling community. The station hopes that by reporting their stories in a balanced way some of the myths about Gypsies and Travellers will be dispelled.

Travellers outside the BBC Three Counties Radio FM signal area can also listen to the show on a Medium Wave frequency in the South and Midlands and via the internet. www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties


Scottish Resources:
A huge range of Scottish educational reports on the STEP (Scottish Traveller Education Programme) website
http://www.scottishtravellered.net/resources/articles.html


BBC Radio 2: Swings and Roundabouts
The fourth in the series of 2006 Radio Ballads, Swings and Roundabouts paints a musical and anecdotal portrait of the people who travel the country building and re-building their rides, always looking to attract customers to their machines.

The website includes a gallery, vidoes, songs and interviews: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/radioballads/2006/fairgrounds/index.shtml


Kent Traveller Resources for the Literacy Hour
Peta Ruddock has compiled a large index of resources which may be used by teachers wishing to incorporate aspects of Traveller culture into the Literacy Hour. Texts are grouped by genre, using categories from the Literacy Framework. There are also suggestions for using the texts. Some are available for downloading and immediate use. Wherever possible, Peta has obtained copyright holders' permission for use only within school. All texts for download are in Word 6.0/95.
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/literacy/traveller


Traveller Related Literacy Hour Plans
These plans were produced by Hertfordshire Traveller Education Project to introduce schools to texts that have a positive reference to Travellers. Travellers include Gypsies, Irish Travellers, Fairground and Circus people. It offers suggestions as to how these texts can be used in the Literacy Hour literacy_hour.pdf

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Free Reports/Resources

For Government/Local authority reports, goto our
Government Policies page.

Learning is fun (2005)

Early Education for Traveller Children

Produced by the Liverpool Traveller Education Services to inform parents and carers from the Traveller Comunity about the learning opportunities availbale ofr their children within Early Years setting and encourage them to access the provision.

To obtain a copy, please email John Cole, Liverpool Traveller Education Service

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Supporting the Travelling Tradition: A report on the work of EFECOT in exploring the use of distance learning environments for children
Ken Marks

Abstract. The European Federation for the Education of the Children of Occupational Travellers (EFECOT) has been exploring the use of interactive courseware within a telematics framework, in order to strengthen supported distance learning for the large numbers of European Fairground, Circus and Bargee children who travel with their families and whose schooling experience is severely disrupted. This paper is a first attempt to collate and describe developments from four separate transnational projects. It draws from both internal, and publicly available, project documentation to explore evolving learning environments and emergent issues. In particular, there is a discussion of the parental role in home-based, mediated, settings, and an argument that an increased understanding of the potential of this role is central to effective user needs analysis and environmental design.

http://ui4all.ics.forth.gr/i3SD2000/Marks.PDF

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Room to Roam: England’s Irish Travellers by Action Group for Irish Youth, 2005

Irish Travellers are an indigenous minority in Ireland, north and south, who have a long history both of emigration to Britain, and of moving between Britain and Ireland. The research project Room to Roam: England’s Irish Travellers, undertaken over a period of three years, investigated the condition of the Irish Traveller community in England. It was designed to develop new information and research about the experiences of Irish Travellers in England in their relationships with health, welfare, criminal justice and educational agencies. It builds on the small body of research available which has already indicated the social exclusion of Irish Travellers from British society.

Many of the issues and problems facing Irish Travellers in Britain resonate with the experiences of Gypsies. However, it is important to recognise that Irish Travellers are a distinct ethnic group with their own history, culture and social mores.

The principle findings from the research included:

1. There is a general lack of recognition of the specificity of the position, culture and experiences of Irish Travellers. This lack of recognition inhibits the ability of statutory and non-statutory agencies to develop appropriate support and outreach for Irish Travellers.

2. The high levels of prejudice and discrimination experienced by Irish Travellers has led, in some instances, to strategies of avoidance of disclosure and/or discussion of ethnic and cultural backgrounds by Irish Travellers.

3. Accommodation is the single most pressing issue facing Travellers. The lack of appropriate accommodation strategies for Irish Travellers has marginalised and criminalised them.

4. Many Irish Travellers live in insecure and unhealthy conditions. The health consequences of the stresses of frequent moves, lack of appropriate halting sites have not been appropriately measured or monitored, but there is evidence, including from this research, to suggest that health of Irish Travellers, adult and children has suffered as a consequence.

5. Irish Travellers in the school system are often negatively stereotyped as inattentive and slow learners, that they experience racist bullying because of their ethnic background and are often blamed when they retaliate.

6. Evidence, including from police officers themselves, of police officers actively using racist attitudes towards Irish Travellers to inform policing decisions. This includes police forces ordinarily treating familial gatherings and events such as funerals and weddings as public order threats rather than a response to actual events or incidents.

Copies of the full report and the Summary of Research and Selected Recommendations are available free of charge from:

Action Group for Irish Youth
356 Holloway Road
London N7 6PATelephone: 0207 700 8137
Email: agiy2@aol.com
Web Page: agiy@irish.org.uk

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Denied a Future? The Right to Education of Roma, Gypsy and Traveller Children in Europe, The campaign by Save the Children, 2001 This report covers Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (including Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia), Romania. The Report states that in general, attendance rates of Roma/Gypsy children in schools are low, and they rarely attend beyond primary school. The social status of Roma/Gypsies is equally low, and cultural and physical isolation has been compounded over the last decade by increasing impoverishment, economic marginalisation and conflict. Relations with wider society, at best, have not improved within a climate of strengthening “majority”’ national identities. http://www.see-educoop.net/education_in/pdf/denied_future_2_01-oth-enl-t02.pdf

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Reports/Resources/Books to purchase:

For more books, goto the books page

Prejudice and Pride (by Jake Bowers)
Ormiston Children and Families Trust report and DVD looks at the issues and opinions of Young Traveller children in Cambridge about the issues that concern and affect them.
The report provided some interesting insights into how young Gypsies and Travellers viewed school and what they experienced whilst at school. Among many other findings, the report revealed that:
* Only 52% of those interviewed said they went to school
* 60% said that they felt that their culture was insufficiently valued and defended by schools
* 36% had been bullied in school

But perhaps the most dramatic responses came on the issue of racial hatred and bullying. When asked the question: Have you ever experienced racism or prejudice because you were a Traveller? 68% said yes and 32% said no. Many said this had been within the school system though others reported being physically assaulted, having caravans stoned and being spat on in public.

ISBN 0-9542553-4-8
A4 28 pages (2004) £4.00 (inc p&p)
DVD (featuring the thoughts & experience of young people from Travelling communities): £12.00 (inc p&p)
Book and DVD set: £14.00 (inc p&p) They can be ordered from sherry.peck@ormiston.org or gemma.friend@ormiston.org,
Order Form: http://www.ormiston.org/opus54.html

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Travellers Listen to Travellers
Sian Peer
This is an account of a drugs information project aimed at young people, developed by and for Travelling communities within Cambridgeshire. Funded by the Home Office Drugs Strategy Directorate it details the development of the initiative from consultation to the production of resource material.

ISBN 0-9542553-3-X
A4 32 pages (2004) £5.00 (inc p&p)
Order Form: http://www.ormiston.org/opus54.html

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Travellers' Voices
edited by Jake Bowers
In 2003 Ormiston Children and Families Trust hosted a conference called Travellers' Voices, which brought together members of Travelling communities and service providers. This report gives an account of the event which explored best practice and creative approaches to service provision. It provides an important insight for anyone working with Travelling communities, discussing issues relating to health and well-being, accommodation, racism and the needs of children and young people.

ISBN 0-9542553-1-3 £4.00 (inc p&p)
A4 20 pages (2003)
Order Form: http://www.ormiston.org/opus54.html

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Travellers' Voices: A Year On
This is an account of the conference held a year later which gives an insight into the progress in service delivery and the issues which continue to affect the lives of Travelling communities.

This publication is issued free of charge when ordered with Travellers Voices as above or £1.00 per copy.
A4 20 pages (2005)
Order Form: http://www.ormiston.org/opus54.html

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"Traveller Boys, Strategies for Success in School."

The Milton Keynes Traveller Education Services have produced a 4 -sided colour pamphlet called "Traveller Boys, Strategies for Success in School." Produced for .... "the purpose of helping schools better understand specific issues facing Traveller boys attending school. We hope that through improved understanding , new ideas and approaches may be adopted in order to help Traveller boys adjust to school life and achieve their full potential".

The contact on the pamphlet for information or for copies (at £2.50 each) is
samantha.brewer@milton-keynes.gov.uk

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Childrens Voices: changing futures

The report of the eighteen month study presenting a unique insight into the needs and experiences of children and young people from Travelling communities is available priced £20. Future events will include training and learning seminars undertaken in partnership with young people from Travelling communities are planned for the future.

ISBN 0-9542553-9-9
A4 146 pages (2006) £22.00 (inc p&p)

If you want any further information contact sherry.peck@ormiston.org
Order Form: http://www.ormiston.org/opus54.html

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Having Our Say
A peer research project with young Gypsy/Travellers in Scotland 2005

Having our Say presents the shocking results from a highly innovative peer research project carried out by young Gypsy/Travellers across Scotland. Thirteen young Gypsy/Traveller researchers interviewed 109 of their peers – a group whose voices are virtually never heard – about their experiences regarding accommodation, health, learning and discrimination. Gypsy/Travellers remain one of the most marginalised and socially excluded groups in Scottish society, and the report found:

• Discrimination - 92% said they had been picked on because they were Gypsy/Travellers
• Accommodation - 77% said their living conditions had remained the same or got worse in recent years
• School – 71% reported conditions at school had not improved
• Health – 84% said getting access to a doctor or dentist had remained the same or got worse

The research findings in this report are alarming and disturbing. Many young people mentioned only being able to gain access to health and education services if they denied or hid their ethnic identity. There were frequent examples of discrimination in public places, indicating that it is still socially acceptable to discriminate against Gypsy/Travellers in modern-day Scotland. This report highlights the pressing need for a targeted approach to tackle the racism and discrimination faced by young Gypsy/Travellers on a daily basis.

This report will be of interest to anyone who has an interest in, or works with, young people and minority ethnic communities - youth workers, policy makers, researchers, teachers, health workers, MSPs, civil servants, voluntary sector and local authority staff.

Please send your order to: Michelle Lloyd, Save the Children, 2nd Floor, Prospect House, 5 Thistle Street, Edinburgh, Email: m.lloyd@savethechildren.org.ukInternetLink "mailto:m.lloyd@savethechildren.org.uk"

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The Value of Play - a booklet published by the Cambridgeshire Traveller Initiative, Ormiston Children and Family Trust. Tel: 01223 426148, email: cambstravellers@ormiston.org

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Gypsy Travellers and Education: Changing Needs and Changing Perceptions
Kalwant Bhopal, University of Greenwich.
British Journal of Educational Studies vol 52 No.1 (March 2004) pp 47-64

This article explores Gypsy Travellers' changing views on their children's education. It is based on a project for the then Department for Education and Employment (DfEE), by the author and others, looking at best practice in relation to the schooling of Gypsy Traveller children. Research was conducted in six different schools, talking to parents from 20 different families.

Main findings
The report found that contrary to common assumptions, Gypsy Traveller parents are not generally hostile to the education of their children. Many see a need for them to get an education, seeing it as a 'stepping stone' to enable them to be respected in society, particularly in a world where traditional Gypsy means of making a living are less viable. Many wanted their children to complete secondary and even higher education. But whereas attitudes to education itself are positive, many parents have negative attitudes to schools; partly due to the fact that many parents have never been to school themselves. There is a fear of dilution of Gypsy values and the exposure of children to the 'immoralities' of non-Gypsy society, as well as a (often not unfounded) fear that children will experience racism and social exclusion at school. A few parents see the wider curriculum as irrelevant to their children, even if they see basic skills as important. A more general problem highlighted by the study is that school curricula are not tailored to a nomadic way of life, which can make it very difficult for children who move around a lot to do well.

To purchase the article for $36.60 (yes Dollars!), visit www.ingentaconnect.com

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Gypsy Traveller Students in Secondary Schools: Culture, Identity and Achievement, by: Chris Derrington and Sally Kendall, published by Trentham Books

The project tracked 44 Traveller children from the age of 11 to 16 and found that only three (7 per cent) achieved five or more A*-C GCSEs this summer (the national average was 61 per cent). In total, 10 of the 44 gained five or more A*-G GCSEs (23 per cent, compared with a national average of 98 per cent).

However, the overall achievement rates for the teenagers are almost certainly worse than even these disappointing figures because most of the young people tracked by the study team were living either on official sites or in houses and had good primary-school attendance records.

The researchers, who presented their findings at the European Conference on Educational Research, said only 13 of the 44 had completed key stage 4. The other 31 youngsters had dropped out for a range of reasons.

More than half the parents expected their children to fulfil traditional, gender-based roles in adult life. These parents assumed their sons and daughters would leave school by the age of 14. One girl, who was still 12 at the time, told the researchers: "Next year, I'll be at home learning how to clean up... helping my mum. We don't really get jobs. We usually stay at home until we're 18 or 19 and then get married and be a housewife."

(TES, 16 September 2005)

A copy of the report: Gypsy Traveller Students in Secondary Schools: Culture, Identity and Achievement, by: Chris Derrington and Sally Kendall, published by Trentham Books, ISBN 1 85856 320 8, £17.99 Contact: 01782 745 567 or visiting the website:http://www.trentham-books.co.uk/ or Amazon.co.uk Links: To read a longer summary of the report, visit www.nfer.ac.uk

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Educating Gypsy and Traveller pupils

This 16-page pamphlet highlights the key issues associated with the education of children and young people from the Gypsy and Traveller communities - a group described by Ofsted as "the children most at risk in the education system. They are too often 'out of sight and out of mind' ". It describes the different groups making up the Traveller community, the prejudice and discrimination from which they suffer, their view of school education, what schools and local authorities can do and the work of Traveller Education Services. £5 (discounts for bulk orders) Click here to download order form

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Traveller Education: changing times, changing technologies, by: Ken Marks
Price £10.99 , September 2004



This report is the outcome of the Linksing and Mobility project (E-LAMP) which was sponsored by the Nuffield Foundation and coordinated by the National association of the Teachers of Travellers. Many Circus, Fairground and Gypsy children miss out on schooling opportunities during their travelling seasons. E-LAMP set out to explore the potential of developments in ICT to enhance distance learning provision for these children.

The study looked at the role of LEA-based Traveller Education Support Services and schools in supporting these children as well as examining Linksing developments for other children in out-of-school situations, such as children with medical needs and excluded pupils. This exercise suggested growth points for future development but also highlighted important practical and policy issues which will need to be addressed if progress is to be made, particularly within the secondary sector.

The report contains suggestions and recommendations from the E-Lamp steering group and also includes an interim evaluation of an important new project, E-LAMP2, and a parallel project in Leicestershire. Both projects are exploring the use of laptops with data cards which can link young Traveller learners to the internet and to their schools.

The author Ken Marks is a research Associate within the 'Inclusive Education and Equality Research Centre' which is part of the structure of the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Sheffield. He has been working with the department for the past eight years and has a particular interest in the use of new technologies to support Traveller children. Most of his work has had a European focus, supporting initiatives developed by the European Federation for the Education of the Children of Occupational Travellers (EFECOT) until 2003 when its operational role ceased.

Purchase this report from http://www.trentham-books.co.uk/ or Amazon.co.uk

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Traveller Education: accounts of good practice, edited by: Chris Tyler, Price £16.99, February 2005

This is a handbook for all schools that have Traveller pupils. It moves beyond the issues surrounding their low educational attainment and attendance in schools to outline good practice, based on proven success in schools.

Chapters deal with principles of inclusion, meeting the needs of Traveller pupils, tackling access and attendance, supporting mobile pupils. The sectors are each considered: opportunities for early years education, resources at foundation and key stage 1, Literacy for All and other curriculum partnerships at key stage 2, good cross phase practice, overcoming the barriers to secondary students effectively. Other chapters are devoted to housed Travellers and supporting distance learning.

The contributors are Arthur Ivatts; Brian Foster and Hilary Horton; Lucy Beckett; Claire Norris, Carol Ward and Sue Itzinger; Anne Jefford and Kate Stockdale; Kanta Wild-Smith; Lorna Daymond; Margaret Wood; Sue Green and Louise Stokoe; Barbara Blaney; Jim Donovan; Ken Marks; the Bucks METAS. Their professionalism and successful approaches are models for practitioners wanting to enhance the educational attainment of what is still the lowest achieving group in schools. The collection will be invaluable to everyone involved in the education of Traveller children, providers, trainers and workers in related fields.

Purchase this book from http://www.trentham-books.co.uk/ or Amazon.co.uk

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CD Roms / DVDs/ Multimedia resources

 

Be Roma or Die Tryin’ DVD

[Note from CyberPilots webmaster - this is one of the funniest, slick and informative DVDs available now - I was so impressed at the viewing]

The short documentary is co-produced by the Roma Support Group and Hi8us South and has been created by young Polish Roma refugees from East London. It is a journey through their heritage and across their city, examining Britain’s ignorance of Roma culture while celebrating the new life they have made for themselves.

The film is funded by the Changemakers Foundation’s ‘Y SPEAK’
Consultation Fund and the European Social Fund and is aimed at both school students and professionals working with the Roma community.

The Co-ordinator of the Roma Support Group, Sylwia Ingmire, said today “We have been overwhelmed by the positive response to this film and I’m thrilled that the DVD is now available to teachers, community groups and the general public. The film is entertaining and funny without trivialising the serious issues involved and, most importantly, it allows young Roma to speak for themselves.”

The DVD of the film, costing £13, is accompanied by a Class Discussion and Activity Pack reflecting UK Key Stage 3 National Curriculum components. It can be ordered through the film’s website: www.beromadvd.net.
For further information please email beromadvd@btinternet.com.

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The Speak Out project explores the issue of Racist Bullying of Travellers in school and gives advice on combatting it. The Speak Out project CD contains interviews with young Travellers, telling of their experiences of racist bullying. This CD can be obtained from; Margaret Wood Team for Traveller Education CPDC, Foster Road Trumpington, Cambridge, CB2 2NL 01223 508700 Email: margaret.wood@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

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Sticks and Stones Video

How do young Gypsy and Irish Traveller Children deal with racial abuse they encounter?

Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt you.....

From name calling, to physical abuse through violent and fatal attacks. This DVD documents the experiences of young Gypsy and Irish Traveller children.

Made by East Sussex Traveller Education Service in consortium with Brighton & Hove. Funded by Brighton & Hove Children's Trust.
Copies available from:
East Sussex Traveller Education Service,
PO BOX 4, County Hall, Lewes. BN7 1SG
£25

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Fairground Resource CD Rom,

Cambridgeshire Team for Traveller Education has just released an exciting new CDrom exploring Cambridge Midsummer Fair. It covers all aspects of the fair from its history, stretching back some 800 years, to today's manifestation as the largest fun fair in the East of England. Midsummer Fair retains strong links with both Showmen and Gypsy Traveller communities, this CDrom features contributions from the events organisation team, the police, Showmen's children, Gypsy Travellers and children visiting the fair. It has many applications across the primary and secondary curriculum.

T he CDrom has won an award from the East of England Broadband Consortium in 2005 under the category "Use of Digital Assets within the Classroom".

It costs £15 for a single user licence.
For more, and to order, goto: http://c9f.e2bn.net/e2bn/leas/c99/schools/c9f/web/public/webpages/html/midsummer_fair.html

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A Gypsy's Wish
Kelly is a sixteen year old Gypsy who dreams of one day becoming a singer. She soon learns that adversity clouds the path forward and she must learn to overcome the racial and cultural sterotypes placed upon her and her music.

The film is written, produced and directed by members of the Gypsy Community, most of whom had no experience in video producing prior to making the film.

A short extract from the film can be viewed by clicking on the relevant link below (on the Mulitverse website. Windows Media Player - works with v7 or above of this Microsoft application. Real Player - works with v8 or above.

For the script, how it was made, actors and more, visit the Gypsy Wish website: http://www.gypsys-wish.co.uk/index.html

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Travellers Remember
A series of digital stories featuring the reminiscences of Traveller families and their lives in the 1960s and 1970s can be found on the Traveller Times website. Journalist Jake Bowers launched the site: "We're a big part of English history, but we have been written out of the history books. Privately we all know where we came from. But if we are to have a public future, we need to be exploring these personal histories in projects such as Travellers Remembered".
Also available on DVD for £10 (or £15 for 2) from Traveller Times, The Rural Media Company, Sullivan House, 72-80 Widemarsh Street, Hereford, HR4 9HG

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Judge Yourself not Others
This short video was produced by a group of young Gypsy/Travellers from across Scotland. Our aim was to produce 3 short anti-racist adverts, along the lines of those used during the 'One Scotland, Many Cultures' campaign.

In Feburary 2003 we all got together at Nethy Bridge near Aviemore and over the course of a weekend we learnt about operating cameras, sound equipment, direction, editing, filming techniques and so on. We also tried Ski-ing and snow-boarding (on real snow) and it was great fun! In March we met in Perth for a day to edit the final product. See the Projects page for photos of us making the video

Michelle Lloyd
Save the Children
2/F Prospect House,
5 Thistle Street, Edinburgh EH2 1DF
Tel: 0131 527 8200

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Just Like You
Save the Children Video, 1998.

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Pavee Lackeen

Perry Ogden documented the experience of the young poor in Dublin with his photo book 'Pony Kids'. His first feature moves on from those representations, offering an intimate portrait of the traveller community. It focuses on 10-year-old Winnie, who lives with her mother and siblings in a trailer on the side of the road in a desolate part of Dublin . She is at odds with her environment as she wanders the streets of the prosperous, modern city, while her family endure visits from the council, social workers and sympathetic activist groups, struggling with bureaucracy, prejudice and poverty. With a cast of mostly non-professional actors drawn from the traveling community, Ogden conveys a sense of people being, rather than performing, and Winnie Maughan's illuminating presence provides the film with its beating heart. Filmed through a photographer's eye and with a documentary feel, Pavee Lackeen avoids patronizing stereotypes, sentimentality and dourness to emerge as one of the most distinctive debuts to come out of Ireland in years.

Dir Perry Ogden/Scr Perry Ogden, Mark Venner/with Winnie Maughan, Paddy Maughan, Rosie Maughan/Ireland 2005/87mins/35mm/Certificate 15 /Courtesy of Verve Pictures.

Buy it now from Amazon.co.uk for only £14.99

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Gypsy and Traveller Picture Library - to promote race equality. An essential pack of photographs on 4 themed CDs:

· Vardos, Carts, Horses and Pets
· Circus and Fairground
· Appleby
· Homes

£20 including p&p
Contact:
EMTAS (Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Service, Durham)
Tel: 01740 656998
or email: freda.fielding@durham.gov.uk

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Johnny and his Horses Pack - £10.00
10 minute DVD Video. Plus printable worksheets and clipart as an included resource on the DVD. The programme shows traveller boy Johnny riding and looking after his horses.
Coming soon - August 2005

Stowe Fair Pack - £10.00
10 minute DVD Video. Plus printable worksheets and clipart as an included resource on the DVD. The programme shows a day at Stowe Gypsy Fair. Coming soon - August 2005

Find Hotchiwitchi CDROM - £10.00
A simple but fun interactive CDROM for PC only. Under 5s will love trying to find Hotchiwitchi and at the same time learning all about travellers lives. Includes printable worksheets and clipart. Coming soon - August 2005

for more information email wildcall - info@wildcall.co.uk

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Prejudice and Pride (by Jake Bowers)
Ormiston Children and Families Trust report and DVD looks at the issues and opinions of Young Traveller children in Cambridge about the issues that concern and affect them
ISBN 0-9542553-4-8

DVD (featuring the thoughts & experience of young people from Travelling communities): £12.00 (inc p&p)
Book and DVD set: £14.00 (inc p&p)
They can be ordered from sherry.peck@ormiston.org or gemma.friend@ormiston.org, Order Form: http://www.ormiston.org/opus54.html

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Historical Resources / Links

The Living Album - Hampshire's Gypsy Heritage

This project aims to help members of Hampshire's wider Gypsy and Traveller community to discover and access relevant museum and archive collections in a creative as well as an informative way.

It will also help to raise the profile of Gypsy culture within schools, especially those who have Gypsy children in attendance. Furthermore, the development of a 'Living Album' website relating to the history and contemporary culture of Gypsy children and their families, to which they will contribute directly, will open up the history of Gypsy culture and lifestyle in Hampshire to a worldwide audience.
http://www.hants.gov.uk/rh/gypsy/

Great information on historical Gypsy Wagons: http://sca.lib.liv.ac.uk/collections/gypsy/wagons.htm


Romany Roots
www.bbc.co.uk/kent/romany_roots
The Historical section has sections on "Horse Drawn Days", Hop-Picking, Settling Down and more. The Gallery has amazing old photos of Gypsy Families and sites.


National Fairground Archive
The National Fairground archive is located at Sheffield University and provides a primary resource for research and an exciting source of teaching materials.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/nfa/


Gypsy Holocaust in the Observer:
http://www.observer.co.uk/asylum/story/0,1084,537952,00.html


New Traveller History:
Tash's Homepage (Festivals, Travelling and Environmental Articles and Excellent Photos) http://tash.gn.apc.org/INDEX.htm
and
George Dice's Homepage
Stonehenge campaign, Tribal voices, links and more http://www.dicegeorge.com/

Romani.org
A guide to the history and culture of the Roma or Gypsy people with good links to holocaust resources
http://www.romani.org


A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
As titled a teachers guide to the holocaust with some resources for teaching about the Gypsy Holocaust.
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/default.htm


Gordon Boswell's Romany Museum, Spalding ­
A good resource for those living near Lincolnshire
http://www.boswell-romany-museum.com


Famous Gyspies:
http://www.imninalu.net/famousGypsies.htm

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Photographical and musical Resources

Lee Winters
Romany Gypsy singer' songwriter' story teller ' poet'
http://gypsyleeboy.tripod.com/

Nigel Dickinson photographer
Gallery feature: Roma Gypsies - beyond borders
Images from "Roma across Europe". These photographs were taken over 12 years in Turkey, Greece, France, England, Spain, Italy, Bosnia, Romania, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Slovakia, Finland, Poland

Nigel Dickinson photographer
Saint Sara and the Gypsy festival at 'Saintes Maries de la Mer'
Twelve years documentary photographs on the famous Gypsy festival in the Camargue in southern France, which takes place every May; Nigel Dickinson's book 'Sara. le pelerinage des gitans'published by Actes Sud, Manitas de Plata - the celebrated Gypsy guitarist, aerial views over Saintes Maries, Gypsy camps, music & dance from the Gitan, Roma and Manouche, the Guardians, Camargaises and Arlesians
This subject contains 8 collections of photographs

Nigel Dickinson photographer
Roma Gypsies across Europe
8 million Roma Gypsies in Europe, many who live in poverty. Victims of institutionalized racism, denied rights as 'european citizens', ethnically cleansed, sterilized, forcibly settled, living on the margins, refugees from war and economic hardship. Recent exodus from kosovo and the balkans, from poorer eastern european countries to western cities. Preserving their identity and traditions. Fervent religious believers, who are Evangelist, Catholic, Muslim, Orthodox. The famous festival of Saintes Maries de la Mer. War, recycling, festivals, weddings, funerals, drugs, horse & wagon, poverty, musicians, circus, bears, horses. Reportages from France, Spain, England, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Finland, the Balkans, Serbia, Monetenegro, Kosovo, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey, Greece. Council of Europe. This subject contains 14 reportages.


Gypsy Art and Photographers in Hampshire
http://www.hants.gov.uk/rh/gypsy/resources/art.html



OUR SITES: Museum of Childhood, East London, 2005

OUR SITES was an outdoor exhibition of photographs shown at the V&A’s Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green. This exhibition was the culmination of On Site Arts’ Gypsy and Traveller photography projects on the three participating caravan sites.

http://www.onsitearts.org/texts/com3.html
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4637647.stm


BBC Radio Kent's Romany Roots:
The Historical section has sections on "Horse Drawn Days", Hop-Picking, Settling Down and more. The Gallery has amazing old photos of Gypsy Families and sites.


Historical Gypsy Photographical Collection
http://sca.lib.liv.ac.uk/collections/gypsy/photoind.htm

The Gypsy Collections include several thousand photographs - prints in their original albums, glass negatives and lantern slides - of Gypsies in various countries, with an emphasis on Britain and Ireland. Most of the photographs were taken by Gypsy Lore Society members Fred Shaw (d. 1940) and Ivor Evans (1886-1957) between 1900 and 1940.

Over 4000 of these photographs have been catalogued into a database, which is available for consultation in the Special Collections & Archives Reading Room at the University of Liverpool.

On-line gallery provides a representative selection of photographs from the Collections. Most of these images have been used to illustrate the Collections' webpages, but a number of additional images have been included.


The National Fairground Archive
http://hri.shef.ac.uk/fairground/index.html
The National Fairground Archive (NFA) is part of the University of Sheffield Library Special Collections. This online image database contains 1000 photographic images selected from the full database situated at the NFA at the University Library in Sheffield.


Tash's New Traveller Photos
"One Eye on the Road", Tash's photographs of Stonehenge, Glastonbury and the Conveys.
http://tash.gn.apc.org/photo_1.htm


Barrie Law's commercial site Romany Gypsy Photograph Collection
http://www.romanygypsy.com
A beautiful collection of modern photographs, including wagons and Appleby Fair


Derbyshire Gypsy Laison Group:
http://www.dglg.org/gallery/


Jo McGuire
http://www.jomcguirephoto.com/rom2.htm
Best known for her acclaimed collection on British Gypsies & Irish Travellers,A Romany Way of Life through the eyes of a Romany children is a Community Arts Education with the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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