Services Directory

Advisory Service For Squatters is a collective of workers and volunteers who have been providing legal and practical advice for squatters and other homeless people since 1975. We also publish The Squatters Handbook - providing over a hundred pages of detailed legal and practical information about squatting and homelessness in England and Wales.

We assist Travellers to articulate their needs and to support them to ensure those needs are met through the adoption of a community development approach and promote the development of anti-racist policies and practice which give protection to Travellers. This includes health and social well-being, accommodation, education, welfare rights, capacity building, training and employment.

We believe that governments, professionals, and the wider community should all play a role in building an environment that respects, values and validates the contributions of young people. We support young Gypsy/Travellers to access learning and development opportunities that empower them to participate at all levels of society.

Astley Caravans have been selling new and used caravans in North West for over 40 years and been firmly established as the number one dealership when it comes to static caravans, boasting one of the largest showgrounds of new and used static caravans.

A Mobile Home / Caravan Rental Company.

We can assist you with advice on legal issues arising on planning applications and also help you successfully progress a planning application through the system. Where there are breaches of planning control we can help defend against enforcement action and we can advise on how to regularise breaches.

Cris McCurley, Partner at BHB Solicitors, has spent his entire career with BME/RGT clients who are experiencing domestic abuse, child abduction, interventions in families by social services, and has worked closely with NGOs who support these groups to provide a holistic service, support and culturally informed legal advice and services.

We are a highly successful law firm offering a range of specialist legal services. We have a reputation for excellence and for being at the cutting edge of legal developments - particularly in relation to issues around human rights, discrimination and public authorities' powers.

Birmingham Irish is the Midlands' leading charity providing welfare and cultural services to the Irish community. Services we provide include welfare advice, extensive information service, alcohol and substance misuse, family support (including service provision within the school setting), general information like passport and pensions advice as well as family ancestry tracing.

At Bishop & Sewell LLP we offer a range of services for the individual including, but not limited to: bankruptcy and personal insolvency, litigation and dispute resolution, trusts, tax and estates, family relationships and divorce international matters, employment advice immigration law and property matters.

The Gypsy and Traveller Liaison manage the local authority's registered caravan park, deal with and offer advice regarding trespass onto land by Gypsies and Travellers within the metropolitan borough area, in accordance with present legislation and arrange or liaise with owners of land for clean-up of land after an illegal trespass has been removed.

BPS solicitors have 40 years experience working with Gypsy and Traveller communities. Our main areas of work include injunction proceedings, statutory reviews of planning decisions including judicial reviews. We have a family law contract with the legal aid agency and undertake care proceedings and all other family matters.

The Traveller Liaison Services offers several services including: liaison with the settled community, provision of advice and support to landowners and the public, management of unauthorised encampments, management of the Horsdean Traveller site, support in helping Travellers access services such as health and education

We provide practical support, education, advice and much more to the unemployed and those in poor living conditions, benefit claimants, the unwaged, pensioners, families and those on low incomes. This includes: Welfare Advice, Educational Courses, Housing  Advice, Family Support, a Crèche, a Vegan lunch and volunteering opportunities.

Bristol Hate Crime and Discrimination Services is a new collaboration of expert community-based support services providing casework support for victims of hate crime and local agencies needing advice, training and education. Services include hate crime advocacy and casework, discrimination legal casework or advice, mediation, conflict resolution and restorative approaches.

We are a group established to support and advocate for the right of Gypsies and Travellers to maintain and live according to their own cultural identity in society, and to counteract the prejudice that they often meet in attempting to do so.

We are a family business with over 40 years experience in the caravan industry. Our aim is to offer the best quality Holiday homes at the lowest prices. Each caravan is refurbished to the highest of standards by our skilled engineers. Transporting any size caravan within UK and shipping throughout Europe.

Carers UK is here to listen and give you expert information and advice that's tailored to your situation, to champion your rights and support you in finding new ways to manage at home, at work, or wherever you are. Our local support directory helps carers find local sources of support.

Carlton Cabral is an experienced Solicitor specialising in fraud, serious crime, regulatory offences, general crime & driving offences. Carlton Cabral also offers emergency representation in the police station and at court.

We are a friendly and highly successful set of solicitors in Devon with strong roots in our local community and a flexible and practical approach to our clients' needs. Our aim is to provide a different kind of legal service which is less formal and more approachable while remaining completely professional.

We develop and campaign for policy solutions to end child poverty. We also provide accurate information, training and advice to the people who work with hard-up families, to make sure they get the financial support they need and carry out high profile legal work to establish and confirm families' rights.

Our legal services are child focussed and the child is always our client. We ensure that public authorities, tribunals and courts recognise children as rights holders with the right to express their views and have those views taken into account. We ensure that the voice of the child is always heard.

Citizens Advice Chiltern provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to people living or working in the Chiltern and South Bucks area on their rights and responsibilities.  Our aims are to provide the advice people need for the problems they face, and improve the policies and practices that affect people's lives. 

Rev'd Jonathan Herbert offers training for clergy and others who may be working with Gypsies and Travellers, travels around the Southwest of England with Gypsies and Travellers, and can help with mediation when the needs and wishes of Gypsies and Travellers give rise to tensions in local parishes.

We provide free, confidential and impartial advice. Our goal is to help everyone find a way forward, whatever problem they face. People come to us with all sorts of issues. You may have money, benefit, housing or employment problems. You may be facing a crisis, or just considering your options.

City Reach provides healthcare services for people who find it difficult to visit mainstream GP services. The service is provided for people who are homeless, or those at risk of being homeless, sex workers, prisoners and ex-offenders, substance mis-users, travellers and asylum seekers.

The Travellers Advice Team (TAT) provides advice, assistance and representation to Gypsies and Travellers throughout England and Wales on issues to do with PSPOs, evictions, planning matters, matters involving rented sites, homelessness, cases involving boat dwellers and other related matters. TAT's service includes a dedicated Gypsy and Traveller Helpline.

The Child Law Advice Service provides legal advice and information on family, child and education law affecting children and families. This service is provided via this website packed with how to guides and information pages. A dedicated intensive support telephone line is also available for complex matters and clarifying questions.

Our Criminal Law department deals with all aspects of representation from police station to Magistrates' Court / Crown Court and to the Appeal Court if applicable. We hold a Legal Aid Contract in crime and can advise whether public funding (Legal Aid) may be available for your case.

Deighton Pierce Glynn is one of the leading public interest law firms in the UK . Their work includes: actions against police, discrimination and equality, housing, social services, inquests, information rights and judicial reviews. Keith Coughtrie, consultant and solicitor has extensive expertise in representing Gypsies and Travellers in planning and housing cases.

Delaney & Co. Solicitors are a criminal law firm based in Hertfordshire but with a nation-wide client base. The vast majority of our clients are Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. We provide free legal advice and assistance on all criminal matters.

Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group provides valuable assistance and information to the Gypsy community in and around Derbyshire through close relationships with local authorities and services. DGLG activities include: advising local authorities on site matters, healthcare and housing guidance, educational support for children, welfare aid and training for statutory bodies.

Dorset County Council manages 50 pitches on 4 permanent sites and all unauthorised sites on public land.  We also manage 2 transit sites a temporary transit site for 25 caravans during the summer months. During the Great Dorset Steam Fair event, we also operate a transit site.

The Helpline advises and assists individuals on issues relating to equality and human rights, across England, Scotland and Wales. We can also accept referrals from organisations which, due to capacity or funding issues, are unable to provide 'in depth help and support' to local users of their services local users of their services.

The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) is a Roma-led international public interest law organisation working to combat anti-Romani racism and human rights abuse of Roma through strategic litigation, research and policy development, advocacy and human rights education.

Family Rights Group is the charity that works with parents whose children are in need, at risk or are in the care system and with members of the wider family who are raising children unable to remain at home. 

We are a leading national charity that works on behalf of all Gypsies, Travellers and Roma regardless of ethnicity, culture or background. We seek to end racism and discrimination against Gypsies, Travellers and Roma and to protect the right to pursue a nomadic way of life. We provide advice and consultancy, promote health and wellbeing, contribute to research and policy making, deliver training and much more.

GaTEWAY is an accommodation-related support service for Gypsies and Travellers across North Yorkshire. Working with single people, couples, families and older teenagers across North Yorkshire, our main aim is to support Gypsies and Travellers wishing to live independently in the community and maintain their cultural identity.

Our team offer support, advice and medical and nursing care to people who are homeless. We do this in order to help protect health while homeless and to help make positive choices in accessing mainstream primary health care. The service also hosts the Potentially Violent Patients (PVP) Service.

We are an independent law firm representing clients nationally from our offices in North Finchley, London and Tring, Hertfordshire. We have expertise in actions against police and public bodies, community care, court of protection, family, housing, landlord and tenant, mental health, power of attorney and wills, trusts and probate.

We provide advice and support to Gypsies and Travellers about accommodation, homelessness, welfare benefits, reviews and appeals, health, social services and racial discrimination. We improve the delivery of services to Gypsies and Travellers, particularly regarding the development, management and maintenance of sites by working in partnership with local authorities.

GATE is a community led organisation, we seek to educate both Travelling communities and the wider population to live side by side in a diverse society. GATE provides an opportunity for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities to represent them and have an impact on integration with the local settled communities.

The Gypsy Council were formed in 1966, to gain social justice, along with education, accommodation and civil rights for the Gypsy and Traveller community. Today, we are an NGO and a Company Limited by Guarantee, with those same values, that seeks dialogue with all Government departments, to gain access to education, training, employment, health care and appropriate accommodation through non confrontational means and to seek equality, civil rights, integration and respect for the cultures of the Gypsy, Roma and Travellers residing within the United Kingdom.

Gypsy Devils is a world-renowned orchestra bringing original works, nobly arrangements, unusual musical combinations and new image. The orchestra cooperates with many top symphonic orchestras, conductors, singers and instrumentalists of various musical genres and has performed at 5 continents and in 35 countries in the world.

Run entirely on a voluntary basis Gypsylife has established credible and trusted relationships with the Gypsy and Traveller Communities from Nottinghamshire and beyond. Our mission is to help members of the Gypsy and Traveller community to access health care, Education and accommodation and challenge discrimination at all levels.

The Gypsy Roma Traveller Outreach and Inclusion Team supports children and young people from our Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in Leeds to do well in learning and have skills for life. We provide specialist support and interventions to complement the support provided by other teams within Leeds City Council.

The Service aims to help people from all travelling communities to access health services and empower travelling communities to understand the range of services they are entitled to; and to have the opportunity to take part in courses the service runs. It also delivers cultural awareness training sessions for professionals.

EMTAS works to improve access, achievement and engagement in education. We provide a link with parents/carers and communities and provide advice and guidance on settling in, induction and transition. We help develop inclusive approaches, supporting children in school and identify opportunities to value and promote Traveller culture within the curriculum. 

Hampshire Romanys is a new support group launching in Hampshire where the Romany community are able to meet and support Romanys with education for their children, health related issues, housing issues and any other support that the Romany community are looking for help with and encourage conversations about Romany heritage.

We are a general practice but with a niche specialisation in High Court planning appeals, judicial reviews and planning injunctions at all levels. We act for a high proportion of Gypsies and Travellers and can deal with land transfers and caravan site disputes, rent problems and divorces.

We are the largest and most successful firm in the Surrey Heath area. On issues of family law we can advise on all aspects of the law relating to relationships from pre-nuptial agreements to separation, divorce, cohabitation, civil partnerships, domestic abuse, money and children.

Health Outreach provides care and support in community settings, at hostels, on the street or in the home. The team provides help and support to people who would not normally access healthcare; such as the homeless, Gypsies, Travellers, Roma, refugee and asylum seekers, migrant workers, ex-offenders and Black and Minority Ethnic groups.

Private Planner with speciality in Gypsy and Traveller site planning

Leading solicitors based  in Leytonstone but work throughout London and the South East of England. We provide services on Family Law, including Divorce, Domestic Violence and Care Proceedings, Lasting Powers of Attorney and Wills and Probate. We are one of the small number of firms who still offer Legal Aid.

Henry Hyams has a long established and deserved reputation for providing an all-round service to individuals and businesses. From personal injury to property; regulatory prosecution to driving offences; divorce to immigration, we offer the same high quality service to private and commercial clients alike.

We are a successful group of London solicitors, with a nationwide reach offering dedicated, supportive legal services. Our teams are able to provide high calibre advice on a wide range of legal matters, with particular expertise in fourteen different areas including, personal injury claims, human rights, employment and family law.

We are an established solicitors firm providing professional services on the following: family and relationship breakdown, domestic violence, children, international family, becoming a parent, mediation and collaborative law, human rights, property disputes, landlord and tenant, and housing. Our work with GRT communities is around issues of housing, public law and family law.

Howe + Co is a partnership built on commitment to the highest standards of law, and service. We act on our client's instructions, always putting our clients first and ensure that their needs are meet at every turn in the case. We specialise in four main areas of law: Personal Injury Law, Immigration Law, Human Rights Law and specialist civil litigation.

We offer advice, support and friendship to Irish prisoners in England and Wales, older Irish people, Irish Travellers and Gypsies and younger people with an Irish background. We advocate for the rights of Irish Travellers, for example by protesting with them against a site demolition, supporting their educational needs in prison or by writing to the authorities on their behalf.

We deliver a range of person-centered holistic services including welfare benefits advice and advocacy; homelessness and housing support, access to health services, alcohol and substance misuse support, resettlement support to offenders, as well as a range of cultural and social activities. Our intervention leads to improved outcomes for Service Users.

Our specialist teams of solicitors and lawyers offer a full range of legal services including: Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Family Law, Industrial Disease, Residential Conveyancing, New Build Property, Re-mortgage, Employment Advice, Wills & Probate, Immigration, Criminal Law, Road Traffic Offences, Inquests, Professional Negligence, Public Law & Civil Liberties, Regulatory Law.

We provide legal services to people via Legal Aid in respect of Community Care, Education and Public Law. In particular, we regularly challenge Local Authorities regarding their decisions on community care packages of support. We undertake discrimination cases and advise on the rights of children in need and in care. John Ford Solicitors are now part of the Sinclairslaw Group.

Kennet and Avon Boating Community and Kennet and Avon Boaters' Action Group exist to inform, defend and promote the community of live aboard boaters on the western Kennet and Avon Canal.

We provide an outreach service that supports the attendance, education, achievement and welfare of children from Gypsy, Roma,Traveller and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.

We at Kushti Bok are dedicated too spreading awareness about race equality and aim to do this through most importantly understanding. We work with local Dorset police in order to help them better understand certain minority members of society and provide expertise in dealing with these sensitive matters.

Citizens Advice Leeds provides free, confidential and independent advice to residents of Leeds and the surrounding areas. We can help with a wide range of enquiries including Benefits, Tax Credits, debt, housing and employment. You can access advice and information online, face-to-face, by telephone or via email.

Leeds GATE is a members organisation for Gypsy and Traveller people in West Yorkshire. Our aim is to improve quality of life for our communities. We work in partnership to address the issues which affect our homes, our health, our education and employment, and our circumstances within UK society.

The Multi Agency Traveller Unit in Leicestershire comprises Traveller Liaison Officers, a Public Health Co-ordinator and provides site management services for Council Sites in the County. We also have a dedicated Police Sergeant and a Traveller Education Team, ensuring that Traveller's across Leicestershire have support with access to education.

We provide direct support for Gypsy and Traveller people of all ages and assist in supporting and mentoring in areas including education, health and mental health. We also provide cultural awareness training to organisations and work with them to ensure their service meets the needs of Gypsy and Traveller Communities.

Our outreach is available for Travellers of all ages. We visit parents and new babies to assess their health, well-being, growth and development of the baby and give support as needed. We also provide health advice and assistance to children, young adults and assist adults in accessing primary care services.

A specialist law firm with some of the country's leading personal injury, product liability, clinical negligence, employment and discrimination, international and human rights teams. Unlike other law firms, we act exclusively for claimants who've been injured or treated unlawfully by others. We are based in London, Manchester and Liverpool.

As Gypsy and Traveller Liaison Officer, Nick Willey's main responsibilities include overseeing the management of the four Gypsy/Traveller sites owned by Lincolnshire County Council and dealing with unauthorised encampments stationed on land that is either the responsibility of LCC or owned by the authority in a balanced and proportionate manner.

Lincolnshire Traveller Initiative provides lifelong learning for the Traveller communities of Lincolnshire. We provide preventative health care services and help with things such as driver training, passport applications, school and college applications and community cohesion by planning events with the settled population.

Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust deliver community health services to people in their own homes, in over 60 locations including health centres and clinics, four Walk-in Centres and Bed Based Intermediate Care Centre. We also deliver specialist Dental Health Care, Therapies, Medicines Management and Nutrition & Dietetic Service.

London Boaters is a community-based organisation initially founded in 2008 to connect boaters. This website aims to act as a community resource for boaters from all sides of the canal towpath to protect the life we love.

London Gypsies and Travellers (formerly the London Gypsy and Traveller Unit) is an organisation which challenges social exclusion and discrimination, working for change in partnership with Gypsies and Travellers. We work with the community and a range of trusted partners to contribute to the development of local, regional and national policy.

Luton Roma Trust is a non-profit making, registered charity (1160404) based in Luton. Our aim is to help the local Roma community, who have migrated to the UK in recent years, to rebuild their lives in our town.

The Mary Ward Legal Centre provides free, independent advice to people who live and work in London to help them access their legal rights and entitlements. The main areas of law we can help with are debt, housing and welfare benefits.

We use community development approaches in working with Gypsy/Travellers. Our work is multi-dimensional including outreach work, community-led research, film-making, limited casework and training. We also work with partners from the statutory and voluntary sectors to develop their capacity to respond more appropriately to the needs of this community.

Dr Angus Murdoch is a Chartered Town Planner with 25 years’ experience providing expert planning advice, consultancy and representation to Gypsies and Travellers across England and Wales.

We are an independent town planning, conservation and urban design consultancy working throughout England, Northern and Southern Ireland. We work on cases involving permitted development, lawful development certificates, prior notification, enforcement notices, as well as representing clients at appeal and acting as an expert witness at Public Inquiries.

The National Association of Boat Owners is dedicated to promoting the interests of private boaters on Britain's canals and rivers and lakes. Volunteer members work with Navigation Authorities and public bodies so that boater's voices and views can be heard when decisions and being made.

NATT+ is the nationally recognised voice of Traveller Education Services. It represents and supports members at a national level by addressing Gypsy, Roma and Traveller. It provides a platform for teachers of Travellers and other professionals involved in the education of Gypsy, Roma and Travellers, to share good practice and resources and promote these through its activities.

The National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) is a volunteer organisation that campaigns and provides advice for itinerant boat dwellers on Britain's inland and coastal waterways. This includes anyone whose home is a boat and who does not have a permanent mooring for their boat with planning permission for residential use.

The Countywide Traveller Unit (CTU) brings together a specialist multi-disciplinary team to deal with the Gypsy and Traveller issues across the county in a co-ordinated and proactive way. Services include management of unauthorised encampments on all public land and reducing the problems associated with encampments.

Oblique Arts works with communities to deliver innovative high quality arts projects. An important element of our work is with the Travelling community, locally our largest ethnic minority. We offer an advocacy service in addition to art-on-site, creative literacy, oral history and archiving projects.

The National Offenders' Families Helpline can support you if a family member is in contact with the criminal justice system. We provide advice and information on all aspects from what happens on arrest, visiting a prison to preparing for release. We support families in England and Wales.

We are a Gypsies and Travellers community, working to reduce any forms of violence by promoting good health and advancing the education of Gypsies and Travellers in conditions of need, hardship or distress caused or associated with violence. We also promote equality of opportunity and good relations between Gypsies and Travellers and the settled communities.

We are the countys free healthy lifestyle service helping local residents stop smoking, lose weight, get active and drink less.
We are county wide working from a number of community locations such as libraries, GP surgeries, Pharmacies, Church venues etc.
Everything that we do is completely FREE OF CHARGE

The Ormiston Families Traveller Advocate project is part of a multi-agency, health, education and advocacy team. Our advocacy worker supports the most vulnerable traveller families on a wide range of emerging and presenting issues including well-being support, housing issues, benefit issues, access to education and signposting and advocating on behalf of families.

We specialise in Family Law (including international adoption and child abduction), Property Law, Property Litigation, Social Welfare, Wills, Probate & Disputed Estates and Personal Injury. Osbornes Law comprises more than 100 lawyers and staff with a reputation for excellence and a strong commitment to our clients.

Outside In is an award winning charity working to create a fairer and more inclusive art world. Through our exhibitions, active online community and professional training programmes, we provide a platform for artists who find it difficult to access the art world for reasons including health, disability, isolation or social circumstance.

Oxfordshire County Council Gypsy and Traveller Services is committed to ensuring that all issues that affect Travellers staying on land within the county are dealt with in a balanced and proportionate manner. We deal with any issues of unauthorised encampments and manage the six county council owned permanent sites.

Award winning, specialist criminal defence and family/children law solicitors, offering reasonable private rates and legal aid, upon assessment. We offer free 24 hr. police station attendances (covered nationally by legal aid and not means tested). We cover the North East area and beyond, and welcome clients from all backgrounds.

Pembrokeshire Care Society assists the homeless (through funding received from various sources) by identifying the issues and to then plan, develop and provide the services to alleviate them. Our services include advice, assistance and advocacy, bond certificate guarantee scheme, resettlement package, debt advice, crisis intervention, generic support service, travel warrant scheme, starter packs, furniture grant scheme and landlord advice groups.

Philip Brown is a Chartered Town Planner with more than 30 years' experience of planning matters, obtained whilst working in Local Government and private practice. He has increasingly specialised in working on behalf of Gypsies and Travellers, obtaining planning permission for close to 300 caravan sites nationally, mainly on appeal.

An independent consultancy offering advice and support from chartered professionals on all aspects of town and country planning in England, including: pre-application advice, planning applications, appeals against refusal of planning permission, enforcement issues and certificates of lawfulness. We’re experienced in obtaining planning permissions for stables and exercise areas for horses.

Planning Aid England offers planning advice and support to individuals and communities. We offer five main services and types of support: free planning advice and guidance, website and advice line, bespoke support for eligible individuals and communities, outreach and capacity building, neighbourhood planning, online resources and guides.

PDREC believes that to build a fair and just society everyone must have an equal chance to live, work and learn free from prejudice, discrimination and racism.  It values diversity and works in partnership with individuals and organisations that are also committed to race equality.

We provide free, independent information and support to everyone including disabled people, their carers, families and friends. We have a number of services across Sussex, including; employment services, independent living and an Advice Centre who can help you fill in the necessary benefits paper work and help challenge benefit decisions you disagree with.

Preston and Western Lancashire Racial Equality and Diversity Council is a voluntary organisation who provide advice and services on issues of discrimination, race hate or harassment, community relations and community cohesion and immigration related services. If we cannot help directly we shall put you in touch with the right agency.

We are a women-only independent organisation based in Crawley, providing a high standard of professional support to female survivors of sexual violence. We offer therapy for up to a year from our centre in Crawley and hub in Worthing. We also offer independent advocacy and outreach support

Report Racism GRT is a national hate incident reporting site and support service that is run by and for Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities in the UK with support from Gypsy and Traveller Empowerment Hertfordshire.

The RBOA is a member organisation, run entirely by volunteers. Its aims include maintaining and supporting a variety of live-aboard lifestyles, on many kinds of boats, both inland and coastal. It advises those considering life afloat, and aims to promote good relations between boat owners, moorings operators, and waterway users.

We are specialist lawyers in divorce, family law, probate, motoring, and all aspects of criminal defence work. Our Family Law team will handle a variety of matters efficiently and sensitively including divorce proceedings, financial settlements, and matters relating to children such as contact and residence.

Helping those affected by domestic abuse, we work alongside survivors giving practical support to help them rebuild safer lives. We offer practical help ranging from direct advice to refuge space to those in urgent need. We also work in schools teaching children about healthy relationships to prevent the next generation from repeating the pattern.

We handle development proposals in the residential, business and leisure fields and have had successes with particularly challenging projects relating to agricultural buildings and dwellings, hot food outlets and travellers. We offer planning and enforcement advice, prepare applications, prosecute appeals via the written, hearing and public inquiry procedures and make representations at local plan inquiries.

We aim to improve the quality of life for Roma refugees and migrants by helping them to overcome prejudice, isolation and vulnerability. It is also our objective to make the public aware of Roma culture, heritage and current situation of Roma refugees and migrants in the UK through cultural and informative events and publications.

The Romani Cultural Arts Company is the leading Romani and Traveller community-based organisation in Wales, traditionally using the arts and culture as a vehicle for advocacy and empowerment, amongst the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. We support individuals to become actors and agents of change in their own communities

Romany & Traveller Family History Society is the first, and still the only, British family history society for people with Romany Gypsy, Traveller and Fairground roots. We bring together other like-minded people and help them to research their family trees, find out about their heritage and share know-how and information.

RIT specializes in offering legal, medical and local government language services in all European languages. RIT offers simultaneous, consecutive, conference, face to face, telephone, skype, audio and document (including transcription, proofreading and editing) types of interpreting and translation services. Angel provides services in Roma, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Macedonian.

We can provide antenatal care for your pregnancy, arrange your scan appointments, organise any other appointments you may need or provide information on local services, home visits and one-to-one parent education sessions and even help you with housing and help with registering with a GP if you need it.

We aim to provide the advice people need for the problems they faceand equally to improve the policies and practices that affect people's lives. The service provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. It values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination.

Ruston Planning Limited are chartered town planners working on behalf of Gypsies and Travellers and have considerable experience in such cases. We can deal with planning applications, appeals, enforcement matters, and lawful development certificates. If your location is outside of the 'Area Served' your case may be considered if you are in serious need.

Scott-Moncrieff  offers legal advice throughout England and Wales, through face-to-face contact or online, via Skype or by phone. We advise people, companies and other organisations on a full range of legal issues, bringing the full weight of expert teams of specialists to supporting and advising our clients.  

Citizens Advice Sheffield advocacy services exist to provide a free, independent and confidential service for people who need independent advocacy support either online, over the phone or in person. We offer advice on issues of benefits, work, debt and money, housing, family, immigration, health and law and courts.

The Health Inclusion Team provides a nurse-led service for Gypsies and Travellers and people living in temporary or hostel accommodation, providing assessment of health and social needs, support, advice, care planning and referrals to other local services.

The Showmen's Guild is the national and local negotiating body for travelling showmen with the aim of protecting the interests of its members, Travelling Showmen, who gain their livelihoods by attending funfairs. It does this in two ways; by its code of rules for members and through the legal and constitutional processes of the land.

Whether you need legal advice on mediation, separation, divorce, arrangements for children, social services, domestic violence or any other related issues, we can help. Our Family Law Solicitors specialise in resolving family and matrimonial disputes with the aim of achieving the best result for you and your family.

Our Irish and Irish Traveller Outreach service provides one on one support to Irish and Irish Traveller women and children affected by domestic and sexual violence in communities across London, helping them to stay safe, find safe accommodation and offering housing, financial and legal advice.

SOS Rape Crisis provide specialist advocacy and therapeutic support to survivors or any form of sexual abuse/rape, any gender and all ages. Our web page includes an on-line referral form for anyone wishing to access our services.

STAG is a community organisation whose aim is to address inequalities experienced by Gypsies and Travellers in Southwark and the surrounding area. STAG's activities have developed into the following areas: support advice & advocacy, education, training & employment, housing & accommodation, health, women’s groups, youth groups and culture & representation.

We manage the permanent Council Gypsy and Traveller site containing provisions for 20 families, promote good community relations between different racial groups, work with other agencies to improve access to services for Gypsies and Travellers, respond to complaints about encampments and work with other agencies to deal with unauthorised encampments.

We are part of the Citizens Advice Bureau national helpline. We provide advice on a range of subjects including debt, social security benefits, employment, housing, immigration and asylum, health and community care. Our aim is to empower those who experience poverty and inequality to improve their lives and educate society on these issues.

Sugare & Co Solicitors has experts in a wide range of legal services on children and separated parents, cohabitation disputes, compensation claims, criminal defence, divorce and finances, injunctions, motoring law, social services and child protection. Legal aid is available in most situations and we are able to do a free legal aid assessment for you.

The Forum was founded in 1996 to create opportunities for public agencies, charities, interested individuals/groups and Traveller communities, to talk to each other. We aim to overcome prejudice, increase understanding of Traveller culture and promote equality of opportunity. Our website is where we organise our activities, share ideas, and publicise our mission.

The Surrey Law Centre has been helping disadvantaged and vulnerable people gain access to justice. We aim to quickly identify your needs and provide a non-discriminatory service to you. We will quickly signpost you to another appropriate service if it is an issue which we are unable to assist with.

Swain & Co Solicitors are experts in providing legal advice and representation on legal matters related to Family Law, Medical Negligence, Personal Injury, Community Care, Mental Health, Housing Law and Prison Law.

We manage the Haldon Ridge Travellers Site on behalf of Teignbridge District Council. If you would like to be considered for a pitch, please contact Lynne to arrange a phone or face-to-face interview to be added to the waiting list.

Tower Hamlets Law Centre provides legal advice and representation, mainly to people who work and live in the borough. We currently undertake work in the following areas: housing, immigration, welfare benefits, debt advice, employment & discrimination, community care and education.

The Traveller Movement is a national community charity promoting inclusion and community engagement with Gypsies, Roma and Travellers. The Traveller Movement seeks to empower and support Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities to advocate for the full implementation of their human rights.

TravellerSpace is a registered charity supporting Gypsies, Irish Travellers and New Travellers in Cornwall and the South West. We aim to provide support for health, education and welfare services, raise awareness and educate the wider community of Gypsy and Traveller cultures and deliver training and workshops in for schools and service providers.

Travelling Ahead supports Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities around Wales (children, young people and adults) with your rights and entitlements, make sure your voices are heard, you are treated fairly and to help challenge discrimination. We offer advice and support services, information on your rights and support to tackle discrimination.

Turn2us is a national charity helping people when times get tough. We provide financial support to help people get back on track.

We are a young and innovative law firm in Oxford and Reading offering services to individuals and businesses across a range of legal areas. Our principal objective is to provide specialist, honest and fair advice and representation to assist you with your legal issues.

Our team of experienced lawyers are here to offer advice and help with all of your legal requirements. We offer a wide range of services including, but not limited to: family law, conveyancing, company law, criminal law, personal injury and wills, probate and court of protection.

West Sussex County Council currently provide nine Gypsy & Traveller Sites across West Sussex. There is also a nine pitch transit site on Stane Street in Chichester, where travellers passing through West Sussex can stay up to three months. We help with any site queries/other issues for Gypsies and Travellers.

The Traveller Services Team is responsible for the operation and management of six residential Gypsy sites, one short-stay transit site and the Travellers Liaison Service. We are also responsible for the provision of information relating to Gypsies and travellers in Wiltshire.

Women’s Aid is the national charity working to end domestic abuse against women and children. As a federation of over 180 organisations, we provide nearly 300 local lifesaving services to women and children across the country. We provide a 24 Hour National Domestic Violence Helpline in partnership with Refuge.

The Trust was set up to work with Travellers, in a support and advice capacity, empowering individuals and the community to make the most of their opportunities. We work alongside the Travelling community in an advocacy and assistance capacity, offering specialist advice and educate the settled community in understanding and accepting Travellers in society.

We work to prevent domestic abuse and undo the damage it does to individuals, families and communities. In addition to direct services for women, men and children affected by domestic abuse, yourSanctuary provides comprehensive prevention, advocacy and educational programmes. Our clients come from diverse communities, religions, ethnicities, sexual orientations, socio-economic groups and age brackets.

We help people of working age across London who are having problems with welfare benefits, housing and homelessness or other financial issues.