Friday 21 April 2017
St Day Gypsy and Traveller Women's Group Open Day 2017
Hard to believe another year has gone by. Join us at Teyluva Children's Centre in St Day to celebrate all that we've achieved over the past twelve months - there'll be art and craft to look at at, displays to read, dancing and food to eat.
Wednesday 1 March 2017
Gypsy and Traveller History finds a home at the Cornwall County Records Office
TravellerSpace were delighted to be able to hand over our first batch of Gypsy and Traveller oral history recordings to the Cornwall County Records Office this February.
Officially handing over our Gypsy and Traveller Heritage recordings
on Friday 24th February 2017.
Mark Curnow, Callum Richards, Vanessa Boase (TravellerSpace), Charley Richards, Shania Davis, Chloe Phillips (CRO)
Mark Curnow, Callum Richards, Vanessa Boase (TravellerSpace), Charley Richards, Shania Davis, Chloe Phillips (CRO)
Thanks to a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, a group of young Gypsies and Travellers in Cornwall have had the opportunity to find out
more about their family history and the wider history of their communities. The young people have interviewed older generations to find out how they lived and how their lives have changed.
The recordings cover a wide range of topics, including trotting races, cooking on
the open fire, the importance of religion, and the challenges of facing
prejudice.
A group of pupils from Pool School accompanied TravellerSpace to the Cornwall County Records Office to pass on the first ten recordings, so that the recollections can be accessed by all for generations to come.
We were made very welcome by Chloe Phillips who showed us around, before we deposited the recordings. Chloe also showed us how to do quill writing
and seal making. We took with us
photographs representing topics covered in the interviews.
We are very proud of how well the
young people have engaged with this project. The students asked great
questions, and we have been able to record some absolute fantastic stories.
"It will help other people understand better about Gypsies and Travellers. People are kinder when they know a little about us" - Project participant Kelly Price
If you would like to be involved in this project - as
a participant or volunteer - please get in touch.
Thursday 20 October 2016
Job Opportunity with TravellerSpace
TravellerSpace is looking for an Early Years Worker - 15 hours a week £20,972 pro
rata (to cover maternity leave).
This post is for an experienced, dedicated worker to co-ordinate our Early Years work with Gypsy & Traveller children. Experience of working with children with challenging behaviour is essential.
The post involves planning appropriate activities for young children, which take place during our weekly Gypsy & Traveller Women’s Group, literacy group and other activities. There are also occasional visits to roadside families in our playbus.
Each pre-school child has their own Learning Journal which needs to be regularly updated; detailed session plans which include learning goals for each activity must be submitted to the Project Manager.
Shortlisted candidates will be required to provide examples of session planning.
For more details email tspace@travellerspace-cornwall.org
Closing date for applications is 10th November.
This post is for an experienced, dedicated worker to co-ordinate our Early Years work with Gypsy & Traveller children. Experience of working with children with challenging behaviour is essential.
The post involves planning appropriate activities for young children, which take place during our weekly Gypsy & Traveller Women’s Group, literacy group and other activities. There are also occasional visits to roadside families in our playbus.
Each pre-school child has their own Learning Journal which needs to be regularly updated; detailed session plans which include learning goals for each activity must be submitted to the Project Manager.
Shortlisted candidates will be required to provide examples of session planning.
For more details email tspace@travellerspace-cornwall.org
Closing date for applications is 10th November.
Thursday 5 May 2016
Tuesday 3 May 2016
A Thank You To All Our Funders
Five years' ago we were awarded core funding from the Big Lottery Fund . This allowed TravellerSpace to grow and develop, enabling us to support more Gypsies and Travellers to access services and opportunities and to be heard in decision and policy making processes. That funding came to an end in April of this year, leaving our future looking uncertain.
TravellerSpace worked with a number of different funding bodies looking at ways in which we could strengthen our organisation, continue our current projects and develop new ones.
We are delighted to report that we are now on more stable ground, thanks to the generous support of the following organisations. We owe them a massive debt of thanks for showing faith in TravellerSpace and for recognising the needs of Cornwall's Gypsy and Traveller communities.
Over the next few months we will be developing our new website and exploring ways our friends and supporters can help. In the meantime if you'd like to know more or would consider a donation, please contact us at tspace@travellerspace-cornwall.org
In no particular order we say thank you to:
The Henry Smith Charity
The Tudor Trust
Lloyds Bank Foundation
BBC Children In Need
The Heritage Lottery Fund
UK Community Foundations and Comic Relief
The Allen Lane Foundation
The Clothworkers' Company
Cornwall Council Gypsy, Traveller and Showpeople Site Consultation
Cornwall Council is launching a public consultation
on how and where residential, transit and Showpeople sites can be
provided for Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling Showpeople in Cornwall.
The consultation period runs from Monday 25 April until 5pm on Monday 6 June 2016 and will influence the Gypsy and Travelling Communities Site Allocations Development Plan (DPD), to meet needs identified as part of the Cornwall Local Plan.
Cornwall Council needs to provide suitable, well managed sites in appropriate locations, to meet the existing and future needs of Gypsies and Travellers. This will enable the provision of decent homes in the future for these communities and particularly those that need assistance in finding safe and secure sites to live on or stay on whilst they are travelling in Cornwall. The provision of a range of additional authorised sites should help alleviate the problems sometimes experienced when groups of Travellers use unauthorised and unsuitable sites.
Cornwall has a number of approved and authorised Gypsy & Traveller sites, however, there are also unauthorised sites (without planning permission). Evidence available on the accommodation needs of Gypsies and Travellers in Cornwall suggest:
Once complete, the DPD will sit alongside the Cornwall Local Plan: Strategic Policies document and the Council’s Gypsies and Travelling Communities Strategy and will provide greater definition as to how key policies relating to Gypsies, Travellers and Traveling Showpeople will be delivered in Cornwall.
As well as being accessible on the Council’s website, hard copies of the ‘Scoping document’ can also be accessed at any Library or One-Stop-Shop. You can also email localplan@cornwall.gov.uk for further information.
All comments should be returned to the Council by 5pm on Monday 06 June 2016.
The consultation period runs from Monday 25 April until 5pm on Monday 6 June 2016 and will influence the Gypsy and Travelling Communities Site Allocations Development Plan (DPD), to meet needs identified as part of the Cornwall Local Plan.
Cornwall Council needs to provide suitable, well managed sites in appropriate locations, to meet the existing and future needs of Gypsies and Travellers. This will enable the provision of decent homes in the future for these communities and particularly those that need assistance in finding safe and secure sites to live on or stay on whilst they are travelling in Cornwall. The provision of a range of additional authorised sites should help alleviate the problems sometimes experienced when groups of Travellers use unauthorised and unsuitable sites.
Cornwall has a number of approved and authorised Gypsy & Traveller sites, however, there are also unauthorised sites (without planning permission). Evidence available on the accommodation needs of Gypsies and Travellers in Cornwall suggest:
- There is a shortage of and a need for transit sites and emergency stopping places;
- More public sites are needed to meet the needs of Travelling communities in addition to the three already provided
- There is a need to facilitate the provision of private sites to meet the expanding needs of Gypsy and Traveller families in Cornwall.
- 318 residential pitches on both public and private sites, including the requirement for a new public site or sites to meet the needs of different Traveller groups;
- 60 transit pitches strategically located across Cornwall (15 of these were recently given planning permission) together with a network of emergency stopping places; and
- additional Travelling Showpeople plots.
Once complete, the DPD will sit alongside the Cornwall Local Plan: Strategic Policies document and the Council’s Gypsies and Travelling Communities Strategy and will provide greater definition as to how key policies relating to Gypsies, Travellers and Traveling Showpeople will be delivered in Cornwall.
As well as being accessible on the Council’s website, hard copies of the ‘Scoping document’ can also be accessed at any Library or One-Stop-Shop. You can also email localplan@cornwall.gov.uk for further information.
All comments should be returned to the Council by 5pm on Monday 06 June 2016.
Wednesday 18 November 2015
New Project Gives Young Gypsies and Travellers an Opportunity to Discover Their History
Thanks to a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), a group of young Gypsies and Travellers in Cornwall will have an opportunity to find out
more about their history.
With the help of TravellerSpace, working
in partnership with the University
of Exeter’s Centre for Cornish Studies, the young people will find out about how older generations of
their families lived and document important heirlooms and traditions from the
last 100 years. The two year project will include displays, photography, oral
history and the chance to work alongside professional historians to record what
is discovered.
"It will help other people understand
better about Gypsies and Travellers.
People are kinder when they know a little about us" - Kelly Price, project participant
"We are delighted to have received this
grant, and are eager to start supporting the young Gypsies and Travellers of Cornwall to learn new
skills in heritage, interviewing, and photography." - Katie Wise, TravellerSpace
'This is a fantastic project,
involving young people in researching, recording and sharing the rich heritage
of Gypsy and Traveller communities. It's a terrific opportunity for young
people to learn a range of new skills which is something that we're really keen
to support.' - Nerys Watts, Head of Heritage Lottery Fund South West
A photograph display will be created and displayed at
a number of venues in Cornwall.
If you would like to be involved in this project, as
a participant or volunteer, please get in touch with TravellerSpace.
Thursday 17 September 2015
Cornwall Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessment 2015
Need a pitch on a
Council site? Want to buy your own ground? Tired of being always moved on? This
is your chance to have your say.
Cornwall Council
have commissioned an independent assessment of the accommodation needs of
Gypsies and Travellers in the county. This piece of work follows on from a
flawed assessment carried out in 2014. TravellerSpace and Ruston Planning Limited successfully challenged
this assessment at Cornwall Council's Local Plan Examination. The
Inspector recognised that it was not developed in conjunction with, or informedby, active engagement with representatives of the Gypsy and Traveller Community
in Cornwall, so
called for it to be carried out again.
This new study will
provide Gypsies and Travellers with a way to speak about their accommodation
issues and preferences.
TravellerSpace are
working in partnership with Southern Horizons Limited and Dr Zoë James, from Plymouth University to talk with Gypsies and Travellers
throughout the county over the next month. The study will focus on permanent pitch
provision, but will also look at the need for transit sites and also Gypsies
and Travellers currently living in housing.
The findings will
be analysed by the research team and a written report including pitch/plot
calculations will be given to the Council by November 2015. The study findings are expected to help
inform the Local Plan, which is the document that guides what development is to
take place in Cornwall.
We understand that people
will be worried about passing on information to the Council, particularly if
living on an unauthorised site.
There are also some
separate questions at the end of the main survey about experiences of prejudice
and victimisation. These do not form
part of the Needs Assessment and are purely voluntary if people wish to talk about
their experiences. This information will
be used (anonymously) by Dr Zoë James as part of an academic study to inform policy around this important area of
work, although a short briefing paper about the findings will be also prepared
for Cornwall Council.
The evidence we
gather will help at least some people to get planning permission & may
support any case for transit sites. It will show where sites are over crowded
and where new pitches will be needed in the future as children grow up and have
families of their own.
Caroline on 07939 210 014 or email
tspace@travellerspace-cornwall.org
Tuesday 2 June 2015
Travelling Forward
TravellerSpace are able to offer bespoke qualification courses for Gypsy and Traveller young people aged 14 and over, who are not otherwise in education or employment. We can help with travel and child care if needed. Email or ring the number below for more information.
St Day Women's Group Open Day 2015
St Day Gypsy & Traveller Women's Group will be holding their annual open day on the 17th June, 2015. Everyone's welcome to join our celebration of everything the women & children have achieved in the last year and there's lots to be proud of! If you want to come please ring or email to confirm.
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