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“I think they showed us in a good light” – Chantelle on appearing on BBC1's ‘Growing up Gypsy’

Chantelle, who featured in the recent BBC documentary Stacey Dooley: Growing Up Gypsy, talks to Stacey Hodgkins from the Travellers Times about what it was like to appear on…

The Long Road to Freedom - a poem by Raine Geoghegan

This poem by Romani poet and writer Raine Geoghegan was commissioned by the Romani and Traveller Social Work Association and uses found words which have come directly from t…

We have a duty to prepare Gypsy and Traveller children for the world of tomorrow

Chelsea McDonagh writes about how an inspiring head teacher gave her the tools and the self-belief to succeed in education and work. When I left school at 16, I didn’t know…