Lincolnshire Gypsy Liaison Group was formed in 2005, following requests for assistance and support both from the Travelling community and from service providers within the county. Its management team is made up of community members. We now have an every increasing membership from across the region.
This project brief was to gauge the level of support Gypsies and Travellers would have to be included in the housing charter. We wanted to access if their
LGLG is committed to improving the accommodation issues which the community face. There is a need for more private sites, more local authority sites, and more support for families who as yet are still homeless through lack of any type of site.
LGLG were successfully awarded a grant from the Community Foundation to run a series of health and well being workshops. These are still ongoing and have proved very popular.
This is being held near Coventry this year and is being organised by members of the Federation of Gypsy Liaison Groups in conjunction with Warwickshire police.
Members of LGLG studied at Derbyshire University and have successfully now gained accreditation as Diversity Trainers.
This work was done in conjunction with Andrew Ryder and the Irish Traveller Movement. We were exploring issues of how employment had changed for the community and what help and support they would most need to enable them to be self employed and independent.
Following on from the Pastures New project we are now embarking on the Patrin Project, this increases the communities media and photography skills. For further information please visit our Patrin Project website.