We Are Proud. We Are Resilient. We Are Taking Back Our Narrative.
Gypsy and Traveller-led advocacy, research and change
We are not here simply to be consulted. We are here to lead.
Proud Gypsy Traveller CIC is an ethnic Gypsy and Traveller-led organisation delivering planning and welfare advocacy, community-led research, policy work, dialogue-led training and creative projects.
We combine lived experience, professional knowledge and evidence from our communities to challenge discrimination, influence decisions and create practical change.
What we do
Planning & Welfare
A planning application is never only about land. PGT produces culturally informed welfare evidence and supports families through planning processes.
Community-Led Research
We design and deliver research with communities, not on them, using trusted conversations, oral evidence and culturally appropriate ways of taking part.
Training & Dialogue
We create structured spaces where people can ask difficult questions, examine assumptions and understand how practice affects real families.
Heritage & Storytelling
Storytelling is power. We support Gypsy and Traveller people to record, protect and share their own histories through oral testimony, writing, exhibitions and creative work.
FROM OUR ARCHIVE
People. Place. Evidence. Memory.
A changing glimpse of the photographs, family histories, exhibitions, research and practical resources held across the Proud Gypsy Traveller archive.
Hall family, 1936. 
Extended Gypsy family, 1950s. Reading wagon passing Doncaster Minster. 
Henry Smith minding donkeys at St Leger Fair. Exploring the Proud Gypsy Traveller exhibition, 2016. Paper flower workshop during the early PGT project, 2016. 
Recovered exhibition film, made in 2016. 
The Weight We Carry — community-led mental health work. 
Expecting to Be Heard — community voices and evidence. 
PGT planning policy and NPPF work. 
What Was Taken? — memory, evidence, survival and repair. 
Crisis Planning for Gypsy and Traveller Families. 
Identity on Paper — a PGT crisis-planning toolkit.
This is only a glimpse. The wider archive includes family photographs, oral history, project records, exhibitions, community activity, research, policy work and material created across PGT’s history.
Decisions about our lives should not be made without us
We speak for ourselves, on our own terms.
For generations, other people have spoken about Gypsy and Traveller communities, researched us, designed services for us and made decisions affecting our homes, health, education and families.
Proud Gypsy Traveller CIC was created to challenge that imbalance. We centre the voices, knowledge and leadership of ethnic Gypsy and Traveller communities and combine lived experience with professional expertise and evidence.
Led by community
Gypsy and Traveller people are not an audience for our work. They help shape it, deliver it and decide where it should lead.
Grounded in evidence
We bring together community knowledge, lived experience and professional practice so that evidence can lead to practical change.
FROM THE BLOG
Stories, Evidence & Change
Writing, commentary, community stories, research, policy, history and reflections from Proud Gypsy Traveller.
Some pieces begin with one person’s experience. Others look at the evidence or systems sitting behind it. Together, they create a record of what our communities have lived, challenged, created and changed.
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Found Again: A Film From Our First Proud Gypsy Traveller Exhibition
A recovered film from the first Proud Gypsy Traveller exhibition work is placed back into the community archive, with its 2017 file…
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When You Grow Gills: The Fight We Inherit
At 47, I finally understand why my mam was tired. A personal reflection on the reports, the repeated fights, and what we…
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Because Roseanna Found the File: Why What Was Taken? Matters Now
By Dr Violet Cannon, Proud Gypsy Traveller CIC This report began with history. But somewhere along the way, it became personal. When…
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Tell us what is happening and what help you need.
We will be honest about whether PGT is the right organisation to help. Where we can assist, we will explain the next step clearly. Where another organisation is better placed, we will try to identify the most appropriate route.
Ready to work differently?
If your organisation only wants approval for a decision it has already made, PGT is unlikely to be the right partner.
If you are prepared to listen honestly, share power, confront discrimination, colonial thinking and act on evidence, we want to hear from you.
Talk to us about community-led research, planning and welfare evidence, policy development, training, engagement and creative projects.
Proud Gypsy Traveller CIC · Based in Yorkshire and working nationally · Company number: 16575026