Author: Brian Foster

Gypsy VC recognised

There was a Black History Month event in Sanctuary Buildings this month which will be opened by the Secretary of State and the Permanent Secretary and at which homage will be paid to Gypsy John (Jack) Cunningham  who won the VC in WW1.

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I thought that the article below might be of interest in Black History Month. It is about Rab Howell.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-27490919

I came across it after reading about the unveiling yesterday of a statue of  Arthur Wharton, the world’s first Black professional  footballer at the National Football Museum.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29532529

Margaret

Annual General Meeting 2014

Saturday, September 20th 2014 12:30 to 1:00pm

Friends Meeting House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ

Details are posted on the ACERT website.

Agenda

• Welcome and Apologies

• Chair’s Annual Report of the work done by ACERT

• Treasurer’s report

• Adoption of audited Accounts

• Election of Honorary Officers 2014-5

Chair
2 Vice Chairs
Treasurer
Committee

• ·Appointment of Auditor(s)

• ·Date of next AGM

• ·AOB

Only paid up members have voting rights.

Those wishing to stand for election must have been a member of ACERT for at least 3 months.

Nominations for Honorary Officers or members of the Committee may be made by members of ACERT in writing. The nomination and the consent of each nominee must be received prior to the meeting.

Nominations may also be taken from the floor of the meeting. Those nominated must give consent.

The total number of Committee Members including Officers is not more than 15.

The Basin – radio play by Dan Allum

Dan Allum – Writer and Artistic Director of the Romany Theatre Company.

Dan’s new radio play – THE BASIN – was be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 2.15pm on Thursday 18th Sep. The cast includes Ellie Kendrick (Game Of Thrones) Joe Sims (Broadchurch) and Candis Nergaard (Glue).

Dan is also Romany Consultant on GLUE, an new 8 part TV drama series written by Bafta Award Winner Jack Throne which begins its broadcast on E4 on Monday 15th Sep.

Partnerships: ACERT 2014 mini-conference and AGM

Saturday 20th September 2014

Friends Meeting House
173 Euston Road
London  NW1 2BJ

Programme

9:30 – 10:00 am Registration

10:00 – 10:15 am Welcome and introduction

10:15 – 10:35 am Achievements and challenges – Chair’s report.

10:35 – 10:55 am Gypsy, Roma and Traveller rights in Parliament Baroness Whittaker, Gill Brown

10:55 – 11:15 am Roma community organisation in the UK Denisa Psenickova,

11:15 – 11:35am Including Roma in Secondary school – Jan Dunka

11:35 – 11:55 am Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Police Association – Petr Torak

12:00 – 12:20 pm Gypsy, Roma and Traveller rights in Europe – Andrew Ryder

12:20 – 1:00 pm ACERT AGM and elections

1:00 – 2:00 pm Lunch (not provided) and networking

2:00 – 2:20 pm Home Education: ‘ Travellers and Home Education: safe spaces and inequality’ Kate Darcy

2:20 – 2-30 pm Hearing the voices of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities – Andrew Ryder

2:30 – 2:50 pm Dan Allum Romany Theatre Company

2:50 – 3:00 pm Valdemar Kalinin Poetry

3:00 -3:20 pm The Romani Cultural and Arts Company – Isaac Blake

3:20 – 3:30 pm Royal Opera House bridge project

3:30 – 3:45 pm Conclusions and thanks.

This conference is free but we would appreciate if people book to assist with planning