Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month 2024

Please send details of events you would like to share with ACERT members and supporters.

Download our GRTHM participation packs below:
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month 2024 Brochure
Education Pack for Schools and Prisons 
Digital Engagement Pack (including social templates!)
Timeline of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller histories
Template images: for individuals Twitter and Instagram, for organisations Twitter and Instagram
Chatteris Museum (Cambs) is currently in partnership with OneVoice4Travellers, exploring the embedded histories of Travellers in the Chatteris area, running from March 2024 to the end of the year. I attach details of our pop-up in June that may be of interest. Other free activities will be happening over the summer. The project will be on display in the Museum from September.
Writing Gypsy History – Gypsy, Roma, Traveller History Month Event 
Thursday 06 June 2024 15:00 – 17:00
Elvet Riverside 1, Durham University, 83 New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3AQ
Room: ER141

Moving for Change fundraising webinars

Moving for change YouTube channel

Webpages and downloads

Intergenerational lives and learning

A hybrid conference celebrating the benefits, opportunities and challenges of multi-generational family lives

Copyright : Ezster Halazi, Stow Fair 2023.

Friday 9th February 2024

9-30 to 4-00pm

The Glass Tank, Abercrombie, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP

Please note: You will find it difficult to park vehicles near the campus, but Oxford has three excellent Park and Ride Car Parks on the outskirts. Bus 400 runs between Thornhill Park and Ride every 10 minutes with buses stopping directly at Headington Brookes.

Buses stop at B4 and B5 by the Main Entrance to the Gipsy Lane Site. The Glass Tank is in the Abercrombie Building, left at the top of the Piazza, after the Colonnade Store building.

Further details and booking.

Gypsy, Roma and Traveller families often comprise three or four generations living together or close by. Traditions and culture, skills and trades, music and story, financial and emotional support transfer between them. Schools that succeed in including Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils in one generation continue to work well with succeeding generations of the extended family.

Our conference will give participants an opportunity to share and discuss how intergenerational life works for them, how it is experienced by different generations and the challenges posed by contemporary society.

Oxford Brookes is the home of the RIBA studio which is a practice-based route to qualification as an Architect. Its programme director is ACERT member Maria Faraone, and we plan to incorporate content from course participants into the day.

We hope the day will be advertised around all the Oxford colleges, so students with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller heritages, and those who want to support our campaign for equal rights can meet us and learn more about what ACERT does.

Exhibitions and Stalls

  • Angel Donaldson: The Nawken Knowledge Project 
  • Prof. Thomas Acton:  Romanistan Publication Bookstall
  • Claire Barker: Hampshire EMTAS Traveller Team
Information about Headington Campus, its opening hours, facilities and how to get there.

Community Builder Training course

Protection Approaches, a charity working to prevent all identity-based violence, is offering 6 hours free online training on community building to members of voluntary and community groups, staff at local councils, and businesses across the country.

session one: 9th of August 10 am – 1 pm

session two: 16th of August 10 am – 1 pm

You can register for the session and find out more info here

Participants who complete the training will receive a certificate and will be encouraged and supported to apply what they have learned in their work and community activities. 

What is COMMUNITY BUILDER TRAINING?

A online training course facilitated by leading experts in building kinder, safer more inclusive communities. During interactive sessions taking place over either two days you will discuss and learn about: 

  • the processes that create divides, prejudice, and identity-based violence
  • what really works in building kinder, safer, more inclusive communities
  • how to design impactful projects for positive change
  • principles to guide how to work in and with communities in meaningful, participatory ways

Following the training, every participant will be encouraged and supported to apply what they have learnt in the training to work they are already doing, or even through a new initiative, whether it is in their workplace, community, group, or club.

Who is it for?

The training is aimed at anyone passionate about creating positive change in their communities and will help them to build their knowledge and skills on what really works to bring people together, tackle injustice, and increase cohesion. The expert-led sessions see participants guided through a series of interactive activities and discussions to explore how they can contribute to building strong, inclusive, connected, and equitable communities.

Contact Szymon Glowacki if you have any questions.

Please share widely with anyone you think could be interested.