STAG Useful information

Education

Southwark Traveller Education Support ServiceA service to improve education for travellers in Southwark 1986 – 2011

Southwark School Admissions – For School admissions through Southwark Council

Southwark Local Offer – Southwark services for children with educational needs

Support from Southwark Council

Southwark Council: Gypsies & Travellers – How to apply for a pitch in Southwark

Southwark Local Support Scheme – Help with your benefits from Southwark Council

Southwark Council: Housing Benefit and Council Tax complaints – how to complain about your Housing Benefit or Council Tax

Southwark Council: Comments, complaints and compliments – Feedback on Southwark Council services

Advice

Southwark Legal Advice Network – Where to get legal advice in Southwark

Citizens Advice Southwark – Help with housing, welfare benefits, employment, consumer, immigration and debt

Southwark Group of Tenants Organisation (SGTO) – Supports tenants rights and tenant organisations in Southwark

StepChange Debt Charity – free telephone and online debt advice

Housing Action Southwark & Lewisham (HASL) – A group of Lambeth and Southwark residents who organise together to support each other with housing problems.

Discrimination & Hate Crime

Citizens Advice – Information on race discrimination against Gypsies & Travellers

Report Racism – A hate incident reporting site and support service that is run by and for Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities in the UK by GATE Herts

Employment

Love London Working – helps unemployed and economically inactive people into employment across London

Southwark Works – Helping people living in Southwark access suitable employment

Health

Gypsy & Traveller health – Reports and research by the Traveller Movement

Healthwatch Southwark – Works to improve health and care services in Southwark

GP registration – What to do if your GP refuses to register you

Gypsy & Traveller healthcare – A variety of health information for Gypsies, Roma and Travellers living on sites or roadside

Southwark Well-Being Hub DirectoryImproving wellbeing in Southwark and helping access different services

COVID-19 – Information on COVID-19 for South East London

Kooth – Online mental health support for young people

Other Gypsy, Roma and Traveller support organisations

The Traveller Movement

Friends, Families & Travellers

London Gypsies & Travellers

History & Culture

Southwark Travellers YouTube – Videos of Southwark Travellers

The History of London’s Travellers – Interactive, online maps of London to foreground the knowledge, skills and cultural lives of Travelling people,

Roads from the Past – video from Travellers Times showing the history of Gypsies, Roma & Travellers