STAG Useful information
Education
Southwark Traveller Education Support Service – A 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 Directory – Improving 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
Friends, Families & 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