ly as May 2018 a Commons Briefing Paper referred to a “lack of robust evidence” relating to Travelling communities. This often-repeated claim has been a handy excuse for neglecting the needs of all Travelling communities. In response, London Gypsies and Travellers is undertaking a London-wide project to map recorded population data, sites, camps, and tenures across every London borough, and to bring the voices of Travelling Showpeople, Irish Travellers, and Romany Gypsies across London to the production of their own histories. The project will create accessible online maps showing existing sites and yards as well as those that have been lost, and foreground the experiences of London’s Travelling citizens of life in London today, as well as their histories"
The project is funded by a grant of £99,900 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, made possible by money raised by National Lottery players.
London Gypsies and Travellers will work with Mapping for Change, a social enterprise that links mapping with local community knowledge to create tools for social change.