Gypsies, Travellers and Roma APPG

First Registered: 13/11/2015 • Last updated on: 24/01/2024

To provide a forum for parliamentarians concerned about issues facing Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities and seek to address these issues and challenge inequalities.

Note: All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are informal, cross-party groups formed by MPs and Members of the House of Lords who share a common interest in a particular policy area, region or country. APPGs have no official status within Parliament.
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11 Current APPG Officers
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth Portrait
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
Honorary President
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 5th November 2019
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville Portrait
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 10th October 2018
Peter Bottomley Portrait
Peter Bottomley
Officer
Conservative - Worthing West
Joined: 29th March 2017
82 APPG Memberships
12 Step Recovery , Adult Education , Afrikan Reparations , Ageing and Older People , Archaeology , Austria , BBC , British Muslims , British Overseas Territories , Carbon Monoxide , Children in Police Custody , Citizens' Rights , Closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility , Commonwealth , Community Development , Croatia , Cycling and Walking , Dark Skies , Democracy and Human Rights in the Gulf , Dentistry and Oral Health , Disability , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Ethnic Minority Business Owners , Ethnicity Transplantation and Transfusion , Explosive Threats , Fatherhood , Film and Broader Screen , Flags and Heraldry , Frozen British Pensions , Global Security and Non-Proliferation , Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood , Holocaust Memorial , Hospice and End of Life Care , Immigration Detention , Internet, Communications and Technology , Ireland and the Irish in Britain , Leasehold and Commonhold Reform , Limits to Growth , Manufacturing , Maternity , Media , Media Freedom , Music , Muslim Women , National Parks , National Trust , Night Time Economy , No Recourse to Public Funds , Opera , Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , Park Homes , Performing Arts Education and Training , Photography , Public Accountability , Race and Community , Religion in the Media , Religious Education , Rowing , Scientific , Scotch Whisky , Sexual and Reproductive Health in the UK , Single Parent Families , Social Enterprise , Social Integration , Social Science and Policy , South East , St George's Day , Sustainable Finance , Tibet , Transport Safety , Ukraine , United Nations , United Nations Women , Vascular and Venous Disease , Water, Sanitation and Hygiene , Western Sahara , White Ribbon UK , Wine and Spirits , Wine of Great Britain , Women and Work , Women in Transport , Zimbabwe
Nadia Whittome Portrait
Nadia Whittome
Officer
Labour - Nottingham East
Joined: 17th May 2023
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Mary Kelly Foy MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 3000.

Email: mary.foy.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Abbie Kirkby, Friends, Families and Travellers, Community Base, 113 Queens Road, Brighton BN1 3XG. Tel: 01273 234 777

Email: appg@gypsy-traveller.org

Secretariat:

Friends, Families and Travellers acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/

Group's Website:

https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/appg/

Date
22 Jan 2023
Source
Friends, Families and Travellers
Description
Friends, Families and Travellers is paid by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust to act as the group's secretariat   From : 22/01/2023 To : 21/01/2024
Value
£22,501
Date
22 Jan 2022
Source
Friends, Families and Travellers
Description
Friends, Families and Travellers is paid by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust to act as the group's secretariat   From : 22/01/2022 To : 21/01/2023
Value
£22,501
Date
22 Jan 2021
Source
Friends, Families and Travellers
Description
Friends, Families and Travellers is paid by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust to act as the group's secretariat   From : 22/01/2021 To : 21/01/2022
Value
£22,501
Date
22 Jan 2020
Source
Friends, Families and Travellers
Description
Friends, Families and Travellers is paid by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust to act as the group's secretariat   From : 22/01/2020 To : 21/01/2021
Value
£21,001
Date
18 Jul 2019
Source
Friends, Families and Travellers (funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust)
Description
Secretariat   From : 18/07/2019 To : 17/07/2020
Value
£19,501
Date
18 Jul 2018
Source
Friends, Families and Travellers (funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and Allen Lane Foundation)
Description
Secretariat   From : 18/07/2018 To : 17/07/2019
Value
£22,501
Date
1 Apr 2018
Source
Friends, Families and Travellers (funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust)
Description
Secretariat   From : 01/04/2018 To : 17/07/2018
Value
£6,001
Date
1 Jan 2017
Source
Traveller Law Reform Project
Description
Secretariat   From : 01/01/2017 To : 31/12/2017
Value
£9,001
Date
1 Jan 2015
Source
Traveller Law Reform Project
Description
Secretariat   From : 01/01/2015 To : 31/12/2015
Value
£13,501

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Gypsies, Travellers and Roma APPG

Former APPG Officers
Baroness Brinton Portrait
Baroness Brinton
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 5th April 2023
Deidre Brock Portrait
Deidre Brock
Officer
Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith
Joined: 29th March 2017
Departed: 5th April 2023
Gill Furniss Portrait
Gill Furniss
Officer
Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 21st April 2021
Kate Green Portrait
Kate Green
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Former Member for Stretford and Urmston
Joined: 29th March 2017
Departed: 1st July 2020
No other APPG Memberships
Baroness Harris of Richmond Portrait
Baroness Harris of Richmond
Vice-Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 28th April 2016
Departed: 29th August 2018
3 APPG Memberships
County , Isle of Man (Manx) , Mindfulness
Neil Coyle Portrait
Neil Coyle
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
Joined: 28th April 2016
Departed: 15th February 2017
Lord Evans of Rainow Portrait
Lord Evans of Rainow
Vice Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 13th November 2015
Departed: 15th February 2017
1 APPG Membership
Football Club
Harry Harpham Portrait
Harry Harpham
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Former Member for Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
Joined: 13th November 2015
Departed: 3rd February 2016
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Avebury Portrait
Lord Avebury
Co-Chair
Liberal Democrat - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 13th November 2015
Departed: 3rd February 2016
No other APPG Memberships