Leeds GATE

Leeds GATE We are here for Gypsies and Travellers: improving quality of life for across West Yorkshire. We are a membership organisation.

Introducing our Five Year Strategy 2026 - 2031! Over the last two decades we have grown from a local organisation into o...
05/10/2026

Introducing our Five Year Strategy 2026 - 2031!

Over the last two decades we have grown from a local organisation into one working across Leeds, Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. Alongside our members and partners, we have helped develop the nationally recognised Negotiated Stopping approach, created culturally informed mental health services and bought our own community centre.

Everything we do is rooted in community leadership. We are proud to be member-led, and over 50 families were involved in deciding our strategic aims and the change they wish to see.

This is a first for us as a charity and showcases our impact, especially over the last six years. We are looking ahead to the future, proud of our plan for the next five years and what we hope to achieve, led by our membership.

Our chair of the board Elizabeth Spaven said "This document gives a clear
direction to our work over the next five years. As a community member, as well as chair of the board, I am extremely proud of Leeds GATE and our amazing team who work with dedication and pride to deliver on our vision."

Thank you to all the members who gave their time over the last 18 months to be involved in making this strategy a reality.

You can see and read our full strategy on our website via the link in our bio https://leedsgate.co.uk/about/our-five-year-strategy/
We'll be sharing more very soon!

30/09/2026

Our young people are in an exhibition! Leeds City Museum's new exhibition It Takes A Community opens this Friday!

Meet Maria the artist and illustrator and find out about zines and how they come together. During two workshops with our youth zine ideas were developed to represent the lives and experiences of Gypsy and Traveller young people in West Yorkshire's lives - whatever they wanted to say! The finished zine will be up on display with items chosen by the young people until June 2027, alongside lots of other communities from across Leeds showcasing what community means to us today. We were really proud to be invited to be part of it.

A big thank you to Maria for the work you do with us and to our young people 😀 We can't wait to see everything finished.

Go and see It Takes a Community at Leeds City Museum from Friday- it's free!

People from Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities face many deep-rooted health inequalities, including a higher likeliho...
29/09/2026

People from Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities face many deep-rooted health inequalities, including a higher likelihood of experiencing delays in cancer diagnosis.

Through a Yorkshire Cancer Research-funded study, researchers at the University of York and community partners across Yorkshire, including Leeds GATE, are working to better understand the barriers people face when accessing cancer services and support.

Members of Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities have shared their experiences, including difficulties getting appointments, feeling unheard by healthcare professionals and delays in receiving a diagnosis.

One participant from Leeds said: "I'm an English Gypsy and mum to three children. My brother went to the doctor seven times before they told him he had a hernia and booked him in for an operation. The day before the surgery they found out it was actually cancer. This really upset us as a family.

"Trust is very important. We need information on cancer that we can understand, and for doctors and receptionists to listen."

By listening to these experiences, researchers are developing new resources to improve communication, support informed choices and make cancer services more accessible and culturally appropriate.

Join our team! There's still time to apply to our Community Development Worker vacancy in our brilliant Bradford team. W...
28/09/2026

Join our team! There's still time to apply to our Community Development Worker vacancy in our brilliant Bradford team. We'd love to hear from you if you love involving communities.

As a community development worker, you will play a key role in our organisation, building strong relationships with our communities. You will deliver outreach including activities, information, and support. You will support families with their own goals and help people organize together when facing a collective issue – aiming to improve health, homes, education, and inclusion for our members.

For more info and how to apply go to our website: https://leedsgate.co.uk/about/job-vacancies/community-development-worker-bradford

Important travel update‼If your an Irish citizen travelling from England to Ireland from the 28th September an Irish pas...
26/09/2026

Important travel update‼

If your an Irish citizen travelling from England to Ireland from the 28th September an Irish passport will be required as ID🧳

For more info - https://www.ireland.ie/en/dfa/overseas-travel/advice/great-britain/ -to-great-britain-overview

Our advocacy team are here for any support you may need📢
📱Please call us 0113 240 2444

Introducing Designed by Us: Gypsy and Traveller Voices for Inclusion Health – an exciting new five year program funded b...
25/09/2026

Introducing Designed by Us: Gypsy and Traveller Voices for Inclusion Health – an exciting new five year program funded by the The National Lottery Community Fund. We are humbled to be chosen as one of nine partnerships from hundreds of applicants across the country and to do this work with Gypsies and Travellers.

Our partnership with Proud GT CIC, led by Violet Cannon aims to address the root causes of health inequalities by changing the structures that keep things unequal and unjust for our communities, with the voices and leadership of ethnic Gypsy and Traveller people across areas of Yorkshire. Read more about our project on our website and follow along as we share more about the work over coming months, and how people can get involved.

We strongly believe that work to improve health and access to care for Gypsies and Travellers is work to make it better for the rest of society, especially those who are made invisible by traditional systems and may fall through the cracks.

Read more here: https://leedsgate.co.uk/news-and-stories/news/announcing-designed-by-us-health-inequalities/

One year since our INCREDIBLE show RIDE as part of Bradford UK City of Culture 2025 Bradford Culture Company. We still c...
24/09/2026

One year since our INCREDIBLE show RIDE as part of Bradford UK City of Culture 2025 Bradford Culture Company. We still can't get over the fact that over 360 people came to see it across one weekend in Bradford! Here's some of our favourite bits in photos💚⬇

What an amazing show with incredibly talented people - we were so proud to work with Spin Arts Southpaw Company and of course writer, rapper, artist extraordinaire Big Deli/ William who worked with us, our members and young people to create a beautiful story weaving together so many peoples experiences🎤

RIDE was always a powerful story - of a Gypsy family pushed off a plot of land and their struggle to survive moving to an estate - but is also one that is so true and raw for so many community members and their families - that's why it needed to be made and seen!

We loved been a part of RIDE from the outset, in workshops, creative arts, building the stage, collecting scrap metal, promoting the show to the BBC and capturing everything on social media and telling the story in their own words.

We hope we get to see RIDE live on stage again📢

Our Leeds office is closed today📢Our phone lines are still open📱All groups are cancelled and appointments will be rearra...
24/09/2026

Our Leeds office is closed today📢

Our phone lines are still open📱

All groups are cancelled and appointments will be rearranged ‼

Our young people are part of Leeds City Museum's new exhibition - It Takes A Community.A vibrant new exhibition bringing...
23/09/2026

Our young people are part of Leeds City Museum's new exhibition - It Takes A Community.

A vibrant new exhibition bringing together the many groups, collaborators and creatives who’ve shaped our museums over the past two decades. Co‑curated with community partners from across the city, it’s a joyful showcase of creativity, identity and shared storytelling.

They have taken part in two zine workshops with Maria creating Zines based around their cultures that will be turned into a piece of art work by Maria for their place in the exhibition.

We're very proud of our ongoing partnership with the museum and Leeds Museums and Galleries.

Our youth have filled a community cabinet with photography and objects that are meaningful to them and many museum sites have had a featured place in our Healthy Holidays youth programs.

We developed and delivered Lives of Gypsies and Travellers training for museums and galleries staff.

We co-delivered an education conference at Leeds City Museum this March!

We're excited for this partnership to continue and can't wait for the exhibition.

It's free and open to the public - Friday 2nd October

For more info - https://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/it-takes-a-community-lc5g

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