Resource: Workshop & Seminar Details
The A Gypsy’s Wish workshops, facilitated jointly by members of the planning group, were extremely varied in terms of:
- the number of people involved (over 450);
- their ethnicity (Traveller and non-traveller);
- professional status;
- county and district councillors;
- age (children, young people and adults); and
- venues and locations
Seminars
| MENTER AGM(East of England black & minority ethnic network) | 28 Oct 2003(Cambridge) | Audience of 60 including Romany delegates |
| Public & voluntary sector representatives | 24 Nov 2003(Ipswich) | 15 delegates |
| Project launch | 23 Jan 2004(Ipswich) | 250 delegates, appx half from the Gypsy & Romany communities |
| East of England Regional Diversity & Equality Network | 8 Jun 2004(West Suffolk) | 21 delegates |
| Mingle Conference(School race equality conferences) | 30 Jun 2004(North Suffolk) | 30 delegates over two workshops |
| SCC Management Action Conference (diversity workshop) | 2 Jul 2004(Ipswich) | 16 delegates over two workshops |
| SCC hosted multi-agency A Gypsy’s Wish seminar | 13 Oct 2004(South Suffolk) | 23 delegates, 8 of whom were Travellers |
| Suffolk Association of Voluntary Organisations’ diversity seminar | 18 Nov 2004 | 70 delegates |
| Suffolk Strategic Partnership Board | 1 Feb 2005 | 16 delegates |
| A Gypsy’s Wish Project evaluation meeting | 4 Feb 2005 | Project planning group |