MiXT-UP Travellers is a strand from our MiXT-UP three year music programme. The Travellers sessions work with young people from travelling communities, and participants range from aged four to fifteen. Mixt-Up Travellers MiXT-Up Travellers, funded by Youth Music is a programme ran by Soft Touch and the partnering organisation, HCYC Harborough District Children’s and Young people’s … Read more
A group of Gypsy Traveller Health Ambassadors have been working with Soft Touch for 6 months in 2014 to design health promotion materials for their community and for people who have limited reading abilities. Their work has been based around healthier lifestyles and positive mental health. Funded by a Leicestershire County Council Innovation Bursary, the … Read more
Young people from the city and county got a chance to develop their music skills through our Elevated programme, which targeted places where there is very little youth provision. We worked with Travellers in Lutterworth and Market Harborough; on the streets of Coalville and Loughborough; and on the city estates of Eyres Monsell and Beaumont … Read more
rokker is a magazine made by Gypsies and Travellers and settled young people. Users of the YMCA’s Education to Employment Project in Leicester and Hinckley designed images and wrote a bit about themselves. They thought up questions they wanted to ask young Gypsies and Travellers about their interests and lifestyles. Young Gypsies and Travellers living … Read more