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Access to Healthcare Report
The report highlights the multiple barriers faced by the Roma community when accessing healthcare services and identifies a number of obstacles that the Roma face when trying to access healthcare which include language and communication barriers, knowledge of how the health system works, and limited digital literacy. The research was carried out in partnership with… Read more
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Creating a Fairer BLMK – Sharing & Learning Event
We were delighted to join the lived experience panel at the ‘Creating a Fairer BLMK’ event on Friday 17th May. Where we discussed the lived experiences that the Roma community in Luton experiences when accessing healthcare. We emphasised that the language barrier is the main obstacle that the Roma faces when trying to access basic… Read more
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Empowering the Roma in Luton Event
Luton Roma Trust is calling for the adoption of a local strategy and an action plan that supports the social integration of the Roma in Luton. The event “Empowering the Roma in Luton” took place on Thursday 11th April at the University of Bedfordshire. Luton Roma Trust organised a discussion with its partners to discuss… Read more
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Roma Genocide Remembrance Day
Today (2nd August) is Roma Genocide Remembrance Day. On the night of 2/3 August 1944, the ‘Gypsy Family Camp’ at Auschwitz-Birkenau was liquidated. Around three thousand men, women and children of Roma or Sinti origin were murdered in the gas chambers by Nazi officers. Their bodies were then burned in pits. With an increased anti-Romani… Read more
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Evaluation of Services
A new report by Civil Society Consulting (CSC) evaluates Luton Roma Trust’s successful model of support for Luton’s Roma community, illustrating how a grassroots organisation is directly addressing structural barriers faced by the UK’s most marginalised population – providing a replicable model of effective support. Read the full press release and Evaluation report here Read more
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Protest at The Grove Theatre, Dunstable
On the evening of 8th of February, the Luton Roma Trust and supporters held a protest in front of The Grove Theatre in Dunstable, where the comedian Jimmy Carr was set to perform a show in which he mentiones the „positives” of Roma being killed during the Holocaust. As a result of our protest the… Read more
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