Posts Tagged ‘traveller’s rights’
Saturday, July 29th, 2023
The Energy Security and Net Zero (ESNZ) Parliamentary Committee is to carry out an inquiry into Preparing for the Winter, including the continued exclusion of boat dwellers and other itinerant or off-grid households from the Government’s Energy Bills Support Scheme (EBSS). The Committee will hear verbal and written evidence in September 2023. You can send your own testimony to the Committee by email to commonsesnz@parliament.uk or by post to-Energy Security and Net Zero Committee, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. You can also submit evidence online here: https://committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/3185/
The deadline for submitting your evidence is 25th August.
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Tags: Angus MacNeil MP, continuous cruising, cost of living, Danny Kruger MP, Energy Bills Support Scheme, fuel costs, heating, liveaboards, Parliament, Select Committee, traveller's rights, welfare
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Sunday, April 23rd, 2023
There will be local elections in England on 4th May 2023. The Elections Act 2022 brought in the requirement to show photographic identification for voters at these and all future elections. If you already have the right ID document, remember to take it when you vote.
If you don’t have one of the accepted forms of photo ID, you can apply for a free voter ID document, which is known as a Voter Authority Certificate.
If you want to vote on 4th May and you don’t have any of the accepted forms of ID, you will need to apply for a Voter Authority Certificate by 5pm on 25th April or you will be unable to vote.
See https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-voter-authority-certificate
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Tags: continuous cruising, electoral registration, electoral roll, liveaboards, local elections, traveller's rights, voter ID, voter registration, voting
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Sunday, May 29th, 2022
A Psychotherapy and Mental Health Skills Coaching Service for itinerant liveaboard boaters has been launched, supported by the National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) and funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. It aims to help liveaboard boaters to access the mental health support that they need. For contact details and more information, click here
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Tags: Bargee Traveller's Association, Community Fund, continuous cruising, GP registration, liveaboards, mental health, National Lottery, NHS, NHS access, traveller's rights
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Monday, March 28th, 2022
Julian House has a vacancy for a Gypsy, Roma, Traveller & Boater Outreach and Engagement Worker for Bath and North East Somerset. The part-time job covers BaNES for Roadside Travelling Community Welfare Support, and Keynsham to Dundas on the water. There is no fixed deadline to apply, Julian House recommends submitting applications as soon as possible so as not to miss out.
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Tags: boating community, community, job vacancy, Julian House, traveller's rights, Travelling Community Support Service
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
Friends, Families and Travellers has launched a new tool to support Gypsies, Travellers and members of the public to write to their MP to register their concerns about the Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. This new law will criminalise both peaceful protest and the nomadic way of life.
The Bill proposes extremely harsh legislation to criminalise trespass, which will criminalise Travellers living on roadside camps and is likely to impact upon everyone who is or wishes to live nomadically by culture, choice or necessity, including liveaboard boaters without a home mooring.
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Tags: continuous cruising, criminalisation of trespass, Friends Families and Travellers, liveaboards, nomadic way of life, Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill, traveller's rights
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
The deadline for completing the 2021 Census is the end of April, and the Census telephone helpline has added a special line for people living on boats or in caravans, vans, tents or other transient accommodation. This follows the severe difficulties that some liveaboard boaters experienced trying to get a Unique Access Code to do the census online. You can now call the Census helpline and select option 4 .
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Tags: census, continuous cruising, liveaboards, traveller's rights
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
CRT has stated that it will remove any items left on or beside the towpath between Smelly Bridge (Bridge 173) and Avoncliff if these are not removed before April 2021. Due to the pandemic, CRT has provided a skip at Bridge 173 for boaters to dispose of any unwanted items.
CRT is threatening to terminate the licences of boaters who “persistently obstruct the towpath or use Trust land for storing items from their boat”. This is another reason to oppose and resist CRT’s proposed changes to the Boat Licence Terms and Conditions
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Tags: Article 8, Boat Licence Terms and Conditions, Byelaws, complaints, continuous cruising, hire boats, liveaboards, stag parties, traveller's rights
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2020
Wiltshire Council is consulting on its future Gypsy, Roma, Traveller and Boater (GRT&B) strategy. Please make sure that the voices and views of the liveaboard boater community are heard by completing this online survey by 5pm next Thursday 12th March 2020. The survey is here https://surveys.wiltshire.gov.uk/snapwebhost/s.asp?k=158134588690
The survey asks for your comments on the Council’s draft 2020-25 strategy for the Gypsy, Roma, Traveller and Boater communities in its area. You can download the 14-page draft strategy here Draft-gypsy-roma-traveller-and-boater-strategy-2020-2025-for-wiltshire
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Tags: children, community, consultation, continuous cruising, Health, inequality, liveaboards, mental health, school, traveller's rights, Wiltshire County Council, Wiltshire liveaboard boaters survey
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