In the past year, London Gypsies and Travellers worked with more than 500 families, supported 50 young people to transform their lives, confronted councils for causing a housing crisis and worked with communities to prevent evictions.
These are just some of the achievements marked in LGT’s 2025 Annual Report and celebrated at the Annual General Meeting on 29th January which attracted around 80 people.
It has been, in the words of LGT Chair Helena Kiely-Savin, an important year for the organisation. “LGT works alongside Gypsy and Traveller communities across London, supporting people to deal with everyday pressures while also pushing for longer-term change,” she wrote in the annual report. “Much of the year’s work has been making sure we are set up to do that well – now and into the future.”
A key focus has been putting together the organisation’s Strategic Plan 2026-29, which identifies four main strategic ambitions: organisational resilience, homes, community power and equity and inclusion. The 2025 Annual Report, now available for download, describes LGT activity in all four of those areas during the past year.
Highlights in these areas were reported by LGT staff during the Annual General Meeting. Rhianna Ketley, Community Development and Campaigns Lead, presented a video (see below) showing how LGT had campaigned with families on the Lynton Close site in Brent when they were threatened with eviction. Nancy Hawker, Policy and Research Officer, described work supporting Enfield residents who have been trapped in temporary accommodation and are at risk of homelessness as a result of council policy.
Padmini Ravi, Bright Futures Programme Lead, paid tribute to the energy of the young people who had participated in the programme during the year. And Geraldine Lindsay, Head of Family Services, introduced a remarkable recording from a man who had participated in LGT’s Phoenix Arise programme for perpetrators and victims of domestic abuse. He spoke openly about what he had learned during the course about the impacts of his behaviour and said he did not know where he or his family would have been without LGT.
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