TRT World, the Turkish equivalent of the BBC, has followed the work of Drive 2 Survive for the last six months. It's documentary Being Gypsy in Britain is currently being broadcast in 21 countries across the world and is available here: Very well done to Mag Bendel l Billy Welch Bill Lloyd Sherrie Smith Claire Rice and Les Stevens for speaking up and out!

Drive 2 Survive doesn't just fight for the cultural survival of British Gypsies, Roma and Travellers, we see ourselves as part of a wider European movement to make the voices of Europe's 12 million strong Romany community heard. Jake Bowers reveals some of the European initiatives we have been part of this autumn. In October we showed our film about the Gypsy and Traveller suicide epidemic "Reaching for the Rope" at the annual Ake Dikhea Romani film festival in Berlin . Whilst the film did...

If the media has the power to drive anti-Gypsy racism, it also has the power to reverse it. Jake Bowers introduces a plan to improve European Romani media representation and production. Europe’s 12 million Romani citizens occupy an unenviable place in the continent’s media representation. On the world hand we are highly visible when conflicts arise, but we are also largely invisible within the staffing of the newsrooms which must and do report upon our community. We are highly visible in...