Professionals
We work closely with professionals across housing, health, education, social care, and other services for Gypsy and Traveller communities across West Yorkshire and sometimes beyond. Partnerships that truly share power are how we were founded, and vital to how we work to this day.
How we work
Our members and communities are strong, passionate and committed and expect the same from our relationships with others. Working with partners always comes back to our values and mission – improving quality of life for Gypsies and Travellers across West Yorkshire.Â
Read more about our values and approaches that guide our us.
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Leeds GATE respects people’s privacy
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Leeds GATE is brave and creative
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Leeds GATE helps people to help themselves
Working in partnership
Partner relationships are built on trust and equality. We value people who stick around and take the time to get to know us and our members and how we work best together. That’s how we think the best work gets done.
Working with us means partnering with:
– An award-winning community organisation with over 20 years of history and experience
– Experts in inclusion, accessibility and equity
– An organisation rooted locally, delivering regionally and with a strong voice nationally
Partnerships can look very different depending on the people and the outcomes.
We look for organisations and people with strong connection to our vision and values, who’s work links to our main areas of work and with connections to the region and our members, or the commitment to build them over time.
Examples of impactful partnership work we’ve undertaken in recent years:
Co-designed and community led research projects
– Realities Checked: Experiences of Crime and Justice in Gypsy and Traveller communities – 3 year research project – pull through from research page with image? Learn more (link to this research)
– Narrow Margins – 2-year Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded research project with Birmingham City University investigating the steady criminalisation of trespass and its impact upon marginalised communities in England.
Projects run with us that directly benefits our members on key issues that matter most
– Solidarity Network/HCT
–Â Spin Arts
Find out more about our other on-going and past projects and research
Funders
Over the last 20 years, we have built strong relationships with an array of funding bodies that support our work with our members, with a number of them pledging financial support for many years. We thank them for their ongoing commitment to Gypsy and Traveller people across West Yorkshire.
If you would like to know more about our governance and how we work, please get in touch. You can also see our annual reports for our latest accounts and financial reports.
Making a referral?
If you are from a partner organisation or other service and would like to refer someone to us for support, please download and fill in our referral form by clicking the link below. Send it back to us at contact@leedsgate.co.uk with ‘referral’ in the subject line and we’ll be back in touch as soon as we can.
Make a Partnership Enquiry
Do you want to be part of our vision and work together with our members on key issues that matter most to them? Get in touch.
Training
Leeds GATE staff and members are experts in inclusion – and we believe learning about a community’s history and culture is the first step to better understanding. Using years of combined experience and community insight, our bespoke training packages offer an engaging and educational session built on our vision and values.
Visit us and other ways to Contact Us
We work across West Yorkshire but have our community building in Leeds, where we’ve been based since 2006. View Our Building.
If you’d like to visit and meet with our team and our members please contact us to make an enquiry.