Traveller Pride Christmas Card scheme relaunches, with the Home Secretary top of the list!
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After a successful run in 2020, Traveller Pride is once again launching a scheme where LGBT+ Travellers in the UK can claim a Christmas card from the organisation to help promote a sense of inclusion and to combat isolation; but one card will deviate from the target audience as it makes its way to Home Secretary Priti Patel MP.
“It hasn’t been a year where the relationship between Travelling communities and the Home Secretary has been the best, this Police Crime Sentencing and Courts bill has a lot of us feeling put upon and despairing at times, so we thought we’d extend a gesture of peace upon earth and goodwill by sending her one of our beautiful cards,” said Tyler, Traveller Pride’s founder and director.
![Priti Patel](/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/paragraphs/images/2021-11/800px-officialportraitofrthonpritipatelmpcrop2.jpg?itok=4WgMzoV0)
LGBT+ Travellers can request a card up until 17th December by a form on the Traveller Pride website. On that same form, Travellers are able to leave a suggestion for something to write in Priti Patel’s card.
“Our hope is that by sending a bit of goodwill we will get a Christmas miracle, or at the least it might show that we’re more than the stereotypes that have led to this bill and that we’re better than that.” Tyler continued.
![Traveller Pride Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/paragraphs/images/2021-11/tp-logo.jpg?itok=MDEUluL7)
Traveller Pride recently went from being an unregistered collective to a Community Interest Company, with the hope being that this will mean more events and services in the future. It is the first LGBT+ Organisation for Travellers in the UK.
TT News/Traveller Pride