Gypsy Traveller projects
Pearl Smith

My name is Pearl Smith, I am a Community Development worker for Gypsies and Travellers and I work for The Forest Bus.

I am doing a lot of work on Penny Hill, Tynefield and Bury Brickfields sites. We have got a resident community up and running on bury Brickfields and are in the middle of getting a resident community on Tynefield.

I have managed to get a travelling girl into Totton College where she is doing a nail course, and 6 more girls are interested. I am also doing work packs for the children that do not go to school at the moment.

Comments: “We do not know what they would do without the resident community worker on Bury Brickfields”. (Louise King and Doreen Smith)

“I wouldn’t have been able to get into college if Pearl and not been able to help me.” Sharna.