This document introduces the team behind the Travellers' Times magazine and Rural Media Company, including the CEO, editor, and other staff. It provides a brief history of how Travellers' Times started as a small newsletter and has grown into a full-color printed magazine and website. It outlines plans for a new project called TT-TV, which will include relaunching the biannual print magazine and website, developing a new digital media course, and partnering with GRT organizations. It invites potential partners to explore ways of working together and sharing content.

1. Travellers’ Times
The Rural Media Company
www.travellerstimes.org.uk
www.ruralmedia.co.uk

2. WELCOME- Meet the TT Team
 Nic Millington, CEO The Rural Media Company
 Damian Le Bas, Editor Travellers’ Times
 Charles Newland, TT website co-ordinator
 Julie Colman, Partnership & Development
Officer and Company Administrator The Rural
Media Company
 And who are you ????

6. A brief history of Travellers’ Times
• Travellers’ Times is one of Rural Media’s long term projects.
It started life as a 4 sided campaigning newsletter published
by the Law Faculty of Cardiff University
• Over the next 14 years it has been transformed, via
accessible graphic design and photo-based news and
features, into a high quality, full colour printed magazine
• On 8th April 2009 (International Roma Day) we launched TT
Online ….. This website is designed to be the UK's main
source of Gypsy, Romany and Traveller news, links and
resources that are applicable to the both the GRT community
and non-travellers alike

10. Travellers’ Times 2014-16
Our new project, TT-TV, will comprise of three main strands
• Travellers’ Times Magazine will re-launch in May 2014 as a bi-annual FREE
print resource
• ‘Your Voice’ a new digital media course has been devised and will be
delivered through workshops in partnership with local GRT agencies and
support services. Media content produced in workshops will be published
regularly on the Travellers’ Times Website
• We are re-launching the Travellers’ Times website. The new site will carry
News, History/Culture, events, films, user generated content and
Partnerships and Directory section

14. Partnerships
We want to work WITH you
During the first year of operation a partnership scheme will be developed with
national and regional GRT organisations. Based upon a standard Memorandum of
Understanding TT-TV will support and promote the work of its partners in return
for provision of content for its print and online resources
We would like to explore
• Ways and practicalities of working together
• What kind of content would be useful
• What an MOU framework would look like
• Blogs and shared best practise
• Ways in which partners could help to promote and direct traffic to the website

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@TRAVELLERSTIMES
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THE RURAL MEDIA COMPANY
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www.ruralmedia.co.uk
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