Travellerspace

What Travellerspace does

Travellerspace (Charity Registration 1150075; Company Registration 8283049) is a UK registered charity founded circa 2002 to support Gypsy and Traveller communities in southwest England. It operates two physical hubs — the Teyluva Centre in St Day, Cornwall (lease taken over from Cornwall Council in February 2018), and a Devon branch established in 2023 based in Totnes, led by Angi Whitehead-Gardiner — plus a mobile Playbus serving isolated sites in Devon. Service delivery spans early years support, youth groups (boxing, fire-safety visits, cultural outings), education programmes including literacy/numeracy and bespoke courses for 14+ year-olds not in education or employment (Travelling Forward), weekly women's groups, and a health drop-in that hosts the award-winning Teyluva Midwifery Team — a 2019 partnership with Kernow Maternity Voice Partnership and NHS Cornwall midwifery that delivers bespoke antenatal and postnatal care addressing a documented four-fold pregnancy-loss disparity. TravellerSpace is also a designated Third Party Hate Crime Reporting Centre.

The organisation is not a technology company — it runs on a WordPress website, has no proprietary platform, APIs, or mobile applications, and conducts no disclosed AI/ML work. Service distribution is purely direct, through community centres and outreach.

The business model is a traditional UK small-charity grant-funding model. All services are provided free of charge to beneficiaries; there is no commercial pricing model. Income is assembled from more than a dozen grant-makers spanning Big Lottery Fund (core funding through ~April 2016), Henry Smith Charity, Tudor Trust, Lloyds Bank Foundation, BBC Children In Need, Heritage Lottery Fund, Comic Relief via UK Community Foundations, Garfield Weston, Allen Lane Foundation, Clothworkers' Company, Cornwall Community Foundation, Awards for All, Silver Lady Fund, and Friends Families & Travellers. Post-2016, the organisation diversified away from a single core funder toward a portfolio of restricted and unrestricted grants. Headcount is reported at five employees (num_employees) and revenue is not publicly disclosed, implying sub-£500k annual income typical of small regional UK charities. Marketing and outreach rely on community networks, a community steering group using co-design, occasional blog/website publishing, and participation in Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month. The organisation is governed independently with no parent company.

Name

Travellerspace

Legal name

TravellerSpace

Website

https://travellerspace-cornwall.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Travellerspace is a UK registered charity (founded c. 2002) that delivers free community services — youth, women's, education, health, and midwifery support — to Gypsy and Traveller communities in Cornwall and Devon via the Teyluva Centre, a Devon branch, and a mobile Playbus.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

St Day

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Travellerspace is a registered charity that operates the Teyluva Centre and other community facilities to deliver free support services to Gypsy and Traveller communities in Cornwall and Devon. Its core offerings include a women's drop-in group, youth activities, early years support, literacy and numeracy education, and a partnership midwifery service providing antenatal and postnatal care. Additional services include a mobile Play Bus for preschool children in Devon, advocacy, and third-party hate crime reporting.

Product overview

TravellerSpace is a community charity organization (not a technology product company) offering a portfolio of social and community services to Gypsy and Traveller communities in Cornwall and Devon. The core offering centers on the Teyluva Centre, a community hub providing early years support, education programs, health services (including an award-winning midwifery project), women's groups, and youth activities. Additional services include a Play Bus for Devon, outreach support, advocacy, and hate crime reporting. The organization operates as a single unified service model rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Teyluva Centre: Community centre in St Day, Cornwall offering support services, women's groups, youth activities, early years support, education, and health drop-in services for Gypsy and Traveller communities.

Products and services

• Teyluva Centre Community centre in St Day, Cornwall taken over by TravellerSpace in February 2018, hosting women's groups, youth activities, early years programs, education services, and health drop-in services for Gypsy and Traveller communities.
• Women's Group

Quantifiable outcome

• Gypsy and Traveller women experience four times more pregnancy loss than non-Traveller populations - the midwifery project addresses this disparity through bespoke care

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered developing and core.

• Devon Councils and PolicedevelopingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023TravellerSpace is seeking to develop partnerships across Devon with councils and police to better support Gypsy and Traveller communities and to be active members of forums working towards best practice agreed protocols.
• Kernow Maternity Voice PartnershipcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019A group with first-hand lived experience of maternity services that partnered with TravellerSpace and the midwifery service to address poor health outcomes for Gypsy and Traveller women during pregnancy, four times more likely to experience pregnancy loss.
• NHS Cornwall Midwifery Service / Teyluva MidwivescoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Partnership formed to create the Teyluva Midwifery Team providing bespoke antenatal and postnatal care for Gypsy and Traveller women at Wheal Jewel Traveller site and the Teyluva Centre, working towards Government Better Births Continuity of Carer initiative.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Brent Centre for Life: Local authority and partner organisations providing community services to Traveller sites in Brent. Adjacent ecosystem participant operating local-authority commissioned services for Traveller communities.
• NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board: Statutory partner commissioning maternity and community health services in Cornwall. Ecosystem participant as the NHS body partnered with TravellerSpace on the Teyluva Midwifery Team.

Regional players

• Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group: Derbyshire-based charity supporting Gypsy and Traveller communities. Comparable as a small regional peer organisation providing community advocacy and engagement in a different UK geography.
• Hertsmere Romanian, Gypsy and Traveller Forum: Hertfordshire-based forum supporting Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. Comparable as a small peer charity focused on community engagement, hate crime reporting and local advocacy in a defined UK region.

Direct peers

• Leeds GATE (Gypsy and Traveller Exchange): Leeds-based charity supporting Gypsy and Traveller communities in West Yorkshire. Directly comparable peer offering similar community hub, advocacy and health services in a defined UK region.
• The Traveller Movement: London-based national charity working to challenge discrimination and promote inclusion for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. Comparable as a peer organisation offering advocacy, policy work and community engagement to TravellerSpace's beneficiary base.
• Friends, Families and Travellers: Brighton-based national charity supporting Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities across the UK. Directly comparable as a peer charity delivering community services, policy advocacy and health programs to the same beneficiary population as TravellerSpace.
• Irish Traveller Movement: UK-wide charity supporting Irish Traveller community. Comparable as a peer organisation serving overlapping beneficiary communities with similar health, education and community engagement missions.

Emerging players

• Roma Support Group: London-based charity supporting Roma communities in the UK. Comparable as a peer organisation working with overlapping marginalised travelling communities on health, education and advocacy.
• Showmen's Charitable Trust: UK charity supporting the Showmen community with welfare, health and education programs. Comparable as a peer organisation serving an overlapping travelling community with similar health and welfare remits.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/travellerspace

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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