Greg Yates on behalf of the Clearwater Gypsies visited Madrid in February 2007 with members of Southampton City council, who funded this visit as part of their GRUNDTVIG 2006-2007 project.

Left: photo of Greg with Mario Martinez in Madrid making personal contacts as well as forging links with Fundación Secretariado Gitano. The Spanish example of supporting Gypsies through retraining to provide new skills for the Gypsy population in a modern work environment could be a model for the new Europe.

Greg and his family travelled for many years in France and has many French Gypsy contacts within the Monuché and Sinti. In southern France he has contacts with A.N.G.V.C. This centers around the festival of the Black Gypsy (Sara-la-Kali) in May each year at Saintes Maries de la Mer. In 2008 Greg was involved in the making of a film for the East Sussex Travellers Education Service which has now been released called "Coming and Going".

In the last 18 months Clearwater Gypsies have been receiving enquiries from eastern European Roma and Zingarni and are now forging links in Russia where one of the Barristers, Marc Willers ( co-author of Gypsy and Traveller Law) that Clearwater Gypsies use has been out to Russia to visit and provide diversity training on human rights to the authorities there.