What is being done to keep alive Maltese traditions: festas, food, language?
1.1 Ever since the Maltese travelled to the U.K. and brought up their families, there have been various types of religious and social events organised for the Maltese Community in areas where small settlements of Maltese resided. 1.2 The aims of these events would always be towards highlighting memories of Maltese cultural episodes brought along from Malta and made alive among the members of the immigrant community, even if this would be organised in a limited way and on a very small scale. 1.3 The Maltese festas, normally held back home on a parish basis, are not possible to be organised on the same scales as in Malta. In particular, to date it has never been possible to hold a Malta-type festa in an open air environment. This is due to a lack of co-ordinated efforts within the community and because of the required local authority and police permissions to enable restrictions of the usual busy traffic in public roads and grounds to be rescinded. 1.4 Until the present time, any of thes
