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Skills Exchange Social, People’s Kitchen and Fundraiser

Learn about timebanking and meet other timebankers. Featuring live music, poetry, food, bar, quiz and tombola. Everyone is welcome.
We welcome raffle prizes, please ask family and friends and local businesses for any new or as new items that are suitable.  Books, plants, ornaments, cosmetics etc. not tested on animals, drinks, games, toys and of course scented candles and wax melts.
We have a £100 shortfall in the money needed to pay for our insurance in June.
You can donate at the Social on June 6th or by BACS:
Lloyds Bank
Skills-Exchange-Nottingham
Sort Code: 30-90-89
Account Number: 35394768

Vegan bake sale for educational workshops and elephant sanctuary Thailand

Join us at The Sumac Centre for a vegan bake sale to raise funds for Abbie’s trip to Thailand.
Abbie will be going to Thailand to do educational sessions with children and volunteer at an elephant rescue
The main fundraiser is here with only £600 to hit the target!! https://futuresensefoundation.enthuse.com/pf/abbie-stocker
This is happening alongside Veggies £5 Sunday Brunch, you won’t find a cheaper, tastier or more ethical brunch in Nottingham… maybe the whole UK? 🤔
So come along to the Sumac for brunch and a range of vegan and gluten free cakes to help her on her way!

Music Meets Solidarity – Fundraiser for Al Harah Theatre and Notts Refugee Forum

Join us for an afternoon where music meets solidarity

We’re coming together to raise vital funds for Al Harah Theatre and Notts Refugee Forum.

Venue: Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, New Basford, NG7 6HX

Date: Saturday 4th April

Time: 4pm

Tickets: £7.60 . Get your tickets here.

Featuring: Crazy Able, Abid Baig, Ace Ambrose & Ghost Riders. With a guest appearance via video link by a member of Al Harah Theatre group.

Food and drinks available to buy at the event.

Private event (Dolls 2nd/4th Mondays)

The Dolls Dining Co-op (DDC) is intended to provide a free vegan food for transfeminine people.

DDC is on every Second and Forth Monday at 7-9pm

 

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Brinsley Animal Rescue Fundraiser – 18 April 2026

Another regular ‘Peoples Kitchen’ fundraiser for Brinsley Animal Rescue, at the Sumac Centre.

The animals suffering does not end, which means we do not stop our community fundraising meals

So come along, eat homemade delicious vegan food for a fiver, homemade cake for an additional cost.
Join in with the raffle, drink vegan drinks from the bar, socialise with your tribe, bring games too if you like. It’s your night, be creative, bring raffle prizes, and come and have fun and laughter, let’s keep the humor flowing….

All the proceeds are donated to Brinsley Animal Rescue – saving the animals from despair and suffering, we hear them, we see them, we care.

So come along, eat cheap food, laughter at cheap jokes, and have a cheap beer !!

Join us at 7pm

Wednesday Pop-up Cafe and Cool Space

Pop-up Cafe : every Wednesday

Join us at Sumac Centre cool space for hot drinks, free wifi and hot meal.

There is often a meal at about 1pm for a suggested £3 donation, or what you can afford.

Also community food hub for wholefoods, zero waste supplies & free food redistribution, radical library and book stall, #RainbowCentre Archives, games library & toy box, informal meeting space with zoom & #SumacScreenRoom facilities.

Every Wednesday 11am – 4pm at Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham NG7 6HX . Direction & contact.

Community Food Hub

We redistribute fresh foods from Foodprint and Sanatan Food Bank, saving their surplus veg from going straight to landfill.

Pop in during the regular Sumac Sunday Brunch or Wednesday pop-up cafe & warm hub, or at other times on our events diary.

SUMAC FOOD REDISTRIBUTION

FREE – PLEASE TAKE WHAT YOU CAN USE OR SHARE

  • Food is a right, not a privilege.
  • Food poverty, the inability to afford, or to have access to, food to make up a healthy diet, affects 8-9% of the UK population. [Ref: Sustain]
  • Food loss and waste accounts for 8-10% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions. [Ref: United Nations UNFCCC]
  • The Sumac Community can play a valuable role in tackling food waste.

Surplus foods are shared with Sumac by Sanatan Food Bank and FoodPrint. As well as being good for the Sumac Community, we provide a valued service to them by helping reduce their waste, which would otherwise go to landfill or incineration.

This, together with an option of sharing our surplus with Sherwood Exchange and local animal rescues, gives SIX opportunities for these foods to be consumed!

It is the obsession with perfection by the food industry and supermarkets that is driving the food waste crisis.

The planet benefits by surpluses being diverted from landfill, even if it ultimately ends up making compost for the Sumac Garden.

food.gov.uk recommends a visual check or the ‘smell test’ to assess the quality of fruit and veg, or packaged foods with a ‘best before‘ date. Packaged foods should not be given or taken if past its ‘use-by‘ date. Our volunteers make every effort to check that everything is edible, vegan and not subject to an ethical boycott. Please draw any inappropriate goods to our attention.

We need more help.

If you value this initiative, please ask how you can support our work.

For more information see the Community Food Hub post by Veggies.
You could also read or share the latest version of the Sumac Food Redistribution flier.

 

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