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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.

 

Visioning the Green Festival

We are grateful for the continued support shown to the Green Festival. Like you, we are looking forward to the next event on Sunday 13th September 2026. The event has been running for over 30 years and has seen many changes and improvements in recent years.

The Festival continues to be supported by a wide range of local talented performers, musicians, family entertainers, speakers and educators.

The event now extends onto the grass area for the Family Zone and the Speakers Forum aka Knowledge Garden is now well established.

Many more stalls are now accommodated, beyond Lime Tree Avenue, into the Family Zone, around to Feargus O’Connor Walk and the Chinese Bells into the Rose Garden. We hope that we have an appropriate mix of small green businesses, food providers, campaigns and charities, all of whom are important to the Nottingham Green Festival.

This year we invited the Cycling Zone to expand into the Arboretum Gardens opposite the Bandstand, to include the pedal-powered Mammoth Cinema.

Some things haven’t really taken off, such as a second acoustic or busking area.

We also have vision to extend through the tunnel to maximise use of the Arboretum site, right through to the Mansfield Road entrance.

We need your visions too.

You are invited to join us on Sunday 7th December at 2pm at the Sumac Centre.

You are welcome to arrive sooner to enjoy the famous Sumac Sunday Brunch (11am to 2pm) and the Forest Fields Social Club aka Sumac Bar will be open through to 4pm. Veggies Catering Campaign will provide their ever popular ‘Samosas for Social Change’, cakes, teas & coffee and soft drinks.

We hope to reflect on some of the topics mentioned above and other ideas that you might suggest by email to info@NottmGreenFest.org.uk

You are welcome to send feedback in advance of the meeting to help set the agenda for discussions. If you cannot attend on Sunday 7th your emailed comments are also most welcome.

NottmGreenFest.org.uk . @NottmGreenFest on Bluesky . Mastodon . Facebook . Instagram (and Twitter)

MAP (Medical Aid for Palestine) Fundraiser

MEDICAL AID FOR PALESTINIANS

With Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum

FUNDRAISER

Saturday December 13th 5pm – 10pm

Join us for:

Music & Poetry

Food & Raffle

Grab ya tickets here. 👇🧶

Entry: £6 (+fees)

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/map-medical-aid-for-palestine-fundraiser-tickets-1972847213122

Organized in collaboration with Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone St, Forest Fields, NG7 6HX

FEATURING LOCAL ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS:-

Abid Baig musician

Adeeb Shaheen – author

Amer Yaks poetry & pop-up stall

Andrew Mzynox poet

Blossom musician

Cilente – poet

Dave Collins – musician

Eleanor Turner musician

Emma poet

Ian Clegg & Jack Scrimshaw musicians

Jacob Holmes – musician

Jayda – musician

poet

Joshua musician

Julian Giulio Nhorteo Batedo musician

Lyra May poet

Margaret Wilson – singer

Panya Banjoko poet

Pixie Styx musician

Zohra poet

Print and display the poster / flier

Refugee Forum poster

Private event (Dolls 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

Food for a Future – Vegan Christmas Cookery Demonstration

Join Food For a Future and learn some epic vegan Christmas recipes!

Are you…
Not vegan, but hosting a vegan friend or family member for Christmas?
Vegan but not a confident cook?
Vegan or not, maybe you fancy trying something different this year?
We’ve got you covered! With a mix of tasty starters, mains, sides and desserts demonstrated by FFAF volunteers which you’ll get to taste for yourselves!

The event is free entry but donations to FFAF very welcome. There will also be a raffle with vegan friendly prizes to help fund raise for our future events so we can continue to show people how easy and tasty vegan food can be while doing vegan outreach.

Followed by social at the Forest Fields Social Club aka Sumac Bar from about 7pm.

Brinsley Animal Rescue Fundraiser – January 24th 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 7.30pm

Brinsley Animal Rescue Fundraiser – October 9th 2025

Just a reminder that it’s our regular ‘Peoples Kitchen’ at the Sumac Centre.

We’ll be cooking up a hearty ‘pie n mash’ with lashings of onion gravy. There will also be cakes available and a crumble, what’s not to love?

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 7.30pm

Skills Exchange Nottingham Social and Meal

Skills Exchange Nottingham

♫ You are cordially invited to our social. Learn about time banking.

All welcome.

7pm, Friday 26th Sept

Featuring live music from Hummingbirds and Dave Fairey, also Poetry, Quiz and Raffle.

Vegan meal & cake for a donation.

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstaone Street, NG7 6HX

tol2.timebanking.org/skillsexchange

Skills ExchangeNG@gmail.com

You can find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nottinghamskillsexchange/

Share details on Mastodon (social.coop) https://social.coop/@Veggies/115268142316858735

 

Brinsley Animal Rescue Fundraiser – August 2nd 2025

We re back for another night of community action for the animals. 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 7.30pm

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