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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

Fundraiser for Big Ride for Palestine

People’s Kitchen meal

Join us on FRIDAY 24th July at the Sumac Centre to support the Nottingham to Sheffield Bike Ride for Palestine leaving the next day.

Raising funds for

* MECA https://www.mecaforpeace.org/
* Gaza Sunbirds https://gazasunbirds.org/

Brinsley Animal Rescue Fundraiser – 18 July 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

Postponed: Sparrows Nest fundraiser for Sumac / Rainbow Archive

NOTE event is POSTPONED due to the unprecedented scale and depth of the work in processing Sumac’s Rainbow archives.

Sumac Centre Library covers a range of topics from anarchism, animal rights, political and social theory, race, gender and class, environment and ecology, activism, to journalism and history and more.

Sparrows Nest Banner

The Sparrows Nest have adopted our huge wealth of pre-digital campaign resources from the 1980s & 90s. They will be storing our archives safely. Once catalogued many items will publically available and all will be maintained in perpetuity.

Support this project

We need to raise £400 for the next part of our archiving work.

Join us at this fundraising event at Sumac Centre when it is rescheduled, probably in September.

Exhibition of highlights from the archive
Quiz: 40+ years of radical history
Duplicates from the archive freely available
People’s Kitchen Meal
Forest Fields Social Club Bar

If you can, please DONATE via https://sumac.org.uk/get-involved/donate/

For the Public Catalogue search for “Rainbow Centre” and Rainbow archives detailed listing.

Rainbow Listings 1986 (Sparrows Nest Archive)

For the Public Catalogue search for “Rainbow Centre” and Rainbow archives detailed listing.

More information on the Sumac Library, including it’s Rainbow Centre pre-history, may be seen at https://sumac.org.uk/get-involved/library-bookshop/

Total Liberation Gathering 2026

We are pleased to announce that we are hosting the second Total Liberation Gathering on 26th-28th June at the Sumac Centre in Nottingham.

Total Liberation Gathering Shedule

The event is coordinated by the Total Liberation Collective (info on Instagram).

The aim is for animal liberationists to connect with other struggles and strengthen solidarity between movements. We want to encourage collaboration, sharing resources and creativity.

This will be an opportunity for us to reimagine how the world could be. We will embody anti-hierarchy, active participation and collective care.

Our shared vision is to be as inclusive as possible, with anti racism, anti ableism and anti-speciesism at the heart of the project.

Here’s a form to register interest, needs & offers for this year, to help create a liberating educational space.

https://app.formbricks.com/s/eia4sutkztj8m6365551x812

The catering will be provided by Veggies Catering Campaign, the UK’s longest established 100% vegan campaign caterers.

HacktionLab Autumn 2026

HacktionLab will have their next gathering at the Sumac Centre on Friday 2nd October to Sunday 4th October, with arrivals from 5pm Thursday 1st.

HacktionLab is UK tech-activist run project that aims to create regular convergence spaces where activists interested and/or working in the areas of alternative media, renewable energy, on-line video distribution, free software or any other form of activism that utilises technology can get together and plan how to better harness the technology (or not) to support grass roots social movements.

Activities, facilities, meals, costs etc will be similar to the Autumn 2025 Hacktionlab at the same venue, including Friday’s Sumac Open Mic a jam-style performance space.

Are you interested in coming and getting involved? Get in touch with HacktionLab by joining and e-mailing them at hl2026@hacktionlab.org or joining their mailing list.

(See also entry on Veggies Diary)

Sumac 25th Anniversary Festival Weekend

Sumac Centre is 25 this year.

We relocated the Rainbow Centre, established in 1984, to the Sumac Centre in June 2001.

💥 25th, 26th, 27th September

Three days of peace, love and music at the Sumac Centre

Friday 25th probably a *LGBTQ+ Night +Bar

Saturday 26th probably a whole day of activities including the Big Gig in the evening

Sunday 27th probably an Acoustic Community Garden Party with Sunday Brunch, campaign stalls,. many local acts film screenings, Veggies Burger Bar, Forest Fields Social Club.

From Ned Ludd’s News, published from the Rainbow Centre in 2002, archived at Sparrows Nest Library (pdf)

Work on the new independent community, resource and centre at 245 Gladstone Street nears completion. Formerly the

Rainbow Centre, the name ‘The Sumac Centre’ has now been adopted after a shrub in the gardens.

The former Sitch Ukranian Social Club was purchased by the Rainbow Centre collective in June 2001. Major reconstruction work was undertaken by NECTA (Nottingham Environmental Construction Training for All) and other local trades people. Since then volunteers from the local community have worked on, replacing floors, walls, ceilings, doors, windows, stairs, toilets, electrics and plumbing!

Finally the end is in sight. The newly plastered walls and refurbished toilets are being‘ painted, the community cafe is being built and the furniture fireproofed. Sufficient facilities are now completed for the centre to have hosted or booked meetings for local residents groups, animal rights conferences, training days, environmental/roads gatherings and more.

With a final push it is hoped that the new centre will be ready to open during June, after which work will continue for the planned Social Club.

With completion of this first phase so close supporters are urged to get involved, both with the final works, which continue on a daily basis, and with planning the activities and running the centre once opened.

As there has been so much more work to be done than expected, the opening date, and therefore opportunity to earn income, has been deferred several times. However the mortgage and other bills wait for no one, so the gap in funding continues to grow. We have been very encouraged by
the practical support, grants and donations received, but for long‘ term security we are very keen to invite investment by way of loans, with interest offered from 0% to 5%, repayable over I, 5 or I0 years.

If all goes to plan the official opening date is the 22″“ June.