Planning meetings continue for Nottingham Green Festival, a sustainable-themed festival, organised by a volunteer cooperative planning group.
The Green Festival will be held at Nottingham Arboretum on Sunday 13th September 2026 and your support is most welcome.
Join us at the Sumac Centre, or get in touch for details to join the online via zoom.
Note that times may change between Winter & Summer meetings – see future meeting dates … (Also event listing on Veggies Diary)
Interested in Cooperatives?
Interested in working for radical positive social change?
Radical Routes is a network of radical housing co-ops, workers co-ops and social centres. Their members are committed to working for positive social change.
Social Centres, such as Sumac Centre, have a strong past history of mutual support with Radical Routes but, for reasons to be explored on Friday, all have fallen aside. Sumac Centre is keen to rejoin Radical Routes to strengthen this bond, and maybe build a bridge with the Social Centres Network.
This presentation by them to us may be followed by a presentation by us to them at the 15-17th May Radical Routes Gathering, with Sumac Centre potentially joining in August.
If this interests you, join us at Sumac on Friday 27th March . Lunch at 1pm, presentation from 1.30pm.
Sherwood Rise Residents Association (SRRA)
Join us at Sumac Centre at 7.30pm, to meet new residents, discuss priorities and develop the aims of Sherwood Rise Ressers. We love to organise community events, but we need more folk to get involved.
This is an open meeting to any one who lives in Forest Fields, New Basford, Carrington and surrounding areas.
The purpose of the Residents Association is to also offer people the space to share community concerns, build community relationships and offer informal friendship as people who live in the same neighbourhoods.
Nottingham Animal Rights holds regular planning meetings. These meetings are for people who are involved or interested in animal rights activism.
We recognize that turning up to a meeting of complete strangers can be daunting, but the atmosphere at NottmAR meetings is always very informal, and by all means bring a couple of friends with you if it makes you feel more confident, everyone is welcome!
The planning meetings are where you can obtain support from like minded people for campaigns against all forms of animal cruelty.
There is no hierarchy, our broad scope is a consequence of a broad demographic of proactive members. Whether your interest is in countering the fur trade, factory farming, vivisection, blood sports or (most commonly) all animal cruelty, you will find campaigning opportunities as part of both local and national initiatives.
All our activities are 100% legal and non-violent, we do public protests and other direct action, we do information stalls, we do free food give-aways, we do sanctuary work, and in fact anything else we can think of!
You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter.
See also NAR on the Animal Rights Calendar
Planning meetings continue for Nottingham Green Festival, a sustainable-themed festival, organised by a volunteer cooperative planning group.
The Green Festival wil be held at Nottingham Arboretum on Sunday 13th September 2026 and your support is most welcome.
Join us at the Sumac Centre, or get in touch for details to join the online via zoom.
Note that times may change between Winter & Summer meetings – see future meeting dates … (Also event listing on Veggies Diary)
Now a long time Nottingham resident and social activist, Alan Lodge, ‘Tash’ comes from a free festival and traveller background. Living in old buses, trucks and caravans, he drove around the country on ‘the circuit’ with his family and friends.
Since the late 1970’s he has been photographing events and the people around him, with One Eye on the Road and always another on the response of the police.
Join us at Sumac Centre on the early evening of Saturday 7th June for a display of Tash’s photos, and a discussion with Tash about free festivals and wider issues of Policing and Protest.
This will no doubt include his activism in Nottingham from Critical Mass to Heckler & Koch, from Nottm Indymedia to the Green Festival.
There will be snacks from Veggies and a social at Sumac’s Forest Fields Social Club bar afterwards.
40 years ago, Molesworth peace camp, part of a campaign organised from Nottingham Rainbow Centre, was evicted by thousands of police and army, in one of the most expensive evictions in British history. Many of those evicted formed a ‘Peace Convoy’.
On 1st June 1985 Tash documented the prearranged police ambush of the Peace Convoy, travelling though Wiltshire for the annual Fee Festival at Stonehenge. This has been been dubbed the Battle of the Beanfield.
Five Leaves Bookshop will also be holding an illustrated talk with Alan Lodge Tash at 4.45 on Sunday 1st June.
Whilst the Sumac Centre event will travel with Tash from the 1970’s to today, the Five Leaves event focuses his lens on the 40th Anniviversary of the Battle of the Beanfield.
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Stonehenge ‘85.
Battle of the Bean Field.
A year after crushing the miners, Thatcher turned her eye to the burgeoning counter-culture, mobilising 1300 police officers in an attempt to halt the counter-cultures most significant annual event- the Stonehenge Free festival. pic.twitter.com/mXNX9wMZGY
— Seth Dresden Wheeler (@sethnotes) June 21, 2023
with stills photography by Alan Lodge ‘Tash’.
Planning meetings continue for Nottingham Green Festival, a sustainable-themed festival, organised by a volunteer cooperative planning group.
The Green Festival wil be held at Nottingham Arboretum on Sunday 8th September 2024 and your support is most welcome.
Join us at the Sumac Centre, or get in touch for details to join the online via zoom.
Note that times may change between Winter & Summer meetings – see future meeting dates … (Also event listing on Veggies Diary)
Planning meetings continue for Nottingham Green Festival, a sustainable-themed festival, organised by a volunteer cooperative planning group.
The Green Festival wil be held at Nottingham Arboretum on Sunday 14th September 2025 and your support is most welcome.
Join us at the Sumac Centre, or get in touch for details to join the online via zoom.
Note that times may change between Winter & Summer meetings – see future meeting dates … (Also event listing on Veggies Diary)
Planning meetings continue for Nottingham Green Festival, a sustainable-themed festival, organised by a volunteer cooperative planning group.
The Green Festival wil be held at Nottingham Arboretum on Sunday 8th September 2024 and your support is most welcome.
Join us at the Sumac Centre, or get in touch for details to join the online via zoom.
Note that times may change between Winter & Summer meetings – see future meeting dates … (Also event listing on Veggies Diary)
Planning meetings continue for Nottingham Green Festival, a sustainable-themed festival, organised by a volunteer cooperative planning group.
The Green Festival was held at Nottingham Arboretum on Sunday 8th September 2024 and your support was most welcome.
Join us at the Sumac Centre, or get in touch for details to join the online via zoom.
Note that times may change between Winter & Summer meetings – see future meeting dates … (Also event listing on Veggies Diary)
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