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.
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.
Following an epic scale and depth of the work in processing Sumac’s Rainbow archives this preview is scheduled as part of the Sumac Centre’s 25th Anniversary Festival.
Join us at this event at Sumac Centre.
- Exhibition of highlights from the archive
- Quiz: 40+ years of radical history
- Duplicates from the archive freely available.
Rainbow Listings 1986 (Sparrows Nest Archive)
For the Public Catalogue search for “Rainbow Centre” and Rainbow archives detailed listing.
We need to raise over £400 for the initial costs of materiels to preserve the archive and more for ongoing storage costs.
If you can, please DONATE via https://sumac.org.uk/get-involved/donate/
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/
The Sumac Centre has its own small library, which people are free to browse when the Centre is open.
The 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.
We also welcome offers of help in helping to keep the Library (& book stall) organised.
Sumac also hosts the Veggies Book Stall, available whenever the Centre is open. Their are books and journals for reference and for sale covering green, human rights, animal issues, anti-war, co-operation and social justice. Some are available via Veggies online store.
We have started a catalogue of books in the library and another of journals and other archives.
We are working with the Sparrows Nest Library. They are adopting our huge wealth of pre-digital campaign resources from the 1980s & 90s. They hope to make our archives publically available, or at least catalogued.
For the Public Catalogue search for “Rainbow Centre” and Rainbow archives detailed listing.
See also “Raiubow Centre” at the Internet Archive
Support this project
We need to raise £400 for the next part of our archiving work. If you can help with a small donation please DONATE via https://sumac.org.uk/get-involved/donate/
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/
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 are posted at the Hacktionlab Autumn 2026 webpages. Are you interested in coming and getting involved, check there. Or get in touch with HacktionLab by at hl2026@hacktionlab.org or join their mailing list.
(See also entry on Veggies Diary)
Nottingham Animal Coalition is a new animal advocacy group aiming to bring together the various animal rights groups in Nottingham.
The next NAC meeting is on Monday 20th April . 7pm – 9PM at the Sumac Centre
An opportunity to get active for animals, discover existing campaigns, or start your own!
If you have an unfulfilled interest in animal rights you are welcome to attend the meeting, even if not (yet) associated with a specific group.
- This event may feature representatives from:
Each rep. will give a short speech about their group and the type of activism they do, with time for some questions. After this, there will be an open discussion about different activism tactics and what types of activism people feel is missing. Finally, there will be an opportunity for activists from different groups to socialise with each other.
RSVP at the Facebook event so we can get an idea of numbers. 🙇
Looking forward to seeing you all there. 🫂
See also events on Veggies Animal Rights Calendar.
The Sumac Centre has its own small library, which people are free to browse when the Centre is open.
The 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.
We also welcome offers of help in helping to keep the Library (& book stall) organised.
Sumac also hosts the Veggies Book Stall, available whenever the Centre is open. Their are books and journals for reference and for sale covering green, human rights, animal issues, anti-war, co-operation and social justice. Some are available via Veggies online store.
We have started a catalogue of books in the library and another of journals and other archives.
We are working with the Sparrows Nest Library. They are making available our huge wealth of pre-digital campaign resources from the 1980s & 90s. As at June 2026 they had processed over 1500 items!
For the Public Catalogue search for “Rainbow Centre” and Rainbow archives detailed listing.
See also “Rainbow Centre” at the Internet Archive
Support this project
We need to raise £400 for the next part of our archiving work. If you can help with a small donation please DONATE via https://sumac.org.uk/get-involved/donate/
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/
A Sumac Centre fundraiser coming up…
Vegan food 🌱
3 great punk acts 🎸🧷
A great venue 🏡🎵
Saturday 9th May at the Sumac Centre is the place to be. All for £5 OTD.
Formerly the Rainbow Centre, the name ‘The Sumac Centre’ has now been adopted after a shrub in the gardens.
