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Brinsley Animal Rescue Fundraiser – October 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

Please print and display the flier

Sumac 25th Anniversary Friday Party

Join us to celebrate 25 years at the Sumac Centre

A special evening featuring Singers * Poets * Music * Food * Activism * Workshops * Solidarity

Please print and display the flier

Bar / Food (£5 Suggested Donation) – Serving from 6pm.

  • Jimi Strange . 19.00 to 19.20
  • Lytisha Tunbridge  . 19.30 to 19.50
  • Cath Mackie . 20.00 to 20.20
  • Andrew Mznyox . 20.30 to 20.50
  • Noah Drillhead . 21.00 to 21.20
  • Bearded Tit . 21.30 to 22.00

£5 Suggested donation for Acts

Part of Sumac-25th-anniversary-festival-weekend

 

Please print and display the flier

Sumac 25th Anniversary Acoustic Garden Party

Join us to Celebrate 25 Years at the Sumac Centre

All Day : Campaign Stalls

11am : Sunday Brunch

From Noon : Forest Fields Social Club

12-2pm : Sparrows Nest Presentation

2pm – 7pm : Acoustic Garden Party:

Food by Veggies Catering Campaign and other Community Caterers

please note this is a provisional programme – it will change with timings and with errors

❤️ One Mic Stand Poets

2pm: Jesse Perrett (Poet)

2.30: Rachel Joy (Poet)

3pm: Spoken Goat (Poet)

❤️ Yard Sessions

3.30: Last Bus Home

4pm: Paul Carbuncle,

4.30: Jessi Eastfield,

5pm: Klezmer Tanz

5.45: Headliner to be announced

Please print and display the flier

We The Free Bake Sale

A charity bake sale to raise money for We The Free solidarity day (a huge animal rights event in Birmingham at the start of August).

To help predict numbers optionally sign up for the Bake Sale here.

Feel free to bake your own cakes/biscuits etc to bring along (this isn’t essential though) everything must be vegan and please let us know if they contain any allergies.

We will also potentially show a film for those who want to watch it or people can just chat to others if they wish.

Sunday 12th July at Sumac Centre at 4.30pm.

 

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

Join us on FRIDAY 24th July at the Sumac Centre for an evening of music, poetry, vegan food and community spirit.

Featuring poets: Amer Yaks, Emma Sullivan, Panya Bojoko and Zohra

Featuring musicians: Jacob Holmes, Campfie Goblins, Eleanor Gail, and Dave Fairey

This People’s Kitchen meal for the Big Ride for Palestine supports the Nottingham to Sheffield Bike Ride for Palestine leaving  on the next day.

Raising funds for

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

There will be music and poetry, vegan food, raffle and the Forest Fields Social Club Bar.

During Forest Fields Social Club events under 18s must be accompanied by an adult who remains responsible for them whilst on Sumac premises.

Everyone is welcome to this fundraiser for Big Ride For Palestine and Refugee Forum.

£5 for entry  . £5 for food . Plus raffle.

To support the event and help give an idea of numbers or simply donate to the fundraiser, at https://NightBeforeBigRIde.eventbrite.co.uk

Note that the Fundraiser event, organised in conjunction with the Sumac Centre, is on Friday 24th July, in advance of the Bike Ride leaving the next day.

Rift Valley Dates and Olive Oil

Veggies Catering Campaign now stocks products brought direct from Palestinian farmers by Rift Valley.

Come prepared to shop for solidarity!

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

Sparrows Nest Banner

Sparrows Nest Presentation for Sumac / Rainbow Archive

NOTE event moved due to the unprecedented scale and depth of the work in processing Sumac’s Rainbow archives. Now scheduled as part of the Sumac Centre’s 25th Anniversary Festival.

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.

Support this project

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

Join us at this event at Sumac Centre.

  1. Exhibition of highlights from the archive
  2. Quiz: 40+ years of radical history
  3. Duplicates from the archive freely available.

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

For details of the 1500 #RainbowArchive items on the public catalogue, (as at July’26), 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.

sparrows

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/

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!

Gladstonebury Festival – Sumac 25th Anniversary Weekend

Sumac Centre is 25 this year.

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

*25th, 26th, 27th September*

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

Please print and display the flier

Friday 25th kicks off with an evening of Poets and Performers.

Saturday 26th features the Big Gig in the evening, with Drivelheads, The Sporadics and anarchistwood.

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

Sunday also features a presentation by Sparrows Nest Library of their archivevof over 2000 items from the Rainbow Centre, in the prehistory of the Sumac Centre.

Fully detailed (draft) program further below.

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

BACK Events for Monday February 6th, 2023 – Sumac CentreRainbow 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.

 

Reserve this weekend for a series of events loosely based on the template of the Rainbow Centre 40th Anniversary Festival in 2024.

 

Gladstonebury

Sumac Centre Community Festival

Celebrating 25 years of Sumac.

Fri 25th / Sat 26th / Sun 27th of September 2026

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Music * Food * Activism * Workshops * Solidarity

Food by Veggies and Notts Dinning Coop

Friday Night 25th Sept indoors + Vegan Bar

Doors open 6pm

Vegan Food £5 Suggested Donation (Serving 18.30hrs)

Acts £5 Suggested donation

Poets and performers.

Jimi Strange 19.00 to 19.20 (Rad Folk)

Lytisha Tunbridge 19.30 to 19.50 (Poet)

Cath Mackie 20.00 to 20.20 (Spikey Folk)

Andrew Mznyox 20.30 to 20.50 (Poet)

Noah Drillhead 21.00 to 21.20 (Punk Solo)

Bearded Tit 21.30 to 22.00 (Rad Poet)

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Saturday Night 26th Sept indoors + Vegan Bar

Ticketed £12 Through Fixr 18+/no dogs

Doors open 17.30

Vegan Food Suggested Donation £5

(Serving 18.00hrs)

Drivelheads 19.00 to 19.40 Notts (Local Rebel Rousers)

The Sporadics 20.00 to 21.00 Bournemouth (Sub punk/festy music)

anarchistwood 21.30 to 22.30 London (Theatrical Pr@nk rock)

(DReSS up FeRal optional)

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Sunday Day 27th Sept Garden Party/Bar

Family friendly/Behaved dogs on lead

Event free/Donations welcome

Vegan Brunch 11am till 2pm (£5)

11 am onwards campaign stalls

12am till 2pm The Sparrows Nest “The Sumac Archive Project”

Talks/Quiz/Bookstall/Zine making

2pm till 7pm (Veggies Catering)

One Mic Stand (Poets)

Jesse Perrett (Poet) 14.00 to 14.20

Rachel Joy (Poet) 14.30 to 14.50

Spoken Goat (Poet) 15.00 to 15.20

Yard Sessions/Acoustic acts

Pixie Styx (Assorted gubbins, D.I.Y tunes)15.30 to 16.00

Blossom (Folk Singer) 16.10 to 16.40

Paul Carbuncle (Punchy political PuNk) 16.50 to 17.20

Jessi Eastfield (Eastfield Rail PuNk) 17.30 to 18.00

Klezmer Tanz (Traditional roots) 18.10 to 19.00

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