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May11Fri
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Cancel the Cruel Circus : Leicester6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The great british circus cancelled as site is waterlogged. Alternate field is a mudbath. If conditions are too atrocious for the public, how are the animals suffering? They may attempt to open later at Leicester Road, Glen Parva on the A426, with a protest planned from 6pm and at other times – see entry on the current AR Calendar.
This circus have many animals including lions, zebras, camels, llamas, horses, ponies, goats and reindeer, and now 3 elephants and a white tiger. Animals in circuses lead a pathetic, miserable existence, performing unnatural, demeaning tricks in the ring and tied up or caged between performances. Their home is nothing more than a mobile prison.
To support protests call 07773 912535 or 07854 735 026 or c/o the AR Calendar. Take care – a circus worker assaulted a protester in Nottingham in 2010.
Nottingham campaign against Great British Circus (including artwork for placards) at: http://www.veggies.org.uk/nar/circus.htm
Captive Animals Protection Society -:- Animal Defenders
Keep track of the Great British Circus at the circus tour archive.
6:00 pmCancel the Cruel Circus : Leicester
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May12Sat
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Cancel the Cruel Circus : Leicester6:00 pm – 7:00 pmThe great british circus cancelled as site is waterlogged. Alternate field is a mudbath. If conditions are too atrocious for the public, how are the animals suffering?
They may attempt to open later at Leicester Road, Glen Parva on the A426, with a protest planned from 6pm and at other times – see entry on the current AR Calendar.
This circus have many animals including lions, zebras, camels, llamas, horses, ponies, goats and reindeer, and now 3 elephants and a white tiger. Animals in circuses lead a pathetic, miserable existence, performing unnatural, demeaning tricks in the ring and tied up or caged between performances. Their home is nothing more than a mobile prison.
To support protests call 07773 912535 or 07854 735 026 or c/o the AR Calendar. Take care – a circus worker assaulted a protester in Nottingham in 2010.
Nottingham campaign against Great British Circus (including artwork for placards) at: http://www.veggies.org.uk/nar/circus.htm
Captive Animals Protection Society -:- Animal Defenders
Keep track of the Great British Circus at the circus tour archive.
6:00 pmCancel the Cruel Circus : Leicester
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May13Sun
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Cancel the Cruel Circus : Leicester6:00 pm – 7:00 pmThe great british circus cancelled as site is waterlogged. Alternate field is a mudbath. If conditions are too atrocious for the public, how are the animals suffering?
They may attempt to open later at Leicester Road, Glen Parva on the A426, with a protest planned from 6pm and at other times – see entry on the current AR Calendar.
This circus have many animals including lions, zebras, camels, llamas, horses, ponies, goats and reindeer, and now 3 elephants and a white tiger. Animals in circuses lead a pathetic, miserable existence, performing unnatural, demeaning tricks in the ring and tied up or caged between performances. Their home is nothing more than a mobile prison.
To support protests call 07773 912535 or 07854 735 026 or c/o the AR Calendar. Take care – a circus worker assaulted a protester in Nottingham in 2010.
Nottingham campaign against Great British Circus (including artwork for placards) at: http://www.veggies.org.uk/nar/circus.htm
Captive Animals Protection Society -:- Animal Defenders
Keep track of the Great British Circus at the circus tour archive.
6:00 pmCancel the Cruel Circus : Leicester
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May17Thu
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Autonomous Kids Project2:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Autonomous Nottingham presents six weeks of street play in Forest Fields.One of the key principals to Autonomous Nottingham is engagement with it’s community, another is an effort to show solidarity to those who are marginalised by the state and capitalism. We also believe in unlearning the spirit crushing atomization and individualization of everyday life, and the relearning of loving, sharing and coming together within shared spaces.
It’s with these ideas in mind that some of us have decided to once more take to the streets to play with the local kids. We will be running six play sessions to start with, on Thursdays between 4:30 and 6:30. And perhaps we’ll do some more after that.
We invite people to come and join us on Cedar Road – if you’ve got kids bring them, if you just want to play then bring yourself.
2:30 pmAutonomous Kids Project
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May19Sat
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Meat Free in Manchester11:00 am – 4:00 pm
To celebrate the start of National Vegetarian Week 2012, the Vegetarian Society is hosting Meat free in Manchester, a free public event in Albert Square, Manchester, on Saturday 19 May.
Meat Free in Manchester 2011 was a great success and we’re looking forward to making this year’s event bigger, better and even more fun.
Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy the cookery demonstrations, interactive fun, entertainment and amazing food, so please tell your friends and family and spread the word on Twitter and Facebook – we’d love to see you there.
Pictures from 2011 event 
11:00 amMeat Free in Manchester -
Nottm Sabs Fissh & Chip Supper7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Vegan Fish and Chips fundraiser for Nottingham Hunt Sabs.
In the evening at the Sumac Centre.
For further details contact us via the Nottingham Hunt Sabs website.
7:00 pmNottm Sabs Fissh & Chip Supper -
People’s Kitchen7:00 pm – 7:00 pm
A delightful dish is cooked and served at the Sumac Cafe by a different volunteer team each Saturday.Dinner served from 7pm and you can PAY WHAT YOU WANT!
People’s Kitchen is completely run by volunteers. Help welcome from 6.30pm. Sumac Cafe Collective: To continue the success of Peoples’ Kitchen and to make decisions about it collectively come along on Friday 4th May at 6.30pm.
Example menus, recipes, pictures, reviews and other info may be found on the Veggies Diary Listing.
Roll up, roll up to volunteer for future Saturdays. From chopping veg through to heading up the menu, there are hands-on opportunities at every level for anyone wishing to find out more about vegan cookery. ‘Chefs’, cookery assistants, serfs and washers-up welcome – guidance given! Contact sumaccafe-at-riseup.net
7:00 pmPeople’s Kitchen
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May21Mon
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Forest Fields Food Gardening Club5:00 pm – 5:00 pm
The Forest Fields Food Gardening Club is in session again, currently on Mondays from 5pm at Sumac’s garden, which is organic and laid out to show the best use of a small space. It is full of ideas you could use in your own garden.We can share seedings and materials. Local food production is an important part of a low carbon society.
Any time you can spare to help build this community resource is greatly appreciated. Your chance to get involved with exciting urban food project! We want to encourage, support and learn about food growing in Forest Fields. Drop in and help with the Sumac garden or discuss your growing needs.
See “Sumac Garden Project” photo report at Notts Indymedia.
The Sumac Garden has been much improved, with more asphalt being dug up and ‘raised beds’ have been built. Many, many pots and seeds planted in the new poly greenhouse.Volunteers have obviously put in the hours here. The objective, not just to grow food for the Sumac itself ….. but also to provide a positive example on what can be achieved in quite modest urban surroundings.
With the recession in full swing more and more people are growing their own fruit and vegetables but what if you don’t have a garden or even a backyard?
See how to grow fruit and vegetables in containers at these weekly gardening sessions at the Sumac Centre. All welcome to learn, practice or help with organic, permaculture gardening.
Directions and contact details are at the Sumac Centre Website
Forest Fields Orchard had 100 fruit trees to plant in Forest Fields in 2009.
We are grateful to the late Kathleen Jannaway and the the Movement for Compassionate Living for the initial funding to establish the garden.MCL’s aims:
- To spread the vegan message and promote simple living and self-reliance as a remedy against the exploitation of humans, animals and the Earth.
- To promote the use of trees and vegan-organic farming to meet the needs of society for food and natural resources.
- To promote a land-based society where as much of our food and resources as possible are produced locally.
Other useful information is available from the Vegan Organic Network.
Vegan-organics is any system of cultivation that avoids artificial chemicals and sprays, livestock manures and animal remains from slaughter houses, with fertility maintained by vegetable compost, green manures, crop rotation, mulches, and any other method that is sustainable, ecologically viable and not dependent upon animal exploitation. …more…
5:00 pmForest Fields Food Gardening Club
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May22Tue
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Community Circle6:45 pm – 9:15 pm
It’s so simple… We meet once a month, share some food, talk to each other. Then we form a circle and introduce ourselves with an emphasis on being positive together. People are invited to think about what they need and what they might have to offer.All kinds of things have been asked for: baby clothes, help with finding a tradesperson, advice on sorting out benefits, someone to talk to, help cleaning out a shed etc. The need is spoken with no expectation of it being fulfilled. People in the circle respond if they feel it. Then people go around again and make offers, something they would like to share with no expectation of it being accepted.
We are trying to allow a space for everyone to be comfortable, so if you wish to come for the first part, socialising with a bit of food and a cuppa, that runs from around 6.45. Or if you feel more comfortable coming later for the go-round of needs, wants, and offers, then that starts around 7.30.
A wide range of things have been offered: guitar lessons, help with getting funding, carwashing etc, etc.All the requests and connections are beautifully drawn up onto a big sheet of paper.
Afterwards, people check in with those who responded to the gifts/needs/wishes to make arrangements! (Bring your diaries!)
These circles are of immediate benefit to long term unemployed, disabled and those with other challenging issues affecting their inclusion in mainstream society as well as to those committed.
It is also of benefit to those who are committed to doing something about the issues confronted by people so often excluded, by offering a clear opportunity for contribution.
By gathering allies and participants to share wants needs and offers new possibilities for reciprocal relationships evolve.
Community circles build the capacity of ordinary unpaid community members to be involved in making the UK a safer, friendlier, and more supportive community for all its members.
By engaging “consumers” and the community at large in this way, we strive to build a national community where all of us have enough money, healthy relationships, and a sense of purpose and meaning.
6:45 pmCommunity Circle
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May24Thu
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Autonomous Kids Project2:30 pm – 6:30 pmAutonomous Nottingham presents six weeks of street play in Forest Fields.
One of the key principals to Autonomous Nottingham is engagement with it’s community, another is an effort to show solidarity to those who are marginalised by the state and capitalism. We also believe in unlearning the spirit crushing atomization and individualization of everyday life, and the relearning of loving, sharing and coming together within shared spaces.
It’s with these ideas in mind that some of us have decided to once more take to the streets to play with the local kids. We will be running six play sessions to start with, on Thursdays between 4:30 and 6:30. And perhaps we’ll do some more after that.
We invite people to come and join us on Cedar Road – if you’ve got kids bring them, if you just want to play then bring yourself.
2:30 pmAutonomous Kids Project
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May26Sat
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People’s Kitchen7:00 pm – 7:00 pmA delightful dish is cooked and served at the Sumac Cafe by a different volunteer team each Saturday.
Dinner served from 7pm and you can PAY WHAT YOU WANT!
People’s Kitchen is completely run by volunteers. Help welcome from 6.30pm. Sumac Cafe Collective: To continue the success of Peoples’ Kitchen and to make decisions about it collectively come along on Friday 4th May at 6.30pm.
Example menus, recipes, pictures, reviews and other info may be found on the Veggies Diary Listing.
Roll up, roll up to volunteer for future Saturdays. From chopping veg through to heading up the menu, there are hands-on opportunities at every level for anyone wishing to find out more about vegan cookery. ‘Chefs’, cookery assistants, serfs and washers-up welcome – guidance given! Contact sumaccafe-at-riseup.net
7:00 pmPeople’s Kitchen
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May27Sun
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Take the Flour Back – GM Action!12:00 pm – 12:00 pm
Bakers, farmers, growers, allotment holders, scientists, beekeepers, and people who eat food are turning out to voice their opposition to GM crops coming back to the UK.There is to be a public mass action against the Rothamsted genetically modified wheat trial on Sunday 27th May 2012, 12noon at Rothamsted, Harpenden, Hertfordshire.
Rothamsted Research Centre has been given the go-ahead by the government to trial aphid-resistant wheat in the open air. Permission has been given for planting this Spring and in Spring 2013. £1.28 million of public money has gone into creating a crop modified to secrete a hormonal chemical compound which acts an alarm signal to keep aphids away and attracts aphid predators to the crop.
Full details at http://www.taketheflourback.org
12:00 pmTake the Flour Back – GM Action!
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May28Mon
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Forest Fields Food Gardening Club5:00 pm – 5:00 pmThe Forest Fields Food Gardening Club is in session again, currently on Mondays from 5pm at Sumac’s garden, which is organic and laid out to show the best use of a small space. It is full of ideas you could use in your own garden.
We can share seedings and materials. Local food production is an important part of a low carbon society.
Any time you can spare to help build this community resource is greatly appreciated. Your chance to get involved with exciting urban food project! We want to encourage, support and learn about food growing in Forest Fields. Drop in and help with the Sumac garden or discuss your growing needs.
See “Sumac Garden Project” photo report at Notts Indymedia.
The Sumac Garden has been much improved, with more asphalt being dug up and ‘raised beds’ have been built. Many, many pots and seeds planted in the new poly greenhouse.Volunteers have obviously put in the hours here. The objective, not just to grow food for the Sumac itself ….. but also to provide a positive example on what can be achieved in quite modest urban surroundings.
With the recession in full swing more and more people are growing their own fruit and vegetables but what if you don’t have a garden or even a backyard?
See how to grow fruit and vegetables in containers at these weekly gardening sessions at the Sumac Centre. All welcome to learn, practice or help with organic, permaculture gardening.
Directions and contact details are at the Sumac Centre Website
Forest Fields Orchard had 100 fruit trees to plant in Forest Fields in 2009.
We are grateful to the late Kathleen Jannaway and the the Movement for Compassionate Living for the initial funding to establish the garden.MCL’s aims:
- To spread the vegan message and promote simple living and self-reliance as a remedy against the exploitation of humans, animals and the Earth.
- To promote the use of trees and vegan-organic farming to meet the needs of society for food and natural resources.
- To promote a land-based society where as much of our food and resources as possible are produced locally.
Other useful information is available from the Vegan Organic Network.
Vegan-organics is any system of cultivation that avoids artificial chemicals and sprays, livestock manures and animal remains from slaughter houses, with fertility maintained by vegetable compost, green manures, crop rotation, mulches, and any other method that is sustainable, ecologically viable and not dependent upon animal exploitation. …more…
5:00 pmForest Fields Food Gardening Club -
Sumac Website Refurbishment7:00 pm – 7:00 pm
It is suggested that work be done to revamp the website. The next working group meeting may be on Monday 28th May at 7pm (to be confirmed – check back here later, or get in touch to express your interest).Please visit www.sumac.org.uk and send your comments.
What we want from the sumac website:
- To make it easier for people to get involved
- To make it easier to see events are hapenning at the Sumac
- To tell people who we are, what we do and what our values are
- To link in with the collectives who are based at the sumac
- A central place where sumac projects can recruit and communicate with volunteers- To sync together info about sumac events that exists in reality (i.e. diaries in the centre) with the same info online
- To be simple to use
- To increase the communication with people who cant actually make it to the Sumac
- To be transparent (but also aware of the need for confidentiality at time- To not replicate what already exists, or what Indymedia is for
- To sync together the website with other online communities connected to the centre (such as Facebook)
- To be mindful of the ethics of online tools, and open source as much as possibleIssues raised
- Being mindful of duplicating what already exists. A lot of what we want may already be avaialble on the current site, but the current site uses programming language that is complicated and few people have the skills to update it, so..
- It needs to be simpe to use. Possibly something ike wordpress
- Discussion of the necessity or not of having one primary diary, between paper and online versions. Also, the possibility of phasing out the paper diaries and eventually replacing them with a computer diary in the centre
- being mindful of what we can expect a website to achieve, and being realistic about this. It isnt going to solve all the issues of the Sumac and have the centre packed to the gills with people
- Mindful that there is a fair amount of energy to work on the website and maintain in at the moment.
Ideas for the front page of the site:
- Picture of the building
- Introduction to the centre
- Contact details
- Map
- News and/or events feed
- Links to collectives in the centre
Possible structure
Homepage
- - About
- – Ethics/politics
- – Sumac Tree
- – History
- – Legal stuff
- – Constitution
- – Minutes
- - Cafe
- - Social Club
- - Events
- – Events calendar
- – Booking events
- - User groups
- – Autonomous Nottingham
- – Nottingham Animal Rights
- – Notts Indymedia
- – Veggies Catering Campaign
- – etc.
- – Old/defunct groups
- - Get involved
- – Volunteer
- — Cafe
- — Bar
- — etc.
- - Contact
- Address, phone, email, contact form
- Maps, route finder, public transport
7:00 pmSumac Website Refurbishment - - About
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May30Wed
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Derby Animal Rights8:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Derby Animal Rights addresses the issues of animal rights, protection and welfare. If you feel passionately about the rights of animals or would like to find out more about the group then come along to one of our meeting or contact us.We are also on Facebook and are part of the Midlands Animal Rights Coalition
We meet to network activities, as a social gathering and to discuss current campaigns at 8pm the Brewery Tap, 1 Derwent Street, Derby DE1 2ED, in the Royal Room (upstairs).
8:00 pmDerby Animal Rights
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May31Thu
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Autonomous Kids Project2:30 pm – 6:30 pmAutonomous Nottingham presents six weeks of street play in Forest Fields.
One of the key principals to Autonomous Nottingham is engagement with it’s community, another is an effort to show solidarity to those who are marginalised by the state and capitalism. We also believe in unlearning the spirit crushing atomization and individualization of everyday life, and the relearning of loving, sharing and coming together within shared spaces.
It’s with these ideas in mind that some of us have decided to once more take to the streets to play with the local kids. We will be running six play sessions to start with, on Thursdays between 4:30 and 6:30. And perhaps we’ll do some more after that.
We invite people to come and join us on Cedar Road – if you’ve got kids bring them, if you just want to play then bring yourself.
2:30 pmAutonomous Kids Project -
Nottingham Animal Rights7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Nottingham Animal Rights Networking meetings every 4 weeks at the Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, (New Basford / Forest Fields), NG7 6HX, to plan forthcoming campaign activities, usually starting at 7.30pm.
All welcome – hunt sabs, vegan campaigners, AR activists, people who want to get involved, and people who just want to know more about what we do, including supporters of Animal Aid, Greyhound Action, Hunt Sabs, SHAC, VIVA!, Vegan Society, Vegetarian Society, and the many other groups that have local supporters.
Support Nottingham Animal Rights
7:30 pmNottingham Animal Rights
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Jun2Sat
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People’s Kitchen7:00 pm – 7:00 pmA delightful dish is cooked and served at the Sumac Cafe by a different volunteer team each Saturday.
Dinner served from 7pm and you can PAY WHAT YOU WANT!
People’s Kitchen is completely run by volunteers. Help welcome from 6.30pm. Sumac Cafe Collective: To continue the success of Peoples’ Kitchen and to make decisions about it collectively come along on Friday 4th May at 6.30pm.
Example menus, recipes, pictures, reviews and other info may be found on the Veggies Diary Listing.
Roll up, roll up to volunteer for future Saturdays. From chopping veg through to heading up the menu, there are hands-on opportunities at every level for anyone wishing to find out more about vegan cookery. ‘Chefs’, cookery assistants, serfs and washers-up welcome – guidance given! Contact sumaccafe-at-riseup.net
7:00 pmPeople’s Kitchen
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Jun4Mon
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Forest Fields Food Gardening Club5:00 pm – 5:00 pmThe Forest Fields Food Gardening Club is in session again, currently on Mondays from 5pm at Sumac’s garden, which is organic and laid out to show the best use of a small space. It is full of ideas you could use in your own garden.
We can share seedings and materials. Local food production is an important part of a low carbon society.
Any time you can spare to help build this community resource is greatly appreciated. Your chance to get involved with exciting urban food project! We want to encourage, support and learn about food growing in Forest Fields. Drop in and help with the Sumac garden or discuss your growing needs.
See “Sumac Garden Project” photo report at Notts Indymedia.
The Sumac Garden has been much improved, with more asphalt being dug up and ‘raised beds’ have been built. Many, many pots and seeds planted in the new poly greenhouse.Volunteers have obviously put in the hours here. The objective, not just to grow food for the Sumac itself ….. but also to provide a positive example on what can be achieved in quite modest urban surroundings.
With the recession in full swing more and more people are growing their own fruit and vegetables but what if you don’t have a garden or even a backyard?
See how to grow fruit and vegetables in containers at these weekly gardening sessions at the Sumac Centre. All welcome to learn, practice or help with organic, permaculture gardening.
Directions and contact details are at the Sumac Centre Website
Forest Fields Orchard had 100 fruit trees to plant in Forest Fields in 2009.
We are grateful to the late Kathleen Jannaway and the the Movement for Compassionate Living for the initial funding to establish the garden.MCL’s aims:
- To spread the vegan message and promote simple living and self-reliance as a remedy against the exploitation of humans, animals and the Earth.
- To promote the use of trees and vegan-organic farming to meet the needs of society for food and natural resources.
- To promote a land-based society where as much of our food and resources as possible are produced locally.
Other useful information is available from the Vegan Organic Network.
Vegan-organics is any system of cultivation that avoids artificial chemicals and sprays, livestock manures and animal remains from slaughter houses, with fertility maintained by vegetable compost, green manures, crop rotation, mulches, and any other method that is sustainable, ecologically viable and not dependent upon animal exploitation. …more…
5:00 pmForest Fields Food Gardening Club -
Sumac Centre Meeting7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Meeting (usually) on first Monday monthly for all supporters of the Sumac Centre.To get involved just drop by and join in!
There is a standard agenda, other business may be raised on the night, or contact us.
There is an archive of notes from the past meetings, to be transferred to the proposed new sumac website.
We aim to use a consensus process, to work creatively to include everyone decision-making . To find out more about this, see the Groups and Meetings briefings at Seeds for Change.
See also Sumac’s Secondary Rules and Ethical Policies.If you can’t make it to the meetings, subscribe to a SumacNews announcements email list.
7:30 pmSumac Centre Meeting
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Jun7Thu
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Autonomous Kids Project2:30 pm – 6:30 pmAutonomous Nottingham presents six weeks of street play in Forest Fields.
One of the key principals to Autonomous Nottingham is engagement with it’s community, another is an effort to show solidarity to those who are marginalised by the state and capitalism. We also believe in unlearning the spirit crushing atomization and individualization of everyday life, and the relearning of loving, sharing and coming together within shared spaces.
It’s with these ideas in mind that some of us have decided to once more take to the streets to play with the local kids. We will be running six play sessions to start with, on Thursdays between 4:30 and 6:30. And perhaps we’ll do some more after that.
We invite people to come and join us on Cedar Road – if you’ve got kids bring them, if you just want to play then bring yourself.
2:30 pmAutonomous Kids Project
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Jun9Sat
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People’s Kitchen7:00 pm – 7:00 pmA delightful dish is cooked and served at the Sumac Cafe by a different volunteer team each Saturday.
Dinner served from 7pm and you can PAY WHAT YOU WANT!
People’s Kitchen is completely run by volunteers. Help welcome from 6.30pm. Sumac Cafe Collective: To continue the success of Peoples’ Kitchen and to make decisions about it collectively come along on Friday 4th May at 6.30pm.
Example menus, recipes, pictures, reviews and other info may be found on the Veggies Diary Listing.
Roll up, roll up to volunteer for future Saturdays. From chopping veg through to heading up the menu, there are hands-on opportunities at every level for anyone wishing to find out more about vegan cookery. ‘Chefs’, cookery assistants, serfs and washers-up welcome – guidance given! Contact sumaccafe-at-riseup.net
7:00 pmPeople’s Kitchen
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Jun10Sun
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Nottingham Green Festival10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Veggies will be catering at the 21st Nottingham Green Festival, which will be held at Arboretum Park (Waverley Street/Addison Street), a little later in the year than usual.Nottingham’s only green event, now running annually for over 2 decades, is the traditional start of our summer season.
With our environment and changing weather on everyone’s lips, Nottingham’s own green festival is the place for the whole family to learn, explore and try the latest in everything environmentally friendly and ethical whilst also having lots of fun in the beautiful setting of the Arboretum Park.
This event has over 100 product, information and food stalls, kids rides, workshops, alternative therapies and technologies, live performers, entertainments throughout the park, live music bands performing from the bandstand and Veggies Catering nearby.
The Green Festival aims to provide a family event aimed at our whole community. Immerse them in a wholly natural atmosphere of live music and dance, re-cycled arts and nature themed workshops, organic & natural food and local allotment and plant stalls. Also natural cosmetics and fair trade and wildlife stalls, alternative energy and natural health.
A multitude of stalls with expertise and information sharing, to raise awareness and encourage ethical living and friendliness and a greater understanding towards our threatened environment.
Live music and entertainment at the Bandstand has been organised by Sweetpotato Promotions. We hope to provide:
- Veggies Catering
- Sumac Info Marquee
- Book & Magazine stall
- Nottm Animal Rights
- Nottm Vegetarians & Vegans
Other possible campaign spaces:
- Shut Down H&K/Anti-Militarism
- NNRF Refugee campaigning
- ExLibris Masked Booksellers + Sparrows’ Nest
Let us know if you are running a like-minded stall at this event.
We therefore need LOTS of help
Please contact us with your name & phone no and let us know any thing extra you can provide, eg transport, structures, entertainment and any particular area of interest.
Veggies Climate Change Campaigns
To get to this event, 1.4 miles from our Sumac Centre base, Veggies may emit approx 2kg CO2. However by helping an estimated 600 people Eat Vegan we will “offset” 1200 kg CO2.
If ONE customer goes Vegan For Life, they will save 1.5 tonnes CO2 every year, as well as saving 4022 animals lives, and enabling all the world’s peoples to receive a Fair Share of the world’s resources. [carbon calculation references]
Previous Years
- 2011 review at Blues is My Middle Name
- 2011 Indymedia Report
- 2011 Evening Post Report
- 2011 Veggies Listing
- 2010 review by Nottingham Greenpeace
- 2010 Indymedia Report
- 2010 Veggies Listing
- 2009 Indymedia Report
- 2009 Veggies Listing
- 2008 Left Lion Preview Article
- 2006 Indymedia Report
- 2005 Indymedia Report
10:00 amNottingham Green Festival
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Jun11Mon
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Forest Fields Food Gardening Club5:00 pm – 5:00 pmThe Forest Fields Food Gardening Club is in session again, currently on Mondays from 5pm at Sumac’s garden, which is organic and laid out to show the best use of a small space. It is full of ideas you could use in your own garden.
We can share seedings and materials. Local food production is an important part of a low carbon society.
Any time you can spare to help build this community resource is greatly appreciated. Your chance to get involved with exciting urban food project! We want to encourage, support and learn about food growing in Forest Fields. Drop in and help with the Sumac garden or discuss your growing needs.
See “Sumac Garden Project” photo report at Notts Indymedia.
The Sumac Garden has been much improved, with more asphalt being dug up and ‘raised beds’ have been built. Many, many pots and seeds planted in the new poly greenhouse.Volunteers have obviously put in the hours here. The objective, not just to grow food for the Sumac itself ….. but also to provide a positive example on what can be achieved in quite modest urban surroundings.
With the recession in full swing more and more people are growing their own fruit and vegetables but what if you don’t have a garden or even a backyard?
See how to grow fruit and vegetables in containers at these weekly gardening sessions at the Sumac Centre. All welcome to learn, practice or help with organic, permaculture gardening.
Directions and contact details are at the Sumac Centre Website
Forest Fields Orchard had 100 fruit trees to plant in Forest Fields in 2009.
We are grateful to the late Kathleen Jannaway and the the Movement for Compassionate Living for the initial funding to establish the garden.MCL’s aims:
- To spread the vegan message and promote simple living and self-reliance as a remedy against the exploitation of humans, animals and the Earth.
- To promote the use of trees and vegan-organic farming to meet the needs of society for food and natural resources.
- To promote a land-based society where as much of our food and resources as possible are produced locally.
Other useful information is available from the Vegan Organic Network.
Vegan-organics is any system of cultivation that avoids artificial chemicals and sprays, livestock manures and animal remains from slaughter houses, with fertility maintained by vegetable compost, green manures, crop rotation, mulches, and any other method that is sustainable, ecologically viable and not dependent upon animal exploitation. …more…
5:00 pmForest Fields Food Gardening Club
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Jun13Wed
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Derby Animal Rights8:00 pm – 8:00 pmDerby Animal Rights addresses the issues of animal rights, protection and welfare. If you feel passionately about the rights of animals or would like to find out more about the group then come along to one of our meeting or contact us.
We are also on Facebook and are part of the Midlands Animal Rights Coalition
We meet to network activities, as a social gathering and to discuss current campaigns at 8pm the Brewery Tap, 1 Derwent Street, Derby DE1 2ED, in the Royal Room (upstairs).
8:00 pmDerby Animal Rights
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Jun16Sat
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People’s Kitchen7:00 pm – 7:00 pmA delightful dish is cooked and served at the Sumac Cafe by a different volunteer team each Saturday.
Dinner served from 7pm and you can PAY WHAT YOU WANT!
People’s Kitchen is completely run by volunteers. Help welcome from 6.30pm. Sumac Cafe Collective: To continue the success of Peoples’ Kitchen and to make decisions about it collectively come along on Friday 4th May at 6.30pm.
Example menus, recipes, pictures, reviews and other info may be found on the Veggies Diary Listing.
Roll up, roll up to volunteer for future Saturdays. From chopping veg through to heading up the menu, there are hands-on opportunities at every level for anyone wishing to find out more about vegan cookery. ‘Chefs’, cookery assistants, serfs and washers-up welcome – guidance given! Contact sumaccafe-at-riseup.net
7:00 pmPeople’s Kitchen
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Jun18Mon
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Forest Fields Food Gardening Club5:00 pm – 5:00 pmThe Forest Fields Food Gardening Club is in session again, currently on Mondays from 5pm at Sumac’s garden, which is organic and laid out to show the best use of a small space. It is full of ideas you could use in your own garden.
We can share seedings and materials. Local food production is an important part of a low carbon society.
Any time you can spare to help build this community resource is greatly appreciated. Your chance to get involved with exciting urban food project! We want to encourage, support and learn about food growing in Forest Fields. Drop in and help with the Sumac garden or discuss your growing needs.
See “Sumac Garden Project” photo report at Notts Indymedia.
The Sumac Garden has been much improved, with more asphalt being dug up and ‘raised beds’ have been built. Many, many pots and seeds planted in the new poly greenhouse.Volunteers have obviously put in the hours here. The objective, not just to grow food for the Sumac itself ….. but also to provide a positive example on what can be achieved in quite modest urban surroundings.
With the recession in full swing more and more people are growing their own fruit and vegetables but what if you don’t have a garden or even a backyard?
See how to grow fruit and vegetables in containers at these weekly gardening sessions at the Sumac Centre. All welcome to learn, practice or help with organic, permaculture gardening.
Directions and contact details are at the Sumac Centre Website
Forest Fields Orchard had 100 fruit trees to plant in Forest Fields in 2009.
We are grateful to the late Kathleen Jannaway and the the Movement for Compassionate Living for the initial funding to establish the garden.MCL’s aims:
- To spread the vegan message and promote simple living and self-reliance as a remedy against the exploitation of humans, animals and the Earth.
- To promote the use of trees and vegan-organic farming to meet the needs of society for food and natural resources.
- To promote a land-based society where as much of our food and resources as possible are produced locally.
Other useful information is available from the Vegan Organic Network.
Vegan-organics is any system of cultivation that avoids artificial chemicals and sprays, livestock manures and animal remains from slaughter houses, with fertility maintained by vegetable compost, green manures, crop rotation, mulches, and any other method that is sustainable, ecologically viable and not dependent upon animal exploitation. …more…
5:00 pmForest Fields Food Gardening Club
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Jun22Fri
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Ashleyhay Festival (all-day)Jun 22 – Jun 23
Ashleyhay is a community festival for about 700 people at Sycamore Farm, Knob Lane, Ashleyhay, near Alport Height, in the Derbyshire Peak District, starting on the Friday Morning.As they say in their Food & Drink info: “this is a dead-animal-free festival. Respect your neighbours, don’t eat them” and “Veggies awesome food will be here with the best veggie burgers, flap jacks, chocolate brownies and tea in the World (as well as a bunch of other stuff)”.
Music, camping , frolicking in the fields of Sycamore Farm and some really good beer. Ashleyhay is run entirely by voluteers. All the musicians perform for nothing. All the helpers do it for free to support charities and campaigns like Greenpeace, ROKPA, Aquabox and the Mamelodi Trust.
Full details at http://www.ashleyhayfestival.co.uk/
Ashleyhay Festival (all-day)
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Jun23Sat
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People’s Kitchen7:00 pm – 7:00 pmA delightful dish is cooked and served at the Sumac Cafe by a different volunteer team each Saturday.
Dinner served from 7pm and you can PAY WHAT YOU WANT!
People’s Kitchen is completely run by volunteers. Help welcome from 6.30pm. Sumac Cafe Collective: To continue the success of Peoples’ Kitchen and to make decisions about it collectively come along on Friday 4th May at 6.30pm.
Example menus, recipes, pictures, reviews and other info may be found on the Veggies Diary Listing.
Roll up, roll up to volunteer for future Saturdays. From chopping veg through to heading up the menu, there are hands-on opportunities at every level for anyone wishing to find out more about vegan cookery. ‘Chefs’, cookery assistants, serfs and washers-up welcome – guidance given! Contact sumaccafe-at-riseup.net
7:00 pmPeople’s Kitchen
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Jun25Mon
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Forest Fields Food Gardening Club5:00 pm – 5:00 pmThe Forest Fields Food Gardening Club is in session again, currently on Mondays from 5pm at Sumac’s garden, which is organic and laid out to show the best use of a small space. It is full of ideas you could use in your own garden.
We can share seedings and materials. Local food production is an important part of a low carbon society.
Any time you can spare to help build this community resource is greatly appreciated. Your chance to get involved with exciting urban food project! We want to encourage, support and learn about food growing in Forest Fields. Drop in and help with the Sumac garden or discuss your growing needs.
See “Sumac Garden Project” photo report at Notts Indymedia.
The Sumac Garden has been much improved, with more asphalt being dug up and ‘raised beds’ have been built. Many, many pots and seeds planted in the new poly greenhouse.Volunteers have obviously put in the hours here. The objective, not just to grow food for the Sumac itself ….. but also to provide a positive example on what can be achieved in quite modest urban surroundings.
With the recession in full swing more and more people are growing their own fruit and vegetables but what if you don’t have a garden or even a backyard?
See how to grow fruit and vegetables in containers at these weekly gardening sessions at the Sumac Centre. All welcome to learn, practice or help with organic, permaculture gardening.
Directions and contact details are at the Sumac Centre Website
Forest Fields Orchard had 100 fruit trees to plant in Forest Fields in 2009.
We are grateful to the late Kathleen Jannaway and the the Movement for Compassionate Living for the initial funding to establish the garden.MCL’s aims:
- To spread the vegan message and promote simple living and self-reliance as a remedy against the exploitation of humans, animals and the Earth.
- To promote the use of trees and vegan-organic farming to meet the needs of society for food and natural resources.
- To promote a land-based society where as much of our food and resources as possible are produced locally.
Other useful information is available from the Vegan Organic Network.
Vegan-organics is any system of cultivation that avoids artificial chemicals and sprays, livestock manures and animal remains from slaughter houses, with fertility maintained by vegetable compost, green manures, crop rotation, mulches, and any other method that is sustainable, ecologically viable and not dependent upon animal exploitation. …more…
5:00 pmForest Fields Food Gardening Club
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Jun27Wed
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Derby Animal Rights8:00 pm – 8:00 pmDerby Animal Rights addresses the issues of animal rights, protection and welfare. If you feel passionately about the rights of animals or would like to find out more about the group then come along to one of our meeting or contact us.
We are also on Facebook and are part of the Midlands Animal Rights Coalition
We meet to network activities, as a social gathering and to discuss current campaigns at 8pm the Brewery Tap, 1 Derwent Street, Derby DE1 2ED, in the Royal Room (upstairs).
8:00 pmDerby Animal Rights
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Jun28Thu
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Nottingham Animal Rights7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Nottingham Animal Rights Networking meetings every 4 weeks at the Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, (New Basford / Forest Fields), NG7 6HX, to plan forthcoming campaign activities, usually starting at 7.30pm.
All welcome – hunt sabs, vegan campaigners, AR activists, people who want to get involved, and people who just want to know more about what we do, including supporters of Animal Aid, Greyhound Action, Hunt Sabs, SHAC, VIVA!, Vegan Society, Vegetarian Society, and the many other groups that have local supporters.
Support Nottingham Animal Rights
7:30 pmNottingham Animal Rights
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Jun30Sat
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People’s Kitchen7:00 pm – 7:00 pmA delightful dish is cooked and served at the Sumac Cafe by a different volunteer team each Saturday.
Dinner served from 7pm and you can PAY WHAT YOU WANT!
People’s Kitchen is completely run by volunteers. Help welcome from 6.30pm. Sumac Cafe Collective: To continue the success of Peoples’ Kitchen and to make decisions about it collectively come along on Friday 4th May at 6.30pm.
Example menus, recipes, pictures, reviews and other info may be found on the Veggies Diary Listing.
Roll up, roll up to volunteer for future Saturdays. From chopping veg through to heading up the menu, there are hands-on opportunities at every level for anyone wishing to find out more about vegan cookery. ‘Chefs’, cookery assistants, serfs and washers-up welcome – guidance given! Contact sumaccafe-at-riseup.net
7:00 pmPeople’s Kitchen
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Jul2Mon
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Forest Fields Food Gardening Club5:00 pm – 5:00 pmThe Forest Fields Food Gardening Club is in session again, currently on Mondays from 5pm at Sumac’s garden, which is organic and laid out to show the best use of a small space. It is full of ideas you could use in your own garden.
We can share seedings and materials. Local food production is an important part of a low carbon society.
Any time you can spare to help build this community resource is greatly appreciated. Your chance to get involved with exciting urban food project! We want to encourage, support and learn about food growing in Forest Fields. Drop in and help with the Sumac garden or discuss your growing needs.
See “Sumac Garden Project” photo report at Notts Indymedia.
The Sumac Garden has been much improved, with more asphalt being dug up and ‘raised beds’ have been built. Many, many pots and seeds planted in the new poly greenhouse.Volunteers have obviously put in the hours here. The objective, not just to grow food for the Sumac itself ….. but also to provide a positive example on what can be achieved in quite modest urban surroundings.
With the recession in full swing more and more people are growing their own fruit and vegetables but what if you don’t have a garden or even a backyard?
See how to grow fruit and vegetables in containers at these weekly gardening sessions at the Sumac Centre. All welcome to learn, practice or help with organic, permaculture gardening.
Directions and contact details are at the Sumac Centre Website
Forest Fields Orchard had 100 fruit trees to plant in Forest Fields in 2009.
We are grateful to the late Kathleen Jannaway and the the Movement for Compassionate Living for the initial funding to establish the garden.MCL’s aims:
- To spread the vegan message and promote simple living and self-reliance as a remedy against the exploitation of humans, animals and the Earth.
- To promote the use of trees and vegan-organic farming to meet the needs of society for food and natural resources.
- To promote a land-based society where as much of our food and resources as possible are produced locally.
Other useful information is available from the Vegan Organic Network.
Vegan-organics is any system of cultivation that avoids artificial chemicals and sprays, livestock manures and animal remains from slaughter houses, with fertility maintained by vegetable compost, green manures, crop rotation, mulches, and any other method that is sustainable, ecologically viable and not dependent upon animal exploitation. …more…
5:00 pmForest Fields Food Gardening Club -
Sumac Centre Meeting7:30 pm – 9:30 pmMeeting (usually) on first Monday monthly for all supporters of the Sumac Centre.
To get involved just drop by and join in!
There is a standard agenda, other business may be raised on the night, or contact us.
There is an archive of notes from the past meetings, to be transferred to the proposed new sumac website.
We aim to use a consensus process, to work creatively to include everyone decision-making . To find out more about this, see the Groups and Meetings briefings at Seeds for Change.
See also Sumac’s Secondary Rules and Ethical Policies.If you can’t make it to the meetings, subscribe to a SumacNews announcements email list.
7:30 pmSumac Centre Meeting
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Jul7Sat
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People’s Kitchen7:00 pm – 7:00 pmA delightful dish is cooked and served at the Sumac Cafe by a different volunteer team each Saturday.
Dinner served from 7pm and you can PAY WHAT YOU WANT!
People’s Kitchen is completely run by volunteers. Help welcome from 6.30pm. Sumac Cafe Collective: To continue the success of Peoples’ Kitchen and to make decisions about it collectively come along on Friday 4th May at 6.30pm.
Example menus, recipes, pictures, reviews and other info may be found on the Veggies Diary Listing.
Roll up, roll up to volunteer for future Saturdays. From chopping veg through to heading up the menu, there are hands-on opportunities at every level for anyone wishing to find out more about vegan cookery. ‘Chefs’, cookery assistants, serfs and washers-up welcome – guidance given! Contact sumaccafe-at-riseup.net
7:00 pmPeople’s Kitchen
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Jul9Mon
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Forest Fields Food Gardening Club5:00 pm – 5:00 pmThe Forest Fields Food Gardening Club is in session again, currently on Mondays from 5pm at Sumac’s garden, which is organic and laid out to show the best use of a small space. It is full of ideas you could use in your own garden.
We can share seedings and materials. Local food production is an important part of a low carbon society.
Any time you can spare to help build this community resource is greatly appreciated. Your chance to get involved with exciting urban food project! We want to encourage, support and learn about food growing in Forest Fields. Drop in and help with the Sumac garden or discuss your growing needs.
See “Sumac Garden Project” photo report at Notts Indymedia.
The Sumac Garden has been much improved, with more asphalt being dug up and ‘raised beds’ have been built. Many, many pots and seeds planted in the new poly greenhouse.Volunteers have obviously put in the hours here. The objective, not just to grow food for the Sumac itself ….. but also to provide a positive example on what can be achieved in quite modest urban surroundings.
With the recession in full swing more and more people are growing their own fruit and vegetables but what if you don’t have a garden or even a backyard?
See how to grow fruit and vegetables in containers at these weekly gardening sessions at the Sumac Centre. All welcome to learn, practice or help with organic, permaculture gardening.
Directions and contact details are at the Sumac Centre Website
Forest Fields Orchard had 100 fruit trees to plant in Forest Fields in 2009.
We are grateful to the late Kathleen Jannaway and the the Movement for Compassionate Living for the initial funding to establish the garden.MCL’s aims:
- To spread the vegan message and promote simple living and self-reliance as a remedy against the exploitation of humans, animals and the Earth.
- To promote the use of trees and vegan-organic farming to meet the needs of society for food and natural resources.
- To promote a land-based society where as much of our food and resources as possible are produced locally.
Other useful information is available from the Vegan Organic Network.
Vegan-organics is any system of cultivation that avoids artificial chemicals and sprays, livestock manures and animal remains from slaughter houses, with fertility maintained by vegetable compost, green manures, crop rotation, mulches, and any other method that is sustainable, ecologically viable and not dependent upon animal exploitation. …more…
5:00 pmForest Fields Food Gardening Club
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Jul11Wed
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Derby Animal Rights8:00 pm – 8:00 pmDerby Animal Rights addresses the issues of animal rights, protection and welfare. If you feel passionately about the rights of animals or would like to find out more about the group then come along to one of our meeting or contact us.
We are also on Facebook and are part of the Midlands Animal Rights Coalition
We meet to network activities, as a social gathering and to discuss current campaigns at 8pm the Brewery Tap, 1 Derwent Street, Derby DE1 2ED, in the Royal Room (upstairs).
8:00 pmDerby Animal Rights
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Jul14Sat
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People’s Kitchen7:00 pm – 7:00 pmA delightful dish is cooked and served at the Sumac Cafe by a different volunteer team each Saturday.
Dinner served from 7pm and you can PAY WHAT YOU WANT!
People’s Kitchen is completely run by volunteers. Help welcome from 6.30pm. Sumac Cafe Collective: To continue the success of Peoples’ Kitchen and to make decisions about it collectively come along on Friday 4th May at 6.30pm.
Example menus, recipes, pictures, reviews and other info may be found on the Veggies Diary Listing.
Roll up, roll up to volunteer for future Saturdays. From chopping veg through to heading up the menu, there are hands-on opportunities at every level for anyone wishing to find out more about vegan cookery. ‘Chefs’, cookery assistants, serfs and washers-up welcome – guidance given! Contact sumaccafe-at-riseup.net
7:00 pmPeople’s Kitchen
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Jul16Mon
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Forest Fields Food Gardening Club5:00 pm – 5:00 pmThe Forest Fields Food Gardening Club is in session again, currently on Mondays from 5pm at Sumac’s garden, which is organic and laid out to show the best use of a small space. It is full of ideas you could use in your own garden.
We can share seedings and materials. Local food production is an important part of a low carbon society.
Any time you can spare to help build this community resource is greatly appreciated. Your chance to get involved with exciting urban food project! We want to encourage, support and learn about food growing in Forest Fields. Drop in and help with the Sumac garden or discuss your growing needs.
See “Sumac Garden Project” photo report at Notts Indymedia.
The Sumac Garden has been much improved, with more asphalt being dug up and ‘raised beds’ have been built. Many, many pots and seeds planted in the new poly greenhouse.Volunteers have obviously put in the hours here. The objective, not just to grow food for the Sumac itself ….. but also to provide a positive example on what can be achieved in quite modest urban surroundings.
With the recession in full swing more and more people are growing their own fruit and vegetables but what if you don’t have a garden or even a backyard?
See how to grow fruit and vegetables in containers at these weekly gardening sessions at the Sumac Centre. All welcome to learn, practice or help with organic, permaculture gardening.
Directions and contact details are at the Sumac Centre Website
Forest Fields Orchard had 100 fruit trees to plant in Forest Fields in 2009.
We are grateful to the late Kathleen Jannaway and the the Movement for Compassionate Living for the initial funding to establish the garden.MCL’s aims:
- To spread the vegan message and promote simple living and self-reliance as a remedy against the exploitation of humans, animals and the Earth.
- To promote the use of trees and vegan-organic farming to meet the needs of society for food and natural resources.
- To promote a land-based society where as much of our food and resources as possible are produced locally.
Other useful information is available from the Vegan Organic Network.
Vegan-organics is any system of cultivation that avoids artificial chemicals and sprays, livestock manures and animal remains from slaughter houses, with fertility maintained by vegetable compost, green manures, crop rotation, mulches, and any other method that is sustainable, ecologically viable and not dependent upon animal exploitation. …more…
5:00 pmForest Fields Food Gardening Club
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Jul21Sat
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People’s Kitchen7:00 pm – 7:00 pmA delightful dish is cooked and served at the Sumac Cafe by a different volunteer team each Saturday.
Dinner served from 7pm and you can PAY WHAT YOU WANT!
People’s Kitchen is completely run by volunteers. Help welcome from 6.30pm. Sumac Cafe Collective: To continue the success of Peoples’ Kitchen and to make decisions about it collectively come along on Friday 4th May at 6.30pm.
Example menus, recipes, pictures, reviews and other info may be found on the Veggies Diary Listing.
Roll up, roll up to volunteer for future Saturdays. From chopping veg through to heading up the menu, there are hands-on opportunities at every level for anyone wishing to find out more about vegan cookery. ‘Chefs’, cookery assistants, serfs and washers-up welcome – guidance given! Contact sumaccafe-at-riseup.net
7:00 pmPeople’s Kitchen
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Jul23Mon
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Forest Fields Food Gardening Club5:00 pm – 5:00 pmThe Forest Fields Food Gardening Club is in session again, currently on Mondays from 5pm at Sumac’s garden, which is organic and laid out to show the best use of a small space. It is full of ideas you could use in your own garden.
We can share seedings and materials. Local food production is an important part of a low carbon society.
Any time you can spare to help build this community resource is greatly appreciated. Your chance to get involved with exciting urban food project! We want to encourage, support and learn about food growing in Forest Fields. Drop in and help with the Sumac garden or discuss your growing needs.
See “Sumac Garden Project” photo report at Notts Indymedia.
The Sumac Garden has been much improved, with more asphalt being dug up and ‘raised beds’ have been built. Many, many pots and seeds planted in the new poly greenhouse.Volunteers have obviously put in the hours here. The objective, not just to grow food for the Sumac itself ….. but also to provide a positive example on what can be achieved in quite modest urban surroundings.
With the recession in full swing more and more people are growing their own fruit and vegetables but what if you don’t have a garden or even a backyard?
See how to grow fruit and vegetables in containers at these weekly gardening sessions at the Sumac Centre. All welcome to learn, practice or help with organic, permaculture gardening.
Directions and contact details are at the Sumac Centre Website
Forest Fields Orchard had 100 fruit trees to plant in Forest Fields in 2009.
We are grateful to the late Kathleen Jannaway and the the Movement for Compassionate Living for the initial funding to establish the garden.MCL’s aims:
- To spread the vegan message and promote simple living and self-reliance as a remedy against the exploitation of humans, animals and the Earth.
- To promote the use of trees and vegan-organic farming to meet the needs of society for food and natural resources.
- To promote a land-based society where as much of our food and resources as possible are produced locally.
Other useful information is available from the Vegan Organic Network.
Vegan-organics is any system of cultivation that avoids artificial chemicals and sprays, livestock manures and animal remains from slaughter houses, with fertility maintained by vegetable compost, green manures, crop rotation, mulches, and any other method that is sustainable, ecologically viable and not dependent upon animal exploitation. …more…
5:00 pmForest Fields Food Gardening Club
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Jul25Wed
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Derby Animal Rights8:00 pm – 8:00 pmDerby Animal Rights addresses the issues of animal rights, protection and welfare. If you feel passionately about the rights of animals or would like to find out more about the group then come along to one of our meeting or contact us.
We are also on Facebook and are part of the Midlands Animal Rights Coalition
We meet to network activities, as a social gathering and to discuss current campaigns at 8pm the Brewery Tap, 1 Derwent Street, Derby DE1 2ED, in the Royal Room (upstairs).
8:00 pmDerby Animal Rights
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Jul26Thu
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Nottingham Animal Rights7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Nottingham Animal Rights Networking meetings every 4 weeks at the Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, (New Basford / Forest Fields), NG7 6HX, to plan forthcoming campaign activities, usually starting at 7.30pm.
All welcome – hunt sabs, vegan campaigners, AR activists, people who want to get involved, and people who just want to know more about what we do, including supporters of Animal Aid, Greyhound Action, Hunt Sabs, SHAC, VIVA!, Vegan Society, Vegetarian Society, and the many other groups that have local supporters.
Support Nottingham Animal Rights
7:30 pmNottingham Animal Rights
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Jul28Sat
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People’s Kitchen7:00 pm – 7:00 pmA delightful dish is cooked and served at the Sumac Cafe by a different volunteer team each Saturday.
Dinner served from 7pm and you can PAY WHAT YOU WANT!
People’s Kitchen is completely run by volunteers. Help welcome from 6.30pm. Sumac Cafe Collective: To continue the success of Peoples’ Kitchen and to make decisions about it collectively come along on Friday 4th May at 6.30pm.
Example menus, recipes, pictures, reviews and other info may be found on the Veggies Diary Listing.
Roll up, roll up to volunteer for future Saturdays. From chopping veg through to heading up the menu, there are hands-on opportunities at every level for anyone wishing to find out more about vegan cookery. ‘Chefs’, cookery assistants, serfs and washers-up welcome – guidance given! Contact sumaccafe-at-riseup.net
7:00 pmPeople’s Kitchen
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Jul30Mon
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Forest Fields Food Gardening Club5:00 pm – 5:00 pmThe Forest Fields Food Gardening Club is in session again, currently on Mondays from 5pm at Sumac’s garden, which is organic and laid out to show the best use of a small space. It is full of ideas you could use in your own garden.
We can share seedings and materials. Local food production is an important part of a low carbon society.
Any time you can spare to help build this community resource is greatly appreciated. Your chance to get involved with exciting urban food project! We want to encourage, support and learn about food growing in Forest Fields. Drop in and help with the Sumac garden or discuss your growing needs.
See “Sumac Garden Project” photo report at Notts Indymedia.
The Sumac Garden has been much improved, with more asphalt being dug up and ‘raised beds’ have been built. Many, many pots and seeds planted in the new poly greenhouse.Volunteers have obviously put in the hours here. The objective, not just to grow food for the Sumac itself ….. but also to provide a positive example on what can be achieved in quite modest urban surroundings.
With the recession in full swing more and more people are growing their own fruit and vegetables but what if you don’t have a garden or even a backyard?
See how to grow fruit and vegetables in containers at these weekly gardening sessions at the Sumac Centre. All welcome to learn, practice or help with organic, permaculture gardening.
Directions and contact details are at the Sumac Centre Website
Forest Fields Orchard had 100 fruit trees to plant in Forest Fields in 2009.
We are grateful to the late Kathleen Jannaway and the the Movement for Compassionate Living for the initial funding to establish the garden.MCL’s aims:
- To spread the vegan message and promote simple living and self-reliance as a remedy against the exploitation of humans, animals and the Earth.
- To promote the use of trees and vegan-organic farming to meet the needs of society for food and natural resources.
- To promote a land-based society where as much of our food and resources as possible are produced locally.
Other useful information is available from the Vegan Organic Network.
Vegan-organics is any system of cultivation that avoids artificial chemicals and sprays, livestock manures and animal remains from slaughter houses, with fertility maintained by vegetable compost, green manures, crop rotation, mulches, and any other method that is sustainable, ecologically viable and not dependent upon animal exploitation. …more…
5:00 pmForest Fields Food Gardening Club
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Aug4Sat
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People’s Kitchen7:00 pm – 7:00 pmA delightful dish is cooked and served at the Sumac Cafe by a different volunteer team each Saturday.
Dinner served from 7pm and you can PAY WHAT YOU WANT!
People’s Kitchen is completely run by volunteers. Help welcome from 6.30pm. Sumac Cafe Collective: To continue the success of Peoples’ Kitchen and to make decisions about it collectively come along on Friday 4th May at 6.30pm.
Example menus, recipes, pictures, reviews and other info may be found on the Veggies Diary Listing.
Roll up, roll up to volunteer for future Saturdays. From chopping veg through to heading up the menu, there are hands-on opportunities at every level for anyone wishing to find out more about vegan cookery. ‘Chefs’, cookery assistants, serfs and washers-up welcome – guidance given! Contact sumaccafe-at-riseup.net
7:00 pmPeople’s Kitchen
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Aug6Mon
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Forest Fields Food Gardening Club5:00 pm – 5:00 pmThe Forest Fields Food Gardening Club is in session again, currently on Mondays from 5pm at Sumac’s garden, which is organic and laid out to show the best use of a small space. It is full of ideas you could use in your own garden.
We can share seedings and materials. Local food production is an important part of a low carbon society.
Any time you can spare to help build this community resource is greatly appreciated. Your chance to get involved with exciting urban food project! We want to encourage, support and learn about food growing in Forest Fields. Drop in and help with the Sumac garden or discuss your growing needs.
See “Sumac Garden Project” photo report at Notts Indymedia.
The Sumac Garden has been much improved, with more asphalt being dug up and ‘raised beds’ have been built. Many, many pots and seeds planted in the new poly greenhouse.Volunteers have obviously put in the hours here. The objective, not just to grow food for the Sumac itself ….. but also to provide a positive example on what can be achieved in quite modest urban surroundings.
With the recession in full swing more and more people are growing their own fruit and vegetables but what if you don’t have a garden or even a backyard?
See how to grow fruit and vegetables in containers at these weekly gardening sessions at the Sumac Centre. All welcome to learn, practice or help with organic, permaculture gardening.
Directions and contact details are at the Sumac Centre Website
Forest Fields Orchard had 100 fruit trees to plant in Forest Fields in 2009.
We are grateful to the late Kathleen Jannaway and the the Movement for Compassionate Living for the initial funding to establish the garden.MCL’s aims:
- To spread the vegan message and promote simple living and self-reliance as a remedy against the exploitation of humans, animals and the Earth.
- To promote the use of trees and vegan-organic farming to meet the needs of society for food and natural resources.
- To promote a land-based society where as much of our food and resources as possible are produced locally.
Other useful information is available from the Vegan Organic Network.
Vegan-organics is any system of cultivation that avoids artificial chemicals and sprays, livestock manures and animal remains from slaughter houses, with fertility maintained by vegetable compost, green manures, crop rotation, mulches, and any other method that is sustainable, ecologically viable and not dependent upon animal exploitation. …more…
5:00 pmForest Fields Food Gardening Club -
Sumac Centre Meeting7:30 pm – 9:30 pmMeeting (usually) on first Monday monthly for all supporters of the Sumac Centre.
To get involved just drop by and join in!
There is a standard agenda, other business may be raised on the night, or contact us.
There is an archive of notes from the past meetings, to be transferred to the proposed new sumac website.
We aim to use a consensus process, to work creatively to include everyone decision-making . To find out more about this, see the Groups and Meetings briefings at Seeds for Change.
See also Sumac’s Secondary Rules and Ethical Policies.If you can’t make it to the meetings, subscribe to a SumacNews announcements email list.
7:30 pmSumac Centre Meeting
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Aug8Wed
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Derby Animal Rights8:00 pm – 8:00 pmDerby Animal Rights addresses the issues of animal rights, protection and welfare. If you feel passionately about the rights of animals or would like to find out more about the group then come along to one of our meeting or contact us.
We are also on Facebook and are part of the Midlands Animal Rights Coalition
We meet to network activities, as a social gathering and to discuss current campaigns at 8pm the Brewery Tap, 1 Derwent Street, Derby DE1 2ED, in the Royal Room (upstairs).
8:00 pmDerby Animal Rights
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