Squatters Digest and Social Centre Bulletin

[Rob Ray]

Thought I'd put this up as not everyone follows the various Freedom Press social media accounts (you monsters) but we have two semi-regular columns in particular which are aimed at keeping people informed on squatting and anarcho-adjacent social centre activities which I thought might be worth pointing to for Urban readers once in a while:

The Social Centre Bulletin [latest] [tag]

Squatter's Digest [latest] [tag]

 

[ska invita]

I was thinking it would be good to have a list of what's out there in the country and that first link does just that

Social Centres to check out
Birmingham
The Warehouse Cafe

Bradford
The 1 in 12 Club

Brighton
Cowley Club

Bristol
BASE

Cardiff
Gentileza

Edinburgh
ACE (Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh)

Glasgow
GAS (Glasgow Autonomous Space )

Hull
Ground

Leeds
Wharf Chambers

Liverpool
Next to Nowhere

London
56a Infoshop
DIY Space For London
LARC (London Action Resource Centre)
The Common House
The Field
Sylvia’s Corner
MayDay Rooms
Decentre
The Feminist Library

Manchester
Partisan Collective

Newcastle Upon Tyne
Star and Shadow

Nottingham
Sumac Centre

Oxford
Oxford Action Resource Centre

Sheffield
HeartCure Collective

 

[ska invita]

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[Rob Ray]

The Social Centre Bulletin: The Ups and Downs of the Cwtch

Squatters Digest: To our friends, and former room-mates

 

[ska invita]

I was thinking it would be good to have a list of what's out there in the country and that first link does just that

Social Centres to check out
Birmingham
The Warehouse Cafe

Bradford
The 1 in 12 Club

Brighton
Cowley Club

Bristol
BASE

Cardiff
Gentileza

Edinburgh
ACE (Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh)

Glasgow
GAS (Glasgow Autonomous Space )

Hull
Ground

Leeds
Wharf Chambers

Liverpool
Next to Nowhere

London
56a Infoshop
DIY Space For London
LARC (London Action Resource Centre)
The Common House
The Field
Sylvia’s Corner
MayDay Rooms
Decentre
The Feminist Library

Manchester
Partisan Collective

Newcastle Upon Tyne
Star and Shadow

Nottingham
Sumac Centre

Oxford
Oxford Action Resource Centre

Sheffield
HeartCure Collective

Met someone from Aberdeen who mentioned this now exists

Aberdeen Social Centre

 

[Red Sky]

Be good to have an overview of how the U.K social centre has worked out.

 

[chilango]

One has just been opened up in Reading.

 

[LDC]

Wharf Chambers is a rented bar, a workers co-op and friendly to some types of politics, but really stretching the definition of a social centre.

 

[stolinski]

i've been enjoying both the squatters digest and the social centre update!!

does anyone know why Cwtch was called that? I dunno even how you would pronounce it...

 

[stolinski]

Wharf Chambers is a rented bar, a workers co-op and friendly to some types of politics, but really stretching the definition of a social centre.

i always find it an interesting question what makes up a social centre as compared to a different project eg infoshop, bike repair workshop and so on. i guess for me a place becomes a social centre when it is multi-use. i haven't been to wharf chamber since it was the common place social centre, maybe they just held onto the term from that time...

 

[editor]

i've been enjoying both the squatters digest and the social centre update!!

does anyone know why Cwtch was called that? I dunno even how you would pronounce it...

'Cwtch' is a snug or a cuddle in Welsh.

 

[stolinski]

'Cwtch' is a snug or a cuddle in Welsh.

huh TIL, fanx

 

[kenny g]

'Cwtch' is a snug or a cuddle in Welsh.

Urban Dictionary: cwtch - how to pronounce I do not know!

 

[stolinski]

Urban Dictionary: cwtch - how to pronounce I do not know!

hahaha if you click the speaker icon on that link there is an audio version

wow what can i say? it's much angrier than i thought

 

[ddraig]

ska invita
The Cardiff one, link don't work isn't really a social center more cafe/bar/arts space
It's good and run by sound people