UK Social Centre Network

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The UK Social Centre Network is a grass roots initiative to establish a network between self identified radical independent social and community centres in the United Kingdom. There is no single policy statement but clearly a general desire to improve communication and co-operation between the growing number of autonomous spaces "to share resources, ideas and information".^[1]. Self selected participants draw a clear distinction between their radical autonomous spaces on one side and the state or large NGO sponsored community centres on the other. While there has been something of a tradition of social spaces in occupied buildings (also known as squatting), recent years have seen an upsurge in the creation of social centres in rented or purchased buildings. The network of social centres network in the UK is very much in its infancy compared to some other places in Europe such as Holland, Italy or Spain.

Contents 1 List of social centres 2 Occasional Social Centres 3 Resource Centres 4 See also 5 External links 6 References

[edit] List of social centres

Name	Place	Address	Website
1 in 12 Club	Bradford	21 Albion Street	http://www.1in12.com/
Georges X Chalkboard	Glasgow	34 Clarendon Place (closed)	http://georgesxchalkboard.blogspot.com/
The Common Place	Leeds	23-25 Wharf Street	http://www.thecommonplace.org.uk/
The Basement	Manchester	24 Lever Street (off Piccadilly Gardens) (closed)	http://thebasement.clearerchannel.org/new/
The Casa / Initiative Factory	Liverpool	29 Hope Street	http://www.initfactory.gn.apc.org/
Section Six	Norwich	Duke St	http://www.myspace.com/wherewillitbe
The Sumac Centre	Nottingham	245 Gladstone Street, Nottingham	http://www.sumac.org.uk
Kebele Cultural Project	Bristol	14 Robertson Road	http://www.kebelecoop.org
People's Autonomous Destination (PAD)	Cardiff	homeless at the moment!	http://www.thepad.wordpress.com
rampART Creative and Social Centre	London	15-17 Rampart Street	http://www.rampart.co.nr
The Cowley Club	Brighton	12 London Road	http://www.cowleyclub.org.uk
Freedom Press	London	84b Whitechapel Hihgh Street (Angel Alley)	http://www.freedompress.org.uk/

[edit] Occasional Social Centres

• Matilda, Sheffield
• Peoples Autonomous Destination (PAD), Cardiff
• The Square Social Centre, London. (Dissolution announced July 1, 2006).
• - A-Spire, Leeds
• Next To Nowhere, Liverpool

[edit] Resource Centres

• Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
• Lancaster Resource Centre, Lancaster
• Blackcurrent Centre, Northampton
• Oxford Action Resource Centre, Oxford
• 56@ Infoshop, London
• London Action Resource Centre, London

[edit] See also

• The Forest - A social centre and arts space in Edinburgh

[edit] External links

• Social Centres Network Website
• Social Centre Network Newsgroup
• LARC website on the Social Centre Network
• Indymedia UK Free Spaces section
• Squatters Advisory Service

[edit] References