page_title: Sumac Centre
section_title: Move to new building
hierarchical_section_title: Sumac Centre / History / Move to new building
context_page_description: The Sumac Centre is an independent community and social centre in Nottingham, UK. It is a secondary co-operative and a member of Radical Routes. It provides resources, meeting spaces and workshops for groups and individuals. It supports campaigning for human rights, animal rights, the environment, peace and co-operation worldwide. It is part of the UK Social Centre Network. Veggies is based at the centre.
  The centre receives no regular funding, the core groups each pay rent that goes toward the mortgage and running costs. Some of the groups are run by volunteers.
  Its origins can to traced to the Rainbow Centre, which was established in 1984.
context_section_description: The Rainbow Centre was in a row of buildings that was poorly maintained by the landlord. The rent and building condition were a drain on the collective's finances and enthusiasm. To resolve these problems, in Autumn 2000, the members of the Rainbow Centre and Veggies began to researching the possibility of buying a building of their own. In June 2001 they purchased, via a mortgage, a former Ukrainian Social Club in the Forest Fields, Nottingham. A year later, in June 2002, the renovation of the building was complete and the centre, having adopted the new name and identity of the Sumac Centre, was opened.
caption: Volunteers fit new windows
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