The 1 in 12 Club is crowdfunding
Weʼre raising £30,000 to refurbish The 1 in 12 Club
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Friends and comrades!
The 1 in 12 Club needs your help! We've been successful in bidding for a big chunk of funding to pay for a lot of much needed building improvement. Central to this is making the club more accessible.
To release the money, we have to do some fundraising of our own first. We need £20,000. So send what you can and please share this page around.
What?
Every four years the government names a ‘UK City of Culture’ and makes loads of public money available for culture-led regeneration. In 2025, Bradford will be UK City of Culture and the club has been provisionally granted £85,000 from the available funds.
The money has been allocated to renovate the lift at Albion Street, create two accessible toilets, make the stage wheelchair accessible and purchase air filters. There is also money to improve signage and street lighting. Also to refurb the cafe.
The lift at the club hasn’t worked for nearly 20 years. If you have visited the endearing post-industrial dive we call home, you know the stairs are far from ideal for anyone with any kind of mobility needs. The club being more accessible would mean a greater number of people and groups could use the space. It would open up what we could do and provide a much needed space for action for the people of Bradford and beyond.
Please donate towards making the club a more welcoming environment for all potential visitors. It's very much in line with our ethos of equality, solidarity and freedom. For the many, not the few.
Why?
We know that the 1 in 12 Club means a lot to a lot of people around the world. We know that autonomous community spaces like ours matter in the struggle to keep alternative, grassroots, queer culture alive. We also know that the building we’ve occupied for close to 40 years needs attention. Work done now will go a long way to securing the future of the 1 in 12.
How?
There are three potential scenarios with this call for donations:
One, we raise the £20k, which means we unlock the £85k available. We then make some serious improvements to the club. We’'ll start with the lift and other accessibility issues.
Two, we don’t make the £20k. Anything we can raise will be much appreciated. Work on the building needs to be done regardless of the £85k.
Three, we raise more than 20k! Any extra money would go to other much needed works. The Club needs a new heating system and new windows, both major and important projects.
Whatever you kindly pledge to us, whatever the outcome of the City of Culture funding, your money will be used to make the club a better, safer space for all.
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- 15 days ago
The 1 in 12 Club
15 days agoWell, thanks to all of you we smashed our original target of £20,000!!! Thank you to everyone who made it happen!! The more donations the more we can potentially do, including maybe getting heating back, a working pool table, fixed windows and maybe even an AED defibrillator! With this in mind, we’ve extended our fundraising target to £30,000. We're getting going with the original plan now but please do keep donating to enable us to do even more. Long live the club!
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May 10, 2024
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May 10, 2024
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May 10, 2024
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May 8, 2024
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The 1 in 12 Club
Liberty, Equality, Solidarity. Bradford’s anarchist social centre since 1981 hosting music, events, collectives and a safe space for all.