BRADFORD’S 1-IN-12 CLUB has launched two parallel and complementary projects – one looking to celebrate the venue’s history and legacy; the other to raise funds to improve the premises for the future.
A co-creating session at the venue on 12 May will kick-start a new project aiming to gather memories of those who volunteered or visited the club, and honour its history. “Partnering with Home of Metal and members past and present, we’re celebrating the club’s legacy as part of the Bradford 2025 program.” Anyone who has a past connection with the 1-in-12 Club is invited to come along and share their recollections.
1-in-12 CLUB LEGACY CELEBRATION: CO-CREATING SESSION WITH HOME OF METAL
12 May 2024, 14:00 to 16:00
1-in-12 Club, 21-23 Albion Street, Bradford
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Volunteers & Contributors – we need you!
If you attended/organised/performed/volunteered at the 1 in 12 Club, we’d love to talk to you about your memories of the venue, events and the community around it. Join us for an initial co-creating session to inform a new project that will celebrate the history and legacy of the 1 in 12 Club in Bradford.
The club was formed by members of Bradford’s anarchist orientated Claimants Union in 1981. The immediate objectives of the club were to generate and sustain a social scene, accessible and affordable to both the low waged and unemployed. The expectation and hope was that this would in turn encourage the anarchist values of self-management, co-operation and mutual aid.
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Alongside being a space for it’s community it also has a long history of as one of the main locations for the UK crust and anarcho-punk scene, and in the 1990s played host to much of the country’s hardcore DIY scene, plus was the home to so much more!
Looking to the club’s future, a crowd-funding campaign has been launched aiming to raise £20k. The Club has successfully bid for a “big chunk of funding to pay for a lot of much needed building improvement”, but the release of that funding is contingent on the 1-in-12 Club raising £20k through its own independent efforts.
If the Club reaches that target, it will secure the release of £85k from ‘UK City of Culture’ funds in 2025 (the year that Bradford takes on the title).
With a commitment to making the building more accessible to all visitors, money has been allocated to “renovate the lift… create two accessible toilets, make the stage wheelchair accessible and purchase air filters.” Monies will also be spent on improved signage and street lighting, and on refurbishing the Club cafe.
A refurbishment funding appeal has been launched on the Just Giving crowdfunding platform (and, by the end of March, had already passed the £5k mark).
£20,000 to refurbish The 1-in-12 Club
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/1in12-Refurbishment
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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