The Common Place Fancy Winter Feast
13/12/08
7:30pm – 9:30pm

A meal to remember - three courses of wonderful, seasonal, tasty and indulgent food...
Tickets must be pre-booked and part/fully paid for so we know how much to cook - call Catherine on 0787 1374920 now to avoid disappointment, we can only feed 30! Tickets - £10 (includes free entry to the ball)
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The Common Place Winter Ball
13/12/08
9:30pm – 3:00am

Featuring:
Bands - D MIllard, Theatre Under Fire + more tbc
DJ's - Gremlyn (Defibrillator) + Jazzy Jim + more

Plus there'll be food, dancing and fun in abundance!
Door £5

Our fundraising / solidarity CD and our vegan recipe book are now available

Click here for the different way you can donate and get your copies

We are now accepting PayPal & credit card donations

Want to know what's on the CD?

Sign the online petition to tell the council how rubbish it'll be if they don't give us our license back!

Do it here!

Do it now!

The Common Place has had its club premises license withdrawn by the Council.

We are in the process of appealing against their decision, but in the meantime, the club is unable to hold licensed events (gigs, club-nights, films, plays) & we can't sell alcohol. As a result we have lost a significant proportion of our normal income and we may face closure in the next few months. Whether we're successful with our appeal or not, we simply won't be able to afford to keep the centre open unless we can raise enough money through other means.

In recent weeks, a few sub-groups have formed to come up with innovative ways to support the centre:

• a benefit CD, as a celebration of all the great music events we've had at the Common Place over the years, with the generous support of artists who believe as we do that the Common Place is a valuable and unique community resource.

• various special events & fundraisers (through the use of Temporary Event Notices), with music, films, food, and sale of alcohol – keep an eye on the website for upcoming fun.

However, this is unlikely to be enough in our current financial situation.

If you want to see The Common Place stay open then we really need your help.

How can you help?

At the 'non visioning' meeting there was lots of talk about needing to change how the Common Place is organised. The outcome was to set up a working group to look into different structures that would help us meet aims in a more sustainable way.

Anyone interested in looking into this please email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

On 30th July we had our license withdrawn. This means that The Common Place will continue to function, but some things are not allowed. These are:

• Performance of dance
• Exhibition of a film
• Indoor sporting event
• Performace of music (live or recorded)
• Performance of a play
• Provision of facilities for dancing
• Sale by retail of alcohol

We had a meeting on 31st July to decide how to respond to this - minutes will be circulated - but for the time being, please consider all licensed events to be cancelled.

If you have any change of venue information, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and we'll put it up on this website.

Sunday Brunch at The Common Place
Every Sunday 1pm - 3pm.
(Definitely until June 15th, but if you want it to carry on we need more volunteers!)

Come down and get a plate of tasty food for £2.50! We also have tea, coffee and fruit juice available.

Download a flyer here

The two computers nearest the kitchen area have been liberated from proprietary software, and are now running entirley free software.

They have been configured to be more reliable than last time. Data will not be saved between sessions so put it on a floppy/usb stick/CD-R/zip disk if you want to keep it (all these now work.) If you want a proper user account, ask and I'll set one up.

 Update: The other 2 computers will 'dual boot' into either Ubuntu or Windows. So you can still be oppressed if you want to.

 Any questions/feedback to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

As you can see, we've got a new website. Some of the information here has been written afresh, some has been cobbled together from the old website. What we need now is for all of the user groups, working groups, collectives, etc. to check that there's an accurate item about them. If there isn't, please write one and email it to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it