Peanut Gallery
Please Note: The Peanut Gallery is currently closed due to an infestation of fruit flies. We are currently in discussions with the new Equality and Diversity Officer, Charlie Hopper, to decide what to do with the space in 2011 to 2012.
In March 2008, with help from Campaign and Democracy Support (CDS), a group of students at Leeds University Union (LUU) got together to create their very own social centre, now known as the Peanut Gallery.
Like other social centres, the Peanut Gallery provides a space to discuss ideas, plan strategic and effective actions, nurture grass-roots campaigns and promote alternative ways of living based on autonomy, solidarity and mutual aid.
In the space you can use a kettle to make tea or coffee, warm up your food in a microwave, relax in the cafe, meet like-minded people, use a photocopier to make campaign flyers, use the internet on the computers, use the meeting space, take clothes from the free shop, take books from the library and store campaign materials.
The Peanut Gallery is run by a collective of student volunteers who you can join as an equal member and help steer the space based on consensus decision making.