Today would mark the 130th birthday of the legendary figure our club is named for, Harry Cowley Who was Harry Cowley? Local Brighton working class hero Harry Cowley (also known as “The Guv’nor”) was involved in grassroots social activism from the 1920s until his death in the 1970s. He helped organise the unemployed, moved homeless […]
Curated by Tadpole Records, the Cowley Club 2021 benefit mixtape is available now for ‘pay what you feel’ download! Featuring over 50 tracks of punk, hardcore, crust, d-beat, anarcho-punk and more from bands across the world, with some exclusive tracks you won’t hear anywhere else, all in support of The Cowley Club You can listen […]
Thank you to every one of our beautiful supporters who have contributed to keeping The Cowley Club up and running! This past year has been tough for our volunteers, isolated from our comrades and community, unable to hold the events the club does best, facing uncertainty and a minority who want to see us fail. […]
The past few days has been a wild ride, seeing the support and love everyone has for our little autonomous space – we’re now only £185 away for reaching our crowdfunding target! Thank you to everyone who has contributed any amount, every one of you has made a huge difference and ensuring the club will […]
In just two days, you’ve exceeded our wildest expectations and now we are less than £1000 from reaching our target to keep The Cowley Club up and running. Every (positive) comment, repost, share and 🖤 has been a spectacular help in raising this much, and it’s all down to our awesome community of friends, supporters, […]
The past 24 hours has been absolutely overwhelming, to see the love and support from our community in Brighton and around the world in the form of the messages of support to cold hard cash, has warmed our anarchist hearts We are well on the way to keeping the club open for a long time […]
We’ve made it this far thanks to our tireless volunteers and the support of our community, but we need your help to make it through the next few months and keep The Cowley Club going until we can open up again! We’re crowdfunding just short of £5,000 to ensure we’re still here once we make […]
It’s been almost six months, but the Cowley Club is open today! For the foreseeable future, the Cowley will be open in a reduced capacity on Fridays and Saturdays as a takeaway cafe and bookshop. The Mutual Aid Vegan Foodbank is still open every Tuesday 1-3pm. We look forward to seeing you all again!
We are performing some maintenance on the club to get ready to reopen in a limited capacity towards the end of August, starting with the cafe and bookshop. We’re getting up and running from tomorrow, 8th August 2020 As always, there’s a lot of maintenance work to be done on the club, and even more […]
It has been brought to our attention that a group not affiliated with The Cowley Club have announced their intention to hold a General Meeting on Monday (18th May). We would like to make it clear that this meeting will NOT be taking place As publicised here on our website, our general meetings take place […]