Colossal Youth GY

28/07/2025

There will be a public meeting next Friday 1st August 6:30PM at Colossal Youth (now 145 King St) in Yarmouth, to talk about militarisation in the East, and the region's complicity in the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
We have all heard the increasing sounds of planes above. We have all witnessed the recruitment of young working class kids into the army. We all know there is an American company in Yarmouth that manufactures components for Israeli fighter jets. We have all been impacted by austerity and welfare cuts while the UK simultaneously gives millions of £'s worth of aid to Israel and profits millions of £ from selling arms.
Everyone welcome (except cops or fascists), there will be childcare, and food. Very sorry to say that the space is currently not wheelchair accessible, but hopefully next time it will be.
If you live in Yarmouth or East Anglia please come!

Spectrum Control, based in Great Yarmouth, is a leading supplier of electromagnetic component parts for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. These are then supplied to Israel to commit genocide in Gaza and war crimes against Palestinian and Lebanese civilians.

14/07/2025

Evening’ all! An update for you, and a rare picture of Karl doing some work! Anyway, we’d like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all of you who’ve donated to and shared our GoFundMe me page, so far we’re well over halfway to our initial target of £2000, sitting somewhere round £1250, brilliant stuff, and were touched that it means this much to you all! Plans for the first lot of money coming through are to seal all the walls first. A lot of crumbling brickwork needs some immediate attention; every time a big truck rumbles past we get another little shower of red dust falling to the floor! We’ve costed out the materials for stage power too, a dedicated electrical feed to run all the PA system, desk, amplifiers etc, plus lights on 16A feeds, with a domestic 13A spur for equipment as well, probably eating up half what we have with installation if we can get decent mates rates from a sparky! We’ve made inroads into toilet situation too, plumber is booked just in time for our hopeful opening on 6th September, and we’ve got a few materials in to tidy the place up, some paint and stuff, doors that are currently missing, and necessary hardware etc. still plenty to do, and we’ve spent everything in advance of it actually landing in the account, but a great start, feel proud of yourselves! However… we’re still short of our target, and it seems that our target was rather conservative, a bigger building needs bigger and more everything. 11,000+ views on the post for the GoFundMe and 110 shares, 10% of you shared our post, which is pretty amazing in itself! But just imagine if every one of those 11,000 views had turned into £1 for us, where would we be then? If 30% of you had shared it, how many views would that be? The response in the first 24 hours was utterly incredible, but the drop off has been sharp, it’s just a little trickle now, so, we’re humbly asking again, please share our post if you haven’t already, it will help, and it’s free to do! If you can donate though, that’s what makes it all happen! Even if it’s just a couple of quid, just as gratefully received as £200, it all adds up, we need to open as soon as we can! Pinned post at the top of the page for the link, love to you all, Colossal Youth Forever!!