Glossop Labour Club

Glossop Labour Club Glossop Labour Club is an independent social club home to people who share a progressive outlook on To become a member pop in and collect a form from the bar.

Events and community

We are at the heart of a vibrant community in Glossop. Regular activities at the club include a Folk Club on Tuesdays and an informal music session on Fridays. We are home to a walking group, a reading group, a women's group and a knitting group. The Glossop Folk Train visits us once a month and we host Glossop Record Club for all you Vinyl junkies. We are a community space

and we host a number of groups including the Glossop Guild, Samba Band, a Creative Writing group, Zumba, Peace Group, People's Kitchen and many others. History

The club was founded in 1906 by some of Glossopdale's leading trade unionists, co-operators and suffragettes. They were young and enthusiastic socialists and were extremely active politically in the valley. Throughout our history we have been home to people from all the various traditions on the left and to people with no party political affiliation. Membership

Whilst many of our activities are open to the public, we are a members club. Our normal membership is called a 'social' membership and costs just £5 a year. Once you've been a member for a year you can apply for full membership which entitles you to vote in elections and to stand for committee. Principles

We are proud of our socialist history and expect members to abide by our principles of equality and liberty for all. We do not tolerate sexism, racism or any form of hatred towards minority groups. page rules

This is an open page designed primarily to promote the activities of Glossop Labour Club. We do not allow posts that

• include personal attacks or are aggressive to others
• use language that most people would find offensive
• are inflammatory, libellous, hateful, threatening, act in a way to cause harassment or that incite violence
• are racist, sexist, misogynistic or fascist
• promote commercial products/services/surveys
• misrepresent or make false accusations about Glossop Labour Club
• are not relevant to the activities and purpose of Glossop Labour Club
• are repetitive

If someone breaches these rules we reserve the right to remove posts or block people from using the page.

05/08/2026

Chilli Jam
There are no more tickets left for the gig on Saturday.

28/07/2026

Glossopdale, need your help.
One of our members, Nancy Irwin, has been building "Discover
Glossopdale", a free place to find everything our dale has to offer in one spot: community help and support, groups and activities, what's on, and local services and trades. It links straight to each group's own page, so nothing stays hidden away. There appears to be 30-40 things going on per day !!! If your group or business is not there, it only takes a few minutes to get it on.

She is asking for feedback actually works for you. Please have a look, then tell us three quick things the 2-minute poll:
1. Could you find what you were looking for?
2. What was missing, or hard to find?
3. What would make you come back and use it again?
Visit the site here: www.discoverglossopdale.org
Quick poll here: www.discoverglossopdale.org/feedback/

Every answer shapes how the site develops. She set this up in recognition that we have a strong community with a huge amount of things going on .... but often you only hear about things by word of mouth. There will also be a phone app coming out in the near future. Please help to make it easier for everyone to get involved in Glossopdale :-)

Last Monday, one of our members, Nancy Irwin, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by York University for her work in susta...
27/07/2026

Last Monday, one of our members, Nancy Irwin, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by York University for her work in sustainability. She was in good company with fellow awardees being acter Suranne Jones; broadcaster Evan Davis; industrialist Narayana Murthy; Deputy Lieutenant and former High Sheriff of North Yorkshire, Francesca Horsfield; entrepreneur Lord Karan Bilimoria of Chelsea; property developer Nadim Shah and biologist Professor Baroness Katherine Willis.

Fridends and family joined her for what turned out to be an amazing event with York University playing the perfect host. Below is her profile.

Dr Nancy R Irwin is a sustainability scientist, and whilst studying at York, she formally distinguished and registered a new species of bat, once affectionately known as the Yoda bat. But when on the brink of a flourishing research career, Nancy had a catastrophic and life-threatening accident, from which she took six years to recover sufficiently enough to return to science.

Overcoming the obstacles that arose as a result of her accident, she went on to have a career that included field and development work in Papua New Guinea supporting rainforest livelihoods, biodiversity protection and community-based sustainable development.

She is Founder and CEO of AmaTerra, a management consultancy focusing on linking science, conservation and economic resilience and founded NGO NuraTerra in Papua New Guinea, to support livelihoods and capacity building.

This weeks listing of events at the Glossop Labour Club. Most events are free and you do not need to be a member to atte...
16/07/2026

This weeks listing of events at the Glossop Labour Club. Most events are free and you do not need to be a member to attend.

FRIDAY 17 JULY: EXHIBITION OF THE CLUB’S HISTORY. 7.30 pm. Glossop Labour Club, established in 1906, is one of oldest socialist clubs in the country and this year is its 120 yr anniversary. Photographs of the club’s history will be on until 31 July. Best time to view would be Friday evenings from 7 – 9pm or 30 mins before any of the events listed below.

FRIDAY 17 JULY: SOCIAL NIGHT WITH LIVE MUSIC (weekly event): from 7pm. Free Entry. Running alongside the exhibition above, the club is open every Friday for a social drink. The evening starts quietly at 7pm for those who want to play board games. It gets much busier from about 8.30 pm when people come to finish off the working week with a social drink and musicians start playing tunes in the main room at 9pm. A great place to meet new people or get stuck into a discussion.

SATURDAY 18 JULY: GIG, LOVE MUSIC HATE RACISM PRESENTS BRUCE WATSON. 7.30 for 8pm. Bruce is on tour in the UK from Australia. A renowned singer songwriter singing about social issues which range from the heart wrenching to the hysterically funny. Tickets (£10 ADV, £12 OTD) are available from the Club and from George Street Bookshop. Also online from wegottickets https://wegottickets.com/f/23232

SUNDAY 19 JULY: FILM CLUB PRESENTS “I SWEAR”. 7 for 7.30pm. Entry by donation (£4 suggested). "I Swear" is the funny, heartfelt and moving true story of Scottish Tourette's campaigner John Davidson, who was diagnosed at 15 in 1980s Britain when the condition was largely misunderstood. Set in Galashiels, it follows his journey from isolation, bullying and hostility to empowerment as he embraces his identity and inspires a more compassionate understanding of Tourette's
There will be a break for ice cream.

TUESDAY 21 JULY: (weekly event): FOLK CLUB, 8pm. Free. Friendly and inclusive and a great place to make a start if you have never played in public before.

WEDNESDAY 22 JULY: STEET VIGIL IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE. 5 pm. Norfolk Square .

WEDNESDAY 22 JULY: GLOSSOPDALE TOGETHER ALLIANCE. 7.30 pm. Discussions will include future vision, progressing ideas from the May Day Workshop, developments with Glossop Welcomes Refugees. All welcome.

THURSDAY 23 JULY: FOLK TRAIN WITH THE LAZLO BABY. 7pm. Lazlo Baby are a rabble-rousing, high-octane Balkanic folk-ska turbofolk band blending klezmer, gypsy punk and trad Irish into pounding, enthusiastic melodies. Free but all expected to buy at least one £2 raffle ticket with all proceeds going to the band. . The train leaves Manchester Piccadilly at 18.33, returning at 21.19 from Glossop. If you're coming direct to the Club, it's best to get there by 7 pm to get a seat. Once you have been to one of these, you will always come back – one big busy friendly party.

SATURDAY 18 JULY: GIG, LOVE MUSIC HATE RACISM PRESENTS BRUCE WATSON. 7.30 for 8pm. Bruce is on tour in the UK from Aus...
11/07/2026

SATURDAY 18 JULY: GIG, LOVE MUSIC HATE RACISM PRESENTS BRUCE WATSON. 7.30 for 8pm. Bruce is on tour in the UK from Australia. A renowned singer songwriter singing about social issues which range from the heart wrenching to the hysterically funny. Tickets (£10 ADV, £12 OTD) are available from the Club and from George Street Bookshop. Also online from wegottickets https://wegottickets.com/f/23232

10/07/2026

CANCELLATION: Unfortunately we have had to cancel the special Folk Train rescheduled for tomorrow. Many trains were cancelled over the last few days and it is obvious that we are going to have the same problem tomorrow. We did not anticipate that we would be in the middle of a second heat wave when we originally rescheduled.

05/07/2026
03/07/2026

Labour Club website.
If you look for our website, you won't find it. The organisation that hosted it has discontinued the service, so it is unavailable.
We're working on trying to get a website up and running again, but it might take some time.
Sorry!

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