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About this project
Help us renovate and equip our future social centre
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Imprastraktura
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Bathrooms
Materials and Construction of two bathrooms including three toilet cubicles, double sinks and sanitary fittings.
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€ 8.599 | |
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Kitchen
Construction and installation of the kitchen extraction and smoke ventilation system.
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€ 7.000 | |
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Stage for the multipurpose room
Construction and installation of a raised wooden stage platform.
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€ 2.849 |
Materyal
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Industrial kitchen equipment
Professional kitchen equipment including cooker, dishwasher, oven, upright freezer, refrigerated storage unit, extractor hood, grill plate, aluminium worktops, cupboards, shelving and coffee machine.
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€ 7.980 | |
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Industrial kitchen utensils and cookware
Professional cookware and kitchen utensils including pots, pans, pressure cooker, trays, baking moulds and knife sets.
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€ 1.749 | |
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Bookshop furniture
Furniture for the bookshop including wall-mounted shelving, customer service desk and chairs.
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€ 2.370 | |
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Furniture for the Multipurpose Room
Seating equipment for the main hall with capacity for 100 people, using stackable or folding chairs.
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€ 2.990 | |
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Classroom furniture
ables and chairs for classrooms and office spaces, including: 7 folding tables (approx. 120x80 cm), 42 folding chairs, 2 wall-mounted whiteboards with aluminium frames
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€ 3.691 | |
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Audio and visual equipment for the multipurpose hall
Basic sound and projection equipment for the hall, including sound desk, speakers, projector and screen.
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€ 3.250 | |
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Kitchen refurbishment materials
Tiles and flooring materials for kitchen walls and floors.
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€ 2.500 | |
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Shopfront and shutters
Laminated safety-glass shopfront and galvanised steel roller shutters.
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€ 7.280 | |
| Total | € 15.599 | € 50.258 |
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General information
The project
This project is about renovating and equipping our future social centre. After more than a decade organising for social rights and collective dignity, this new space represents both a reaffirmation of our political commitment and a long-term investment in the neighbourhood, its people, and the struggle for a decent life for everyone.
To make it possible, we are purchasing a new premises that will become the future home of La Villana de Vallekas, which will also need extensive renovation and equipment.
The new centre will host the activities of the many collectives that have spent over ten years organising around social and neighbourhood-based unionism, fighting for better living conditions and rights across every aspect of life: labour rights, housing, education, healthcare, culture, food sovereignty, gender and sexual diversity, anti-racism, and much more.
The new social centre will also include two community-based economic projects: the Veguiterráneo vegan tavern-restaurant and the Mala Letra bookshop. Alongside promoting the social and solidarity economy, these projects will help strengthen the social centre as an open political and community space rooted in the neighbourhood.
Where are we?
Our new social centre will remain in Puente de Vallecas, a working-class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Madrid shaped by deep social and economic inequalities that directly intersect with the struggles of our collectives.
At the same time, Vallecas has a long history of neighbourhood organising, labour struggles, anti-repression movements and community solidarity. Both long-standing and newer collectives continue updating that tradition in response to today’s social realities.
How do we organise?
Our political practice combines mutual aid, direct action, legal self-defence and the creation of collective resources.
We push back against the isolation and individualism imposed on us, identify those responsible for the conditions we face, fight for universal improvements in rights, and work to improve the everyday lives of those involved in struggle. We believe utopia is built collectively, day by day.
We like to think of ourselves as neighbourhood unions: a blend of social unionism that combines housing, healthcare, labour, education and food struggles. All organised at neighbourhood level, capable of bringing people together and strengthening collective self-organisation.
Our structure is assembly-based. The assembly is where representation, organisation and decision-making happen, grounded in collective work, horizontality and cooperation.
Main features and goals of the crowdfunding campaign
We’re moving in order to grow
Our current social centre is no longer large enough to sustain all the struggles, collectives and needs we face as we continue fighting for people’s rights and building communities rooted in resistance, mutual aid, care and emotional support.
At the same time, we continue to face constant threats linked to property speculation that put the future of our social centre at risk.
For this reason, the main goals of this project are:
- To expand the size of our social centre and improve the space and its facilities, allowing us to host more collectives, activities and forms of organising.
- To increase our visibility by moving to a more central and accessible location within the neighbourhood, both in terms of the premises itself and its surroundings.
- To strengthen the services and resources available in the neighbourhood by integrating community-based economic projects that also reinforce our political and social activity.
At La Villana de Vallekas, we have built far more than a political meeting space. It has become a reference point for alternative culture and community life, a place of collective and self-directed learning grounded in lived experience, and a space for non-commercial forms of social connection — hosting everything from talks, workshops and gatherings to film screenings, yoga and pilates classes.**
Who we are**
Inside La Villana you can find a broad and diverse network of collectives connected to popular education (Spanish classes for migrants and women-only groups, educational support through Escuelita Villana, and the political education space Escuela de Periferias); neighbourhood organising and housing struggles (PAH Vallekas, Platform for People Affected by Mortgages); social ecology, agroecology and food sovereignty movements (Bahllekas – Bajo el Asfalto está la Huerta, Huerta Pepines consumer group, and Despensa Solidaria); independent community media (Radio Vallekas); healthcare access initiatives (Yo Sí, Sanidad Universal); LGBTQIA+ organising (Orgullo Vallekano); affordable therapeutic support (Pan y Rosas); feminist organising (Lobas Vallekas); sport as a tool for social transformation (Club Deportivo Puerto de Vallecas); and other cultural and wellbeing groups, including yoga, pilates and the Cine Villano film cycle.
In parallel, alternative forms of work and collective livelihoods have also emerged through the social and solidarity economy:
- The Veguiterráneo Cooperative, a vegan tavern and catering project committed to a social and economic model grounded in respect for human rights, animal rights and environmental sustainability, through local, responsible, ecological and fair-trade consumption.
- Mala Letra Bookshop, the association that will run the future bookshop within the new social centre. The project emerged as an extension of Escuela de Periferias and forms part of a broader political vision focused on sharing the collective knowledge generated through our struggles and organising practices.
What we need
As mentioned above, the new phase of La Villana centres around purchasing a premises that will become our future social centre. It will host the collectives and activities already forming part of the project, alongside the Veguiterráneo tavern-restaurant and the Mala Letra bookshop.
We are fully self-managed and receive no institutional funding. At present, the rent for our current space and the many costs linked to our activities are sustained through the contributions of our members and supporters.
Moving into a new space will inevitably increase those costs, and we need collective financial support to ensure that La Villana can continue growing and become a reality in a larger and more politically ambitious space. We have chosen to think big: we are purchasing a 330-square-metre premises supported by the community we have built over the last decade.
Even so, that alone is not enough. Through this crowdfunding campaign, we aim to raise the resources needed to renovate the new premises, which has stood abandoned for a long time and requires major refurbishment, including:
- Electrical installation
- Acoustic insulation
- Energy-efficiency improvements (insulation, new windows, aerothermal systems and solar panels)
- Accessibility improvements and redesign of the space to better support community use and coexistence
- Bathroom renovation
- Kitchen installation and adaptation
- Purchase of equipment and furnishings
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Why this is important
One of the main goals of La Villana de Vallekas is to strengthen and expand the neighbourhood’s community networks. That is why our doors are open to everyone in the area, from children to the elderly, both as a space for collective organising, where people can come together to confront shared problems and defend their rights, and as a space for connection and social life beyond commercial exchange, where we can meet, build relationships and create lasting networks of care and solidarity.
Alongside participating in the educational, cultural, political and leisure activities organised within the centre, people are also encouraged to shape them, contribute new ideas and develop new proposals of their own. We want to create forms of culture and collective life that truly belong to us, where people are active participants rather than passive spectators.
The centre is also a place where people can connect with the collectives based there and become involved in their different projects and struggles.
This project also speaks to broader social movements. Over the past ten years, we have continued growing by building alliances, welcoming new collectives and supporting projects that emerged through encounters within the social centre itself — and we fully intend to keep doing so.
Since 2007, before becoming La Villana de Vallekas, we existed as the Oficina de Derechos Sociales de Seco within Centro Social Seco.
It was there that we launched initiatives such as the Spanish classes for adults, which continue to this day, alongside many other projects including solidarity funds, workers’ cooperatives, a travelling tavern, legal self-training workshops on migration law, labour rights workshops and the rapeadero community space. All projects that responded to the needs and political moment of that time.
Following the political momentum unleashed by the 15M movement and the renewed importance of neighbourhood organising, La Villana de Vallekas was founded in 2013 with the aim of creating a space open to the needs, struggles and political aspirations of local residents.
Now we want to keep growing. This project is part of a much longer collective journey; one that continues to bring more and more people together every year.
To make it possible, we currently rely on a core organising team of 30 people, alongside around 200 people actively participating in the social centre and its collectives, and more than 300 people providing regular financial support through average monthly contributions of €9. Their support has sustained us so far and will continue making this next step possible.
Social commitment
Citizen participation
Our social commitments are broad, interconnected and rooted in everyday community life:
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We understand health as a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing. Access to high-quality universal healthcare is a fundamental right and should never depend on someone’s economic situation, migration status, race, religion or political beliefs. This right must be guaranteed for everyone. At La Villana de Vallekas, we have created a support group that organises to denounce the consequences of exclusionary healthcare policies and help people who have been denied access to the healthcare system.
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We believe that guaranteeing inclusive, equitable and high-quality education — alongside lifelong learning opportunities for all — is essential to a dignified life and individual development, as well as a key tool in reducing poverty and inequality. At our social centre, this work takes shape through two main initiatives: Spanish-language classes that provide practical language support while creating spaces for cultural exchange and new ways of understanding the world, and Escuelita Villana, which supports primary and secondary school students in the subjects where they face the greatest difficulties.
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For us, feminism must be broad and diverse, but always anti-racist, trans-inclusive and anti-capitalist. We are committed to confronting sexism and all forms of patriarchal violence. That is why we believe in the urgent need for comprehensive sex and relationship education and feminist forms of justice. We want a more caring and beautiful world that places life and care work at its centre. We are driven by the need for deep social change that genuinely rejects violence against women and all oppressed bodies, while demanding meaningful and lasting feminist policies.
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We are committed to promoting the social and solidarity economy through our two community-based economic projects. These initiatives aim not only to generate fair and sustainable livelihoods, but also to strengthen social integration, support community needs and contribute to specific social and environmental goals rooted in solidarity and collective wellbeing.
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We believe in responsible, sustainable and local production and consumption as essential tools for confronting climate change. Through food cooperatives and grassroots community projects, we promote horizontal organisation, self-management, food sovereignty and agroecology. We believe another model of consumption is possible: one that is ecological, supportive and based on direct relationships between producers and consumers through short supply chains.
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Climate change is already irreversible in many ways, and drastically reducing emissions is now urgent if we are to slow global warming. Our goal is to bring climate struggle into the neighbourhoods themselves by identifying the environmental conflicts that directly affect everyday life at a local level. This includes issues such as waste management and incineration, the need for reliable and accessible public transport in the south of Madrid, and the specific climate impacts of urban life. Tackling climate collapse is not only about large governmental agreements; it also requires building a feminist, anti-racist and socially just world from below, grounded in collective organisation and redistribution of wealth.
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To achieve all of these goals, we believe it is essential to build strong neighbourhood alliances around a shared systemic vision for social transformation.
Sustainable Development Goals
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No poverty
Economic growth must be inclusive to provide sustainable jobs and promote equality.
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Climate Action
Climate change is a global challenge that affects everyone, everywhere.
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Responsible Production and Consumption
Responsible Production and Consumption
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Reduced Inequalities
To reduce inequalities, policies should be universal in principle, paying attention to the needs of disadvantaged and marginalized populations.
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Decent Work and Economic Growth
Sustainable economic growth will require societies to create the conditions that allow people to have quality jobs.
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Gender Equality
Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.
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Quality Education
Obtaining a quality education is the foundation to improving people’s lives and sustainable development.
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Good Health and Well-Being
Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being for all at all ages is essential to sustainable development.
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Zero Hunger
The food and agriculture sector offers key solutions for development, and is central for hunger and poverty eradication.
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Partnerships for the Goals
Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development