The Himmah Hub is a space for care, solidarity, art, and culture made by and for working-class communities and peoplea of the global majority. It is a place for encounter, growth, and exchange. Located in the heart of Hyson Green, Nottingham, The Hub hosts meeting space, exhibitions, talks, screenings, food, workshops, and music across its studio, learning space, and café.
Anti-racism can mean many things. The definition that guides Himmah's work is:
"Anti-racism is the collective work of confronting racial injustice by building community power, shifting resources, and transforming the institutions, knowledge systems, and other conditions that reproduce inequality."
In practice anti-racism is understood as the organised struggle to dismantle racial injustice by shifting power, resources, voice, and decision-making into the hands of Black, Asian, and other racialised communities.
It is class-based in its analysis and decolonial in its horizon as we know that today's racial inequalities cannot be separated from Britain's colonial past, nor from the class relations that continue to reproduce them. Our work is to confront both, while building the conditions for collective dignity, autonomy, and liberation.
Grounded in place, building solidarity
Two principles run through everything we do
Locality
Our work is deliberately local. Nottingham is not simply where we operate; it is the ground on which we build, the place whose streets, schools, hospitals, and estates shape the everyday realities our communities navigate.
Place-based organising allows us to know people by name, to follow issues from first complaint to lasting change, and to build the kind of trust that only comes from showing up consistently over years rather than projects.
By rooting ourselves in specific neighbourhoods, Broxtowe, Hyson Green, Radford, and St Ann's, we make sure strategy is shaped by lived experience, and that institutions are held to account in the very places where their decisions land.
Locality also keeps us honest, when the people most affected by an injustice are also our neighbours, abstract debate gives way to practical responsibility.
solidarity
Solidarity is the other thread that binds our work together. Racial injustice cannot be undone in isolation from the wider structures of class, migration, faith, empire, and economic exclusion that intersect with it, and the class-based and decolonial traditions of resistance we draw on have always understood this.
We therefore practise solidarity by building relationships across Black, Asian, white working-class, migrant, and refugee communities; by standing with one another's struggles; and by refusing the divisions of race, class, and colonial hierarchy that those in power rely on to keep us small.
Solidarity, for us, means recognising that liberation is collective: no community is free while another is targeted, and durable change is built when people too often pitted against each other find common cause. It is in the day-to-day work of organising in our city, sharing platforms, defending each other from harm, and building a shared political language, that solidarity becomes more than goodwill and starts to function as power.