Why we need your support
If you believe in the radical power of zines to uplift marginalized voices, preserve otherwise undocumented histories, and promote creativity and social justice, join us – together we can lead positive change, making DIY arts and heritage more accessible for everyone.
Every donation you make has a tangible impact on our community. Over 90% of our income depends on the generosity of people and organisations like you. Your support enables us to deliver accessible, affordable arts programmes, provide professional development opportunities, offer free arts resources, and run our library, zine archive and annual festival. Your donations pay creatives to facilitate events, cover craft materials for workshops, volunteer expenses, and accommodate access provision such as BSL interpretation, audio description, and live captioning.
Join us by making a one-off donation to us through PayPal or set up a monthly recurring gift through Patreon in support of GZL. Recurring donations allow us to budget for money we know is coming in.
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Support a volunteer for one day to archive or digitise zines in our collection.
Provide free refreshments to library and archive visitors for one week.
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Support a zine maker by buying a zine that addresses a gap in the public collection.
Repairing minor damage to a fragile zine, extending its lifespan.
Safeguard a zine with proper archival storage (acid-free folders, protective sleeves), preserving one zine in good condition for future readers.
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Provide arts and crafts materials for one event in our community arts or festival programme.
Buy enough sturdy archival storage boxes to protect up to 200 zines from damage.
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Cover the travel expenses of one library or archive volunteer for 10 weeks, so they can gain confidence, skills and experience.
Supply the Making Room with free arts and crafts materials for 1 month.
Provide free resource printing to unfunded activists and community groups engaged in consciousness raising
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Pay for one hour of captioning to make our events more accessible.
Pay for crucial repairs to the upkeep of our library space
Support a Maker in Residence for 1 week.
Here’s how your support directly makes a difference:
Join our Patreon
You can support us through Patreon, where you will have access to early bird tickets for our events, bonus content, and our monthly newsletter that’s filled to the brim with staff recommendations and general musings on pop culture and DIY. We also occasionally offer exclusive merch just for our patrons!
You make it possible to keep the UK’s largest independent zine library open, for free, to everyone in our community. You support our ability to offer pay-what-you-can, accessible events and programmes, free professional development opportunities and arts resources, and to preserve Scotland’s zine heritage.
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