Knitting Is Good For You
Learn a skill and make friends at the new Sugar Pie Honey Buns knitting group between each Monday evening, beginning on Monday 2nd March. If you’re already a knitter, bring needles and wool. If you’ve never knitted or have forgotten…
Wild Ponies Return
A herd of five Exmoor ponies will be returned to Hastings Country Park nature reserve this February. They form part of a mixed grazing system at the Park and, together with belted Galloway cattle, manage the wild hilly landscape of…
An Editor’s Welcome
Voicing Thoughts on ‘Thoughts and Voices’ Thoughts and Voices is a new space in HIP subtitled ‘Comment and Opinion on Matters That Matter’ and designed to house, well, exactly this! We wanted to create an open space in which people…
Creating A Local Food Network In Hastings
There are many great food projects in Hastings, from Dom’s Food Mission and Surviving the Streets to Bags of Taste, Home Ground Kitchen and Pea Pod Veg. Some work is already going on to create a local food network, so…
Josie Barnes
Her award-winning photography, Hastings fishermen and social realism Local 23-year-old photographer and film graduate, Josie Barnes, won the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery (HMAG) competition in 2019 with her insightful photograph of Hastings fisherman, Darren. Josie tells HIP the story…
HIP Environmental News
Council protects nature reserves Colin Fitzgerald, lead member for the Environment said: “Hastings Borough Council has protected the very best wildlife areas in the town by declaring them Local Nature Reserves, …high-quality open spaces for our local community to enjoy.…
Pier Update:
Council Serves Control Notice, Gulzar Woos MP Following months of complaint from local critics that the owner of the pier, Sheikh Abid Gulzar, and his management company Lions Hastings Pier Limited were failing to comply with planning conditions, building control…
LGBTQ+ = Me
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery is celebrating LGBT History Month with an exhibition highlighting the little-known history of East Sussex’s LGBTQ+ communities called LGBTQ+ = Me. This is an exhibition co-curated by young people identifying as LGBTQ+ who have been…