A New Vision For Our High Streets
In a recent article in the Financial Times, High streets face a ‘new normal with old problems’, Vidhya Alakeson, CEO of Power to Change wrote about her vision for high streets of the future. Power to Change is an important…
A Platform For Young Readers’ Voices
By Gail Borrow Catch this year’s biggest public display of young people’s art locally as ATownExploresABook20 gears up for its final weekend of exploration of H G Wells’ The Time Machine, 125 years after publication. The festival has re-emerged onto…
OPINION Kicking up a stink
I was down at the Bathing Hut café on a recent sunny weekday and took the opportunity to think about the issues involved with the proposed redevelopment of the old Bathing Pool Site. The sky was blue, the sea was…
4th July Hastings’ Own Independents’ Day
By Fiona McGarry “Independents’ Day is a not-for-profit campaign that exists “to support and promote independent retail businesses across the UK all year round, with an annual focus on 4th July”. In Hastings, the festivities are centred on White Rock…
Opportunity To Engage With The Community
Heart of Hastings is a members-led Community Land Trust: it brings spaces into community ownership, making them available to people who need them. As the property boom continues our homes stay affordable for local people with rents capped at the rate…
Fresh Look Museum
Over the past 18 months, Hastings Museum has undergone something of a transformation: first with the appointment of a new manager, Damien Etherington, and then a new team of curators. This all came with a fresh vision for the museum…
Isolation Station Hastings
Live Streaming & Good Vibes By Fiona McGarry At the beginning of lockdown, Dan Matthews was concerned that there was “nothing to connect people”. He got together with Andrew Davies, Sherry Clark and Susanne Currid and they decided to “keep…
Refugee Week 2020
By Fiona McGarry This year the theme of Refugee Week (15th-21st June) is ‘Imagine’. It’s important that we do try to imagine, so we can begin to understand how people seeking refuge in the UK are treated – very differently…
New Name Looks to the Future
We wrote in Post Pandemic Planning (HIP Issue 153) that we would continue to focus on this key issues for Hastings. Since then several more reports have emerged to join that mentioned in the article by Alastair Fairley of HEART.…
The Days that Never Came
A song for our time “In the saddest of situations, a beauty can arise, a new way of looking at the world. This song arose as a response to the times we all found ourselves in, and with the help…