Hastings Museum & Art Gallery Needs Your Votes
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery is in the running to be crowned the Best Educational Day Out in London and South East by Day Out with the Kids. The museum was shortlisted after a record number of nominations and comes…
Solidaridad With Colombia And All Of Latin America
By Rod Webb With the changing political landscape in the UK, trade unions are likely to become a more prominent feature of everyday life. Now, after years of austerity, there is a revived interest in the voice of the workers…
Return Of The Sierra Leone Music Quiz – Today Friday!
By Rod Webb Hastings Sierra Leone Friendship Link’s ever popular Music Quiz returns to St Paul’s School, Horntye Road for the fourth time at on 20th September. Regularly attracting large crowds and committed quizzers, these memorable occasions have raised several…
Help In The Community In Tanzania With Raleigh International
We are all familiar with gap years where school leavers take a year off before university or employment to experience the world. HIP talked to Hannah Crook from Battle who is planning to work in Tanzania for three months next…
East Sussex to Paris by Bike: A Gruelling Way To Raise Money
Care for the Carers CEO completes bike ride in aid of unpaid carers to celebrate the charity’s 30th Anniversary and in memory of her father, Keith Twist. On Saturday 24th August, Care for the Carers’ CEO Jennifer Twist set off from…
Hastings Pantry Moves To Permanent Home
The town centre food pantry project, which helps people on low incomes with essential food, has now moved from Middle Street to its new premises in Dorset Place next to Hastings Furniture Service. It opened to the public last Friday…
A Woodland Performance
By Caf Fean Local arts company, Dens & Signals, recently collaborated with RSPCA Mallydams to run a summer performance project for 10-11 year-olds from Hastings. Supported by professional makers, the young people had five days to explore the woods, come…
COMMUNITY LEDGE #4: Alan Turing
This month we are honouring Alan Turing as our Community Ledge. Although he has won many plaudits, including BBC2’s ‘Greatest man of the 20th Century’, fewer people are aware of his early life in St Leonards. The interview is of…
Community Funded Solar Power Plan For Local Schools
Energise Sussex Coast, a not-for-profit community group fighting fuel poverty and the climate crisis, is forming a new cooperative to fund solar panels on local schools. This community-owned, renewable electricity and energy saving initiative will generate 400KW of power on…
Citizens Advice As Adult Education And Empowerment
As Citizens Advice 1066 celebrates its 80th birthday, Mike Ryan gives a personal view as an Adviser for seven years. The organisation has been serving the country since 1939 and our statistics and campaigns are respected and frequently heeded by…