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National HIV Testing Week
The annual awareness programme – HIV Testing Week – is part of the government’s action plan to reduce new HIV infections by 80 per cent by 2025 and eradicate new…
Refugee Buddy Project Receives ACE funding
The Refugee Buddy project has been awarded a Small Project Grant from Arts Council England to support their Refugee Week 2023. This funding will allow them to build on the…
Hastings Cat Chat
BY ANITA KELSEY Hello cat lovers! My name is Anita Kelsey and I am excited to introduce myself as the author of the new “Hastings Cat Chat” column in The…
We Want to Live Our Lives Without Fear
Hana Al Bidaq visited Hastings last week to explain how the Israeli apartheid regime affects Palestinians on a daily basis. Katy Weitz Hana Al Bidaq lives every day of her…
Peace, Passion and Poetry on Hastings MLK Day
By Merlin Betts “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.” Martin…
Community Composting Comes to Ore
By Rachel Holtom On a beautiful, sunny and crisp Saturday morning, 30 people braved the cold and went along to Ore community centre to celebrate the launch of Hastings Compost…
Local Probus Club Seeks New Members
By Ken Palen, Club Publicity Officer Probus is an abbreviation of two words, PROfessional and BUSiness, but membership is not restricted to these two groups entirely. It is a world-wide…
Hastings Remembers: Holocaust Memorial Day 2023
Hastings will host its annual Holocaust Memorial Day service at 11am on Saturday 28 January. This year the event will be held at the White Rock Theatre, Hastings, on the…
Hastings Demands the End of Execution and Immoral Detention
By Pal LuthraNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori were released on 16 March 2022 by the Islamic Republic of Deshmukh, Amnesty International UK’s CEO, said: “Nazanin and Anoosheh should never have…
Dee Parks Wheelchair for Good
Hastings care home resident and former waterbaby, Dee Howard, thought her swimming days were over following a stroke that left her needing a wheelchair. But thanks to the dedication of…
Youth Speak Out Against Violence
Merlin Betts considers Hastings and Rother Safer Community Partnerships’ latest effort to educate and inform people about domestic violence. Hastings and Rother District Councils and White Ribbon UK recently teamed…
Down Low and Living the High Life
Merlin Betts reviews High Rise Connecting Conversations, a European Cultural Foundation/EUNIC-funded installation by partners: ExploreTheArch Theatre Company in Hastings, and Seria project in Kyiv, with the co-operation of Hastings Borough…
Make Your Plan to Be Winter Ready
Director of Customer Service and Innovation Ian Cameron said: “We are sharing advice now, in the full hope that this will never be needed by our customers. Our teams work…
People of Hastings and St Leonards: Debbie Cutting
To start off the new year, HIP’s Kathryn Sutter met Debbie, a born-and-bred Hastings resident whose famous seafront boogie sessions kept many people going through the covid pandemic. We started…
Resident at Hastings Care Home Celebrates 106 Birthday
Resident Marjorie Bartlett, 106, in Cadillac Marjorie Bartlett lives at MHA Lauriston and was treated to a day full of surprises for her 106. She credits keeping bees and having…
An Appeal for Organ Donations
Anthony Clarkson, Director of Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation at NHS Blood and Transplant, calls on Hastings residents. More than 6,800 people in the UK are spending the start…
A New Greenhouse for a New Year
Alexandra Park and its wildlife give great pleasure to many Hastings residents. The greenhouse, steadily being refurbished, plays a nurturing role for the town’s various communities, and will only improve…
Council Plans to Buy Housing for Homeless
By Paul McLaughlin Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has unveiled an ambitious £11 million plan to buy up to 50 properties to provide temporary housing for local residents who need somewhere…
Hotels of Shame
Gareth Stevens uncovers the horrific truth hidden in a Hastings hotel. On November 8, the Refugee Buddy project (RBP) found out by chance that a hotel in Hastings had been…
Mary Christmas!
The Bale House Visitor Centre in Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve will be inviting children to meet, not Santa, but the even more rarely seen Mrs Claus. A specially constructed…
Deck The Hall!
Christmas Day celebrations for all at the Salvation Army Hall, Hastings “Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” — Dr. Seuss…
Community Round Up
Cozy Christmas Corner Churches all over the country have been looking at ways to offer help to those finding energy costs a struggle. St Leonards Methodist Church on Bohemia Road…
Readers’ Comments
A story that didn’t go away this year and a definite ‘to be continued…’, the issue of housing in Hastings needs tackling with urgency. Shame individual unscrupulous landlords, petition for…
People of Hastings & St Leonards
Hung Li This week Hung Li shared his story with Kathryn Sutter, discussing his role as Chairman of South East Tigers Basketball Club. Hung Li and I began our fascinating…
Barnett at odds with Starmer on housing targets
HBC council leader Paul Barnett tweeted last week that the abandonment of mandatory housing targets previously being imposed by the DLUHC was “good news”. It would allow Hastings to decide…
Isabel Blackman Centre relaunches
Thanks to the support of the Hastings Old Town community and kind backing from the surrounding area, Isabel Blackman Centre in Winding Street, Old Town, Hastings will remain open indefinitely.…
Meet the OBX!
By Caf Fean, Neighbourhood Stories Coordinator, Hastings Commons Calling all technophiles, technophobes … and those of an inquisitive disposition. The Observer Building is hosting a series of Meet the OBX…
Living with Parkinson’s: Why I joined ParkinSongsters
By Paul Greep The hall is tucked neatly behind St John’s Church, St Leonards; a few steps leading down to the entrance. I check myself – do I have enough…
Community round up
Relaunch of Hastings Dial-A-Ride Service Following the recent closure of Hastings Community Transport Ltd, CTLA (not an acronym) is pilotting a new community transport service for Hastings. The trial that…
People of Hastings & St Leonards
Al Gannon This week Kathryn Sutter went to Silverhill to meet Al Gannon, Director of Alan Gannon and Sons Funeral Directors, which he runs with the help of his family. …
Tributaries of the Same River
Toby Sims interviews Béla Ogonovsky about the way religions and belief systems can work together to engage with a shared reality. There is a certain human experience that I believe…
In search of Food and Warmth
By Rod Webb It’s been a lovely summer and beautiful warm autumn. But as cold and wet dampens the spirits, the town seems to be opening its heart to those…
Café of Sanctuary
Gareth Stevens talks to Rossana Leal and Yeser Mohammed at the Refugee Buddy Project’s new Dove Café on Bexhill Road. In a month in which a government minister conceded that…
HEART Opens New Community Info Hub
Hastings Emergency Action Resilience Team (HEART) has recently opened a Community Information Hub in the Town Hall. The Hub is a friendly space where you can talk to someone in…
Save Energy and Money Through the Winter Crisis
Energise Sussex Coast (ESC) are running a series of informative sessions throughout Novemberand into December. Home Insulation and Keeping Warm• 21 November, 7pm-8:30pm St Stephen’s Church, Newlands Avenue, Bexhill TN39…
Local Arts Cash Boost
Arts Council England has announced its 2023 to 2025 investment commitments, which include eight organisations in East Sussex who will receive a total of £ million – a 25% increase…
Death of the Council House
In the last issue of HIP, we called for further contributions to the debate about housing in Hastings and particularly the rental sector. Here HIP’s Kent Barker offers a historical…
People of Hastings & St Leonards
Tony Jane and Harley Millward This week Kathryn Sutter spoke to Tony and Harley, owners of new independent gaming shop, Table Flip, based at 201 Queens Road, Hastings. My visit…
Walking Home For Christmas
This winter, thousands of people will be Walking Home For Christmas in support of armed forces veterans across the country. The campaign, which runs from 9 to 20 December, is…
Noise cameras tested across England
Can we expect noise-detecting traffic cameras on the roads of Hastings soon? The devices are currently being trialled in Bradford, Bristol, Great Yarmouth and Birmingham in an attempt to discourage…