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Knit your own community
Knitting Yarns is a new drop-in group aimed at both experienced and beginner level knitters. Chat, knit and enjoy drinks and excellent cake at the Sugar Pie Honey Buns café,…
Free Hastings WiFi Network Upgraded
Hastings’ free WiFi network has been renewed for another three years, giving residents, visitors, event organisers and businesses near an antenna unlimited free access to a high-speed WiFi network is…
Free Baby Books Waiting to be Collected
Families with children under 12 months are being encouraged to collect their Bookstart free baby books. The baby packs are usually gifted to new parents by their health visitor at…
Growing together at St Michael’s Hospice
ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE: Live life as fully as possible with support from St Michael’s Hospice. Growing Together is part of the Wellbeing Programme at St Michael’s Hospice. The programme focuses on…
OPINION
Healthcare in Hastings The news is currently full of stories about food supply shortages – although I haven’t personally encountered that, perhaps because we tend to buy locally where there…
Private Housing Boom, Public Dissent
Detailed plans for the building of 151 new homes plus a community centre and major supermarket on the former Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) office-block at Ashdown House were…
Journey Into Artier Space
By Nick Pelling West Street, in Old Town, has always been somewhat eclipsed by its popular, parallel partner, George Street. But, nestled in at 31a West Street, is the fabulous…
Sanctuary in the Sun
By Nick Pelling The sun shone on the Hastings Sanctuary festival and the general multitude of people seemed to be enjoying themselves and the music. But it would be very…
From Sneeky Peeks to Full Streets
HIP talks to Vannessa Mann about how she came to map St Leonards and beyond. What gave you the idea of creating a map of the town?I’m fascinated by the…
Sleep Out to Help Out
The Seaview Project in St Leonards is organising a fund-raising Big Sleep which asks for volunteers to sleep out and raise money for the town’s most vulnerable people, particularly those…
Old Town, New Hope
By Nick Pelling Hastings Old Town is about to become home to an exciting new community centre. ‘The Nest’ is to open the doors of the Old Town Hall building…
All Kinds of Everything
By Nick Pelling Hastings Old Town is rarely confused with the antique lands of mystic Arabia. But there is actually a kingdom of Serendip just round the corner from the…
Hastings Festival of Sanctuary
Musicians and artists join a day of community, creativity and hope By Nick Pelling The Festival of Sanctuary sends a simple message of welcome, with some of Hastings’ best musicians…
Hastings to Host UK’s First ‘Palestine on the Pier’ Event
Hastings is to host the UK’s first ever Palestine on the Pier – a celebration of the best of Palestinian culture including food, music, dance, storytelling, handicraft and children’s activities.…
Hastings Commons Diary
A semi-regular round-up of everything going on in the Hastings Commons By Andrew Myers What is the Hastings Commons? It’s a place – a collection of buildings in the America…
Let’s Go Round Again
By Nick Pelling Traditionally, fairground folk have not had a good press. They have generally been seen as travelling types who somehow live a ‘dodgy’ sort of lifestyle. But a…
A Sense of a Beginning
By Nick Pelling Autumn can seem all about slow endings, but why not kick-start something new? Starting in September, Charlie Crabb’s Hastings Bookshop is bringing the Irish short story writer,…
Festival set to wow Hastings!
Frock up Friday had a modest start. In fact it began because Bev Francis and Susan Simms “just like dressing up”. As Bev said in an article in HIP last…
Francesca Inskipp: Intrepid Explorer of Life
By Jane Metcalfe I had known Francesca for many years and more recently lived in the flat above her in Market Terrace. I would drop in on her most days…
Hot Ticket at Pett Level
By Nick Pelling On Sunday August 29th the Pett Level Independent Rescue Boat charity is holding its annual Open Day. This is not only a fun day for the family…
Enabling the Community to Live Well with Dying, Death and Loss
ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE: Being told you have a life-limiting illness can bring great anxiety and a sense of loss of control. Through the provision of palliative care services, St Michael’s Hospice…
Alfresco Dining set for Permanent Increase?
You can’t have helped noticing the number of cafes spreading out onto the pavements of Hastings and St Leonards. You’ve probably concluded it’s something to do with the pandemic but…
Take Part in Local Mental Health Consultation
People in East Sussex are invited to an extra online public meeting to have their say on proposals by the local NHS to move mental health inpatient services in Eastbourne…
Hastings Commons Diary
“The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth.” (Wikipedia) They can also…
Another Busy Month at HEART
HEART (Hastings Emergency Action Resilience Team) are pleased to announce that they are now part of the Conquest 21 Project, restoring and reinvigorating the 21 courtyards of the hospital. The…
Denis’s Party
The impact of an ‘ordinary man’ getting on with an ‘ordinary job’ can end up being extraordinary. So here at HIP we thought it fitting to cover Denis Yeo’s leaving…
Time to Go to Market
‘Freedom Day’ has been and gone, so now is the moment to make the most of the beautiful you need a day out then look no further, as there are…
Housing boom
According to data sourced from the house price index by property investment company Yes Homebuyers, residential property prices in the borough of Hastings have risen an average of per year…
Beach Shoes Combines Rock and Sole!
Visitors to the Fishermen’s Beach last week might have been baffled to see a group of people – including the Mayor, James Bacon – modelling a fancy new kind of…
Launch of Community Orchard
Church Wood Community Orchard, a new community group, has been busy planting an apple orchard in the grass area in Church Wood, the local nature reserve in Hollington. And it…
Outdoor Festivals Streets Ahead
This year’s ‘Streets’ festival kicked off with Streets of Battle on 10th July at Battle Abbey School, in the garden of the former Yesterdays’ World. Visitors enjoyed four hours of…
Happy Fifth Birthday to St Leonards Modern Goods
Over the five years that Kay Avery-Stallion has been running her store, St Leonards Modern Goods in Norman Road, she has had plenty of time to reflect on what she…
Councillors Clash over Harrow Lane Housing plans: “Ghetto”, “Nimbyism” & “Panama accounts”
Labour and Conservative councillors traded insults at a full (and live) meeting of Hastings Borough Council last week as they debated the council’s plans to build 200 new homes on…
Opening Day for Hastings Library of Things
Conceived during lockdown, it has taken time to plan and tofind the perfect venue. But the community group behind Hastings Library of Things thinks it has struck gold by getting…
Back on Track
St Michael’s Hospice challenges you to take part in their Back on Track running event, the ultimate track marathon, at the state-of-the-art Ark Alexandra running track on Saturday 2nd October.…
Funding Boost to Help Vulnerable into Work
East Sussex County Council (ESCC) has agreed funding of up to £615,000 to deliver a Supported Apprenticeship programme to create opportunities for some of the county’s most vulnerable residents. People…
Free Holiday Clubs for Children
A Holiday Food and Fun programme, funded by the Department for Education, will be serving up free activities and food to support eligible children across East Sussex during the summer…
OPINION
Communication Breakdown? The recent grassroots campaign erupting over tarmacking of some of the seafront pavement – “Civic Butchery”, according to one observer – has been a great success in getting…
Hospice fundraising events set to be a huge success
ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE: As the Covid-19 restrictions start to ease, St Michael’s Hospice are thrilled to welcome back many of their loyal and committed supporters and volunteers to their fundraising events…
Interesting People #6
Justin Greenland Before we talk about Justin as an interesting person, we should point out that a lot of people seem to be interested in him. Over the last couple…