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Recruiting to St Michael’s Hospice Board of Trustees
ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE: St Michael’s Hospice is one of the most loved charities in the area with an amazing team of dedicated employees and volunteers supporting people with life-limiting illnesses and…
Discovering Mental Health Solutions
Young people from across East Sussex, aged 12-20, have been involved in developing a brand-new website for Discovery College, a partnership of different organisations, headed by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation…
Women’s Voice Create a Powerful Impact
A video by Women’s Voice called This Is Not Love highlighting the realities of domestic abuse and coercive control was released on Isolation Station on 19th March. It was followed…
Living with ADHD
Following on from the Feature article in the last edition is this article on ADHD, The SEND Circle Game. By Judith Monk Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD is…
Creating Imaginary Nonsense Gardens
Hastings Thrives, an organisation that works with young peoplein Hastings to overcome barriers to learning and celebrate their achievements, has been inviting children to re-imagine their gardens with drawings and…
Pom Pom Memory Pop
You’re walking down the street, just like any other day, when suddenly a memory pops into your head from years ago. This is a ‘memory pop’. St Michael’s Hospice wants…
Living Memorial to Covid Tragedy: Calls for Suggestions
The co-founders of Hastings Emergency Action Resilience Team (HEART), are calling for a living memorial to remember the hundreds of residents and their families who have been tragically impacted by…
Owls Galore as the Town Explores Lear’s Nonsense
St Leonards-on-Sea’s biggest multi-site community festival of the year, #ATownExploresABook21, opens 1st April and runs through the Easter holiday. April Fool’s Day fun centres around the nonsense poetry project which…
Register to Vote
If you plan to have your say in the upcoming local elections on 6th May, don’t forget register – or update your details if you need to. The deadline for…
Environmental Fun in the Sun
Spring is here and if you like beachcombing as well as organis-ing and categorising things, Strandliners could be the group for you. Founded in 2012 and incorporated in 2018 as…
Helping Shape Adult Care Services
Members of the public are being encouraged to play their part in improving support services for adults in East Sussex by joining the People Bank. The East Sussex County Council…
Has Your Photograph Been In HIP?
Over the years HIP has photographed many people to illustrate articles that are published in the paper. Although we ask permission to do so at the time, some people might…
Free Self-Employment Course for Over-50s
Enterprise Junction has announced their latest free online course, starting around mid-May to early June 2021. There are 20 spaces available for male and female participants of 50 years or…
Bag your Bunny Hop goodies
As the St Michael’s Hospice Easter Bunny Hop cannot go ahead in the usual way this year, the Hospice are inviting you to buy your Bunny Hop goodie bags and…
Astonishing Results with Silent Disco
Coast Care Homes recently teamed up with the UK’s original silent disco suppliers, Silent Discos 4U to hire music equipment for their residents – with astonishing results. Residents were treated…
Sight Loss Group Continues Local Support
Despite the ongoing impact of Covid-19, the Hastings and Rother Macular Society telephone support group has continued to help local people affected by sight loss with monthly calls, and will…
Local Beauty Products win International Awards
St Leonards resident Ula Blocksage has put a lot of time and energy into creating her luxury range of skincare products, d’still but was overwhelmed to find out last week…
Another Accolade for Hastings Museum & Art Gallery
Close on the heels of being shortlisted for one award, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery has won a trophy in a second one. In 2020, the museum was shortlisted for…
Council Joins Age-Friendly Communities
Hastings Borough Council has become an official registered member of the UK Network of Age-friendly Communities, a network supported by the Centre for Ageing Better. At its full council meeting…
Make Hearts to Stop Violence
By Kirsty Grennan and Megan Cronin To celebrate International Women’s Day on 8th March, Women’s Voice is inviting the community to make decorated hearts to hang on trees in their…
Community-Based Welcome for Refugees
A recent meeting between the Refugee Buddy Project and Hastings Borough Council was an opportunity to discuss a variety of issues facing people seeking refuge in Hastings: this included a…
Challenging the Barracks
By Irfan Chowdhury,HCoS Web Administrator and Researcher On 15th February, Hastings Community of Sanctuary (HCoS) presented an online event entitled Challenging the Barracks, aimed at raising awareness of the conditions…
News from the Big Local
We don’t often report on annual general meetings, but Big Local North-East Hastings is an organisation that decides how £1 million of lottery money is spent. As a resident-led partnership,…
Going Nutcrackers for Doodles
By ExploreTheArch team A new community drawing project this March challenges you to delve into your cutlery drawer – and draw! Inspired by Edward Lear’s poem The Nutcrackers and the…
The Importance of Independent Local Journalism
Journalism has come under the spotlight over the last few years, particularly the lack of reliable sources of information in the corporate media. More recently the spotlight has been on…
Exploring Hastings
Social media is full of interesting rabbit holes to investigates but there’s no time to go down them all. One that recently caught my eye was a post by Urban…
Library of Things comes to Hastings
A library of things is a collection of items (not books), that canbe borrowed, used and returned to be used again. ‘Thing Libraries’ exist all over the world, some specialise…
Covid Question Time for Civic Leaders
In a major online broadcast event, top civic leaders from across Hastings and East Sussex are coming together to answer questions from the community on Friday 19th February at Hastings…
Award-Winning Journalist for Local Talk
The next meeting of the Hastings & Rye Palestine Solidarity Campaign (HRPSC) is tackling the issue of censorship and free speech head-on with a Zoom talk titled: Why Can’t We…
A Day in the Life
Hastings Beatles Day is back – determined to entertain you and raise funds for charity despite pandemic restrictions. On Sunday 11th April, Hastings Beatles Day will bring together acts from…
Things To Do During Lockdown
We’re all looking forward to lockdown being over, but we’ve still got some way to go. So it’s still not too late to find new things to do to while…
Nuclear Ban Comes into Force
History was made on the 22nd of January 2021 when, for the first time, a ban on nuclear weapons came into force. Hastings gave its support for the treaty last October…
A favourite tree in Gensing Gardens?
Head to Gensing Gardens this February to take part in a new project that celebrates St Leonards-on-Sea’s ’secret’ park – hidden from view yet running alongside London Road. Theatre company…
Talking Loud
Talking Loud is a series of free online talks aimed at people currently working in the creative industries in the South East and presented by both the De La Warr…
Sun Still Shines on French Imports
HIP talks to Adam and Rebecca about their vintage clothing business, Sunless Antiques in Norman Road and the effect of Brexit on imports from France. cof When did you set…
Draft Local Plan: The View from West St Leonards
In our News pages, Chris Lewcock presents comments on Hastings Borough Council’s draft Local Plan, which is up for consultation until 24th March. Bryan Fisher of West St Leonards Forum,…
Transitioning to a Hastings Garden Town
Since 2015, Transition Town Hastings (TTH) has been working to transform the green space around Warrior Square Station, with the support of South Eastern Rail. The resulting garden is now…
Interesting People #3
Glenn Veness Long-term Hastings resident Glenn Veness has already appeared in HIP, writing an occasional column (see Glenn Veness kicks off again). HIP thought it was time to talk to…
Top Historian at Local Palestinian Event
World-renowned historian Ilan Pappé will join an online event hosted by the Hastings and Rye Palestine Solidarity Campaign (HRPSC) at 7pm on 20th January. The meeting entitled Expulsion without Return?…
Council to take £1.6m from reserves
Last Friday Hastings Borough Council issued its draft corporate plan and budget proposals for the next financial year (April 2021 to March 2022). It involves taking nearly £ million from…