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Glenn Veness Kicks Off!
An occasional column by well-known Hastings resident Glenn Venessin which he expresses his opinions in flamboyant style. Before I lose half my friends in Hastings and 99% of HIP readers,…
The Foreshore Trust
Second Round Grant Applications Now Open! The Foreshore Trust has launched the second round of their pilot combined grant scheme for 2019-20 following the recent allocation of grants for the…
New Improved 1066 Website
1066 Country Marketing, the public/private organisation that promotes 1066 Country to visitors, has launched its new website, a much-improved version that should help locals and visitors alike. The launch took…
Fabulous Footprints
As a result of fossil finds around Hastings cliffs last year, it is thought a new creature may have come to light… Renowned local puppet theatre company IDOLRICH TheatreRotto present…
Help people like Helen: Volunteer for Hastings Community Transport
By Ben Bruges Helen Rudd was hit in the head by a white van and her world disappeared. Emerging from a three-week coma, Helen initially spoke in numbers, then fluent…
Poetic Justice And The NHS
By Graham Pearcey Things have a way of coming around with something you might mistake for vengeance or poetic justice. In this case it was my pelvis hitting the pavement…
Local Manufacturers Pass Muster
A group of local manufacturers and engineers went back to basics last week using LEGO bricks. Locate East Sussex, the inward investment agency, held a manufacturers’ breakfast meeting at Hastings…
New Refill Shop For Trinity Wholefoods
HIP talks to one of the cooperative members, Nikki Gedney, about their new shop in Cambridge Road Trinity wholefoods was set up as a workers’ cooperative 34 years ago. Among…
Community Ledge #6: Ruaidhri Guest
You might think that at 16, Ruaidhri Guest hasn’t had enough time to become a legend. But when you get involved in the community in primary school, standing up against…
HBC Homeless Strategy Consultation
As Hastings Borough Council is reviewing their Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy, HIP talks to James Robinson of Surviving the Streets to get his view of life for the homeless.…
Hope Kitchen: Working from the heart
Mia L writes about her own involvement as a volunteer at a local soup kitchen in Hastings town centre, as well as giving a unique, personal perspective on those who…
Can you spare any time to volunteer?
Hastings Voluntary Action (HVA) are trying to encourage more people to volunteer but have found that people often don’t know what opportunities are available or how to get involved. To…
Christmas Is Coming And The Lights Will Be Going Up
St Leonards Town Team are holding a party! Join them at the Masonic Hall St Leonards on Friday 25th October to raise money and get the Christmas lights twinkling again…
COMMUNITY LEDGE #5: Rachel Holtom
We’ve had Community Ledges who make waves in the community. This month we have someone who makes ripples. Having experienced the top-down approach of social work, Rachel Holtom found herself…
Common Treasury Is Back!
The Common Treasury of Adaptable Ideas is back in Hastings on 24th October with great speakers and inspiring ideas. This time there’s a big emphasis on the ‘circular economy’ –…
A Hidden Community Needing Our Support
Most people are probably unaware of the 310,000 children that are affected by family imprisonment each year or that around 10,000 children visit a loved one in prison each ;…
Hotel Or Housing?
Council Cabinet To Debate Town Centre Car Park Development The cabinet of Hastings Borough Council will debate next Monday (7th October) a proposal to develop the Cornwallis Street car park…
An ‘Insider’s View’ on Israel and Palestine
Hastings is to host a talk by renowned Palestinian activist Miko Peled at the White Rock Hotel on Saturday 5 October at 3pm Miko is known as ‘the Israeli Insider’…
Little Gate Farm Creating Jobs In Partnership With HBC
Little Gate Farm has already clocked up five years’ experience in improving the lives of learning disabled, autistic, and vulnerable children and adults in East Sussex, supporting over 40 people…
Get Out In The Fresh Autumn Air With TCV
The dedicated East Sussex Biodiversity Action Team recently met for tea and cakes at the Hastings Country Park to celebrate The Conservation Volunteer’s 60th birthday this year. Hastings Country Park…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Large Grants For Hastings Community Businesses up For Grabs
Power to Change opens Community Business Fund Round 8 with cash grants worth between £50,000 and £300,000 for community businesses across ; From farms to libraries, canal moorings to cinemas,…
Archery Gardens Nearing Completion
By Rod Webb After many years of wrangling, Archery Gardens, the development on the old College site in Archery Road, St Leonards, is nearing completion. Regency Place, comprising nine houses…
Hastings Country Park To Say Goodbye To Well-loved Ponies
The Exmoor ponies at Hastings Country Park will be leaving us after six years of grazing the slopes and glens of Hastings Country ;The Sussex Pony Grazing Conservation Trust, who…
The Perils Of Running A Pub
By Rod Webb Running a pub these days isn’t easy, what with the low price of take-away alcohol, the unsociable hours, finding good staff and attracting a regular flow of…
Looking To Help Your Community? Here’s How…
Hastings Borough Council is looking for volunteers to sit on its Grants Advisory Panel. This gives advice to the Hastings and St Leonards Foreshore Trust on how surplus income from…
West Cliff railway closed for repairs
The West Hill Cliff Railway is currently closed due to a mechanical fault. Repairs are underway, but some of the equipment needs to be sent away to specialist contractors, so…
Food Detectives In Search Of Good Eating Habits
Food Detectives is a new initiative which aims to make the process of trying new, healthy foods into something exciting for young children. Once a week, for five weeks, 90…
Come Dine For Palestine
Have you ever tried Palestinian food? If not, here’s your chance to taste authentic Palestinian cuisine at a fun and uplifting local event. The Hastings and Rye Palestine Solidarity Campaign…
Knitting for Google
By Dave Young What might Sicily, lichen and Google have in common? The unlikely answer is Hastings Knitters – a local craft group asked at short notice to provide part…
COMMUNITY LEDGE #3: Claudine Eccleston
This week we give you Claudine Eccleston, a determined advocate of equal rights and well-deserving of her legendary ; Although there’s no shortage of Community Ledges down here in Hastings,…