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 reserves rather than cutting services significantly or making more staff…
Census 2021: Snapshot of Modern Society
Households in Hastings will soon be asked to take part in Census 2021. The census is a once-in-a-decade survey that gives us the most accurate estimate of all the people and households in England and Wales. It has been carried…
Free Cookery Courses
Following a highly successful online course last November, Bags of Taste will be running a second online course from 25th January. Designed to help stretch the pennies for those on low incomes, the aim is to upgrade skills and motivate…
Hastings Emerging Futures Project – upcoming events
All through the Autumn of 2020, the Hastings Emerging Futures project ran a series of future visioning workshops for individuals and organisations working in the voluntary sector. The aim was to explore new ways of imagining the future, considering how…
Lottery Grants for Community Support still Available
With the Covid-19 pandemic still here, the National Lottery continues to support people and communities most adversely impacted. Funding can help make a real difference with sums available from £300 to £10,000. Although there are also grants of more than…
Heritage Stewards: Maintaining a Historical Record
The Trinity Triangle High Street Heritage Action Zone is a four-year regeneration programme supported by Historic England to breathe new life into a historic part of Hastings town centre: the Trinity Triangle and America Ground. The Trinity Triangle area of…
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Hastings Independent has published more than 4,500 articles since it started in 2014. And maybe one of them was about you or your organisation – or perhaps you just got a mention. If you’d like a colour copy of the…
Christmas Joy Around the World
Four local musicians brought Christmas joy into the lives of people around the world on Sunday when they appeared in an online concert organised from St Leonards. Jazz maestro Liane Carroll, global music specialist Frank Moon, and multi-talented sisters Alice…
Hastings Museum is ‘Good to Go’
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery re-opened on Thursday, 10th December. The family-friendly museum with amazingly diverse collections, offers access to art, culture and history from around the ;And the museum is free to visit with free onsite parking! You still…
Volunteer of the Year Goes the Extra Mile
A volunteer for the Education Futures Trust (EFT) has gone the extra mile to raise money for the charity, after walking 15 miles from Eastbourne to Hastings on November 24th. Mark Ripley, who was awarded ‘Volunteer of the Year’ in…