Electric Palace Pleads For Support
The Electric Palace cinema in the Old Town is warning that it may have to let the end credits roll after an 18-year run. Closed between March and August due to the Covid-19 lockdown it reopened for screenings this ;…
St Mary Loses Its Friends
St Mary-in-the-Castle, the Grade-II*-listed structure built as a church in the 1820s in neo-classical style as the grand architectural centrepiece of Pelham Crescent beneath West Hill, remains one of Hastings’ primary concert and entertainment venues. It will host a full…
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 first round launched in ; For the previous seven years…
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 the Foreshore Trust should be distributed. Cllr Sue Beaney, who…
ENVIRONMENTAL EVENTS
Hastings Country Park secures National Lottery support Environmental charity Groundwork South, working in partnership with Hastings Borough Council, has received a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £277,000 for ‘Hidden Hastings Heritage’. Taking place across Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve…
News in Brief
• On 6th March the planning committee of Hastings Borough Council approved the application made by Sheikh Abid Gulzar, owner of Hastings pier, to erect five sheds on it. Three committee members, Cllrs Beaver, O’Callaghan and Webb, declared prejudicial or…
Counselling Service receives funds to support local residents at risk of suicide
Counselling Plus Community (CPC) has received funding from the Foreshore Trust to support residents of Hastings & St. Leonards at risk of suicide. Counselling Plus has been established in Hastings & Rother since 1992 and is a well-respected, affordable service,…
Get involved, get active and change your world for the better
Sustainability on Sea is an environmental micro festival, focussed on Hastings, St Leonards and Ore. Running between 21st and 30th September, it aims to promote a sustainable future by encouraging people to alter the way they live and play an…
TIDE US OVER!
Let us manage the pier until the end of December, say FoHP. Emma Harwood reports. As the clock ticks for the Friends of Hastings Pier (FoHP) to persuade administrators to hand ownership back to the Hastings and St Leonards community,…
TRUST IN THE COMMUNITY!
Friends of Hastings Pier look to the Foreshore Trust to back their bid Emma Harwood reports The Foreshore Trust, a charity managed by Hastings Borough Council that owns all the land along the seafront from Rock-a-Nore to Bulverhythe, could play…