Tag archives for Hastings Advice and Representation Centre
Use It Or Lose It: The Battle to Protect Free Advice Services
With face-to-face advice services under threat from continued austerity, INGRID ALLAN looks back at the unique role they’ve played in improving welfare across Hastings and East Sussex and offers advice…
Community News and Events
Funds for Rural Rother Friends Altogether in Rother (FAiR) delivers services to communities in rural Rother and has announced that they have recently been awarded £19,900 by The National Lottery…
“Huge Holes” in Benefits Safety Net
PAUL MCLAUGHLIN Josie Barnes PhotographyHARC Chief Executive Jacky Everard HARC, the Hastings Advice and Representation Centre, has published its 2023 Client Survey. In her forward to the findings, Chief Executive…
More Than A Free Meal
By Susan Desrosiers As the days grow shorter and many people across the country are forced to choose between heating their home or feeding their family, there is one place…
Funding Boost Helps Ease Covid Debt
Residents facing financial pressure and debt as a result of Covid-19 restrictions can get the support they need thanks to funding of more than £500,000. East Sussex County Council is…
Hungry All Year Round
The Hastings Foodbank, which has reported a shocking 87 per cent increase in use over the last two years, is making an urgent appeal for donations over the Christmas and…
Welfare system ‘forcing people to the brink’, says local advice agency
Survey reveals evidence of ‘systemic dishonesty’ in Universal Credit benefits means testing by Emma Harwood “Draconian” reforms to the welfare system introduced by the Conservative government are failing those who…