Tag archives for Hastings Commons
Jess Steele Steps Down as CEO of Hastings Commons
Jess Steele has resigned from her role as Chief Executive of Hastings Commons, the community-led project behind the revival of several derelict buildings across the town. She had been CEO…
Development Special: Refurbish Don’t Demolish
KENT BARKER A growing movement in Hastings is opposing demolition of existing buildings, arguing that refurbishment is more cost effective and environmentally sound. Despite opposition from house builders and housing…
Eagle House Re-opens its Doors & Invites You to Show the Love
“Show your love” events on 11th February and Valentine’s weekend will mark the opening of Eagle House and celebrate new spaces at 12 Claremont and the Observer Rooftop. Elsa SimmonsYouth…
New Gallery for Project Art Works
Project Art Works, the highly-regarded art and care collective for neurodiverse artists, caregivers, and activists, will be opening a brand-new pop-up gallery, workshop space and shop in the heart of Hastings…
Can’t Run On Empty
Youth Commons Pleads for More Revenue Fundingto Avoid Closure HUGH SULLIVAN In January 2023 Hastings Commons was awarded £ million of public and charitable funds for investment in youth infrastructure…
New Moves to Save St Mary
KENT BARKER A new steering group has been formed to seek fresh and sustainable uses for St Mary in the Castle. The iconic Hastings building and concert venue has been…
Tell-Tale Fantasy
BECCA ROSE A groundbreaking immersive VR experience, The Tell-Tale Rooms, comes to OBX at Hastings Commons in Hastings, from 13 to 18 March. The film and exhibition invite audiences to…
Hastings Commons Wins Housing Prize
CHRIS CONNELLEY Hastings Commons, the cluster of community businesses behind the refurbishment of Rock House and the Observer Building, and the lead organisation for the Hastings Heritage Action Zone in…
WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
Letter Nuclear Waste from Dungeness Dear HIP I write in response to your lead story in HIP 264 New Nuclear for Dungeness? In my food business career I have had…
A New Way of Learning Which is Right Up Your Street
ERICA SMITH Hastings Commons is currently running a programme of courses tailored to suit people who have never felt comfortable in formal learning situations. Geometric patchwork cushion workshop with tutor…
Hastings Commons Renovations On Track
Hastings Commons (HC) has released an up-to-date report on their major renovation works at three properties: 12 Claremont, Eagle House and the rooftop of the Observer Building (OB). Planning permission…
Jess Steele, Community Entrepreneur
HUGH SULLIVAN In an era of squeezed public finances, soaring construction costs and wasting infrastructure, the renovation of buildings around Cambridge Road by the Hastings Commons (HC) group of trusts…
Kickstarting Youth Spaces
In March of this year, Hastings Commons secured a generous grant from the Youth Investment Fund of £ million. This has enabled the organisation to set up the Hastings Youth…
HYP – Hastings Youth Press!
Hastings Independent Press and The Magnum Photos Foundation partnered to deliver a free multimedia journalism training programme for 12 local young people, from backgrounds under-represented in the media, during the…
No money for St Mary from Town Deal
HUGH SULLIVAN Provisional Town Deal projects to redevelop the Priory Street car park and the west wing of the Priory Meadow Shopping Centre were withdrawn at the end of the…
Making Space For The Young
Hastings Commons, teaming up with Xtrax Hastings, has obtained another large tranche of government money to develop public spaces in Cambridge Road – this time focussing on the 11-18 age…
A Consultation for All the Community
On 25th March, community-led regeneration organisation Hastings Commons will host an open consultation alongside architects IF_DO and Purcell, regarding the future of two wonderful buildings in the White Rock area.…
St Mary: Community groups lodge “expression of interest”
A community “consortium” promoted by Hastings Commons and Hastings Creatives has lodged a formal “expression of interest” in response to the intended disposal of arts venue St Mary-in-the-Castle by owners…
Meet the OBX!
By Caf Fean, Neighbourhood Stories Coordinator, Hastings Commons Calling all technophiles, technophobes … and those of an inquisitive disposition. The Observer Building is hosting a series of Meet the OBX…
A Housing Crisis Debate
Reader's Letter: A Landlord's View Local resident/landlord Jamie writes to ’ve been reading through your recent commentary of the Hastings housing crisis with a mixture of sadness at some of…
Observe the Observer!
Restored building set for viewings, leases offered from August After nearly three years of renovation works the Observer Building on Cambridge Road will begin to reopen in August this year. Hastings…
Making the impossible possible
By Sherry ClarkChair, Transition Town Hastings Worried about how you’ll cope with post-COP26 blues now that two years of anticipation and two weeks of ‘blah, blah, blah’ draws to a…
Hastings Commons Diary
A semi-regular round-up of everything going on in the Hastings Commons By Andrew Myers WHAT IS HASTINGS COMMONS? It’s an ecosystem of organisations working together – Heart of Hastings, White…
Hastings Commons Diary
A semi-regular round-up of everything going on in the Hastings Commons By Andrew Myers What is the Hastings Commons? It’s a place – a collection of buildings in the America…
Hastings Commons Diary
“The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth.” (Wikipedia) They can also…