Tag archives for Hastings Community of Sanctuary
Safe Havens: Strengthening Our Community
JESSICA BRAYE, FRANCES CROWLEY, KRISSIE NICOLSON, and REBECCA SINKER talk about the birth of The Refugee Buddy Project’s Safe Havens initiative, how it works and why it’s important Kate ButtsSafe…
Sanctuary Comedy Special 2024
ROHAN JAYASEKERA The untold experiences of refugees who seek safety in England are many. The darkest, most hidden ones are the experiences of torture. Hundreds, maybe thousands of our newest…
Hastings Puts Out Welcome Mat
Hastings’ branch of Amnesty International celebrates the town’s attitude to refugees A huge welcome mat was placed at the Hastings Museum and Gallery and the Hastings Borough Council Offices to…
Sanctuary Festival 2023
Community, Creativity and Compassion come together at this year’s Sanctuary Festival on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 June 2023 at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery. Festival organiser, and Co-Chair of…
No Asylum Accommodation at Pontins
Following the report in HIP 219 of hotels in Hastings being used as asylum hostels, it has emerged that the Home Office approached Rother District Council and East Sussex County…
SAVE THE CHILDREN!
Refugee aid group highlights safeguarding failures BY HUGH SULLIVAN On 24 January the UK Parliament debated allegations published in the national Observer newspaper the previous weekend that dozens of unaccompanied…
Hotels of Shame
Gareth Stevens uncovers the horrific truth hidden in a Hastings hotel. On November 8, the Refugee Buddy project (RBP) found out by chance that a hotel in Hastings had been…
Small boat crossings at a new high
Statistics issued by the Ministry of Defence confirm that refugees and would-be migrants are continuing to arrive across the English Channel from France in small boats – mainly rubber dinghies…
Why I took part in the Stop Rwanda protest
A personal perspective from Pal Luthra On Monday 5 September, I took part in a ‘Stop Rwanda’ protest in Hastings on the promenade below Warrior Square with 150 or so…
Change of Hart?
Local campaigners press Hastings MP on Nationality Bill amendments This Friday 11 March the campaign group Hastings Community of Sanctuary (HCoS) will hand to Hastings & Rye MP Sally-Ann Hart…
Standing Together with Refugees
FELICITY LAURENCE, Hastings Community of Sanctuary, reflects on the recent tragedies. On Thursday 25 November, 250 people gathered in sorrow on the Stade. In candlelit silence, we remembered those people…
City of Sanctuary
In 2017 Hastings Borough Council resolved to become a City of Sanctuary in response to an initiative launched by a local community group Hastings Supports Refugees (HSR), which had been…
Zooming in on the Asylum Debate
By Nick Pelling In the wake of the recent Sanctuary festival, two online meetings have been organised, in order to allow people in Hastings to get a fuller understanding of…
Boat People
Political Clashes over Peril at Sea Well over a thousand people – men, women, children and babies – have crossed the English Channel from France on small boats during the…
The Realities of Being an Immigration Lawyer
Plans for new legislation on asylum policy (see previous HIP, Hastings Community of Sanctuary joins new national coalition to build a fairer asylum system) involve profound changes to immigration law.…
Hastings Community of Sanctuary joins new national coalition to build a fairer asylum system
Felicity Laurence and Pal Luthra from the HCOS Campaigns Team explore an alternative to the government’s new plans for refugees 14th-20th June was Refugee Week. Never has it been so…
War Of Words As Channel Crossings Continue
Another cross-Channel boat containing 25 “displaced persons” was brought into shore at Pett Level on Saturday, as the easing of rough sea conditions over the past week gave a fresh…
Afghanistan: Hidden Voices From A Forgotten War By Maya Evans
Voices for Creative Non-Violence, £5 Review by Kay Green 180 years of conflict and misery, and no end in sight. We talk about Iraq, we talk about Syria and Palestine…
A Celebration of Sanctuary
On 13th June the “open” project at Open on sea-front was launched with its first exhibition of photographs by Andrew Grainger. This venue is to be run by the 20…
Sanctuary Festival: Sun, Food, Music and Swimming
The beautiful walled garden of Ashburnham Place rang with sounds of music and laughter last Sunday (23rd June) as the Hastings Community of Sanctuary celebrated its Festival by the Lake.…
Lift The Ban: Let Asylum Seekers Work!
By Jay Kramer Hastings & St Leonards took part in a national campaign on 15th June aimed at persuading the Home Office to allow asylum seekers to undertake paid work…