Tag archives for Homeless
In the Community
Local 106 -year-old fundraiser receives Points of Light award. Joan Willett raised more than £60,000 for British Heart Foundation research in the lead up to her 104 birthday, and as…
Council Plans to Buy Housing for Homeless
By Paul McLaughlin Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has unveiled an ambitious £11 million plan to buy up to 50 properties to provide temporary housing for local residents who need somewhere…
Harsh Winter For those Vulnerably Housed?
The Bexhill and Rother Homeless Unity Group (HUG) warns that local people could be forced to disconnect from the national grid due to the high cost of prepay energy meters…
The Birth of a Charity
By Rachel Holtom This is the story of Warming up the Homeless (WUTH) and its volunteers, an inspirational charity which since its humble beginnings now acts as a lifeline for…
Amazing Christmas Gift
Staff at a Bexhill-based holiday parks group have been described as “truly amazing” after they donated a whole van-full of gifts to a Hastings food charity. The comment was made…
Changing Lives One Smile at a Time
By Ben Cornwell Many homeless and vulnerable people face huge obstacles in accessing dental care. They often haven’t seen a dentist for years and are suffering from severe dental pain.…
Sleep Out to Help Out
The Seaview Project in St Leonards is organising a fund-raising Big Sleep which asks for volunteers to sleep out and raise money for the town’s most vulnerable people, particularly those…
Rough Sleeping In Rough Times
On Thursday 26th March, every council leader in England received a letter from Luke Hall MP, the Under Secretary of State for Local Government and ;It asked their councils to house all…
HBC Homeless Strategy Consultation
As Hastings Borough Council is reviewing their Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy, HIP talks to James Robinson of Surviving the Streets to get his view of life for the homeless.…
Wi-Fi Refugee On St Leonards Seafront
A homeless Hastings woman with a complex medical condition is facing huge fines for non-payment of parking tickets. Roxanne Roma has been living in a camper van on St Leonards…
Hunger In Hastings
Every day food goes to waste in superstores and fast food restaurants, yet people go hungry. In Hastings Dom’s Food Mission matches surplus food to hungry mouths. Ben Bruges finds…
Return Of The Mammoth Lower Park Road Yard Sale
Last year saw the birth of an idea: a street sale, right in the centre of town. The day came, the sun shone, and hundreds of visitors turned up to…
Exciting Developments At Emmaus Hastings & Rother
Emmaus, the charity which provides the homeless with accommodation and a route back to independent life has ambitious plans for upgrading their main site and superstore in St Leonards. A…
Pete Brown & The Hastings All Stars Sixties
Beat poet & lyricist supporting local homeless. By John Cornelius It’s nothing unusual to walk past a local pub and hear a live band bashing out a couple of 1960s…
A Sticking Plaster
Government funding to provide short term solution for Hastings homeless as the council borrows millions to provide affordable accommodation by Emma Harwood Funds to help tackle the sharp increase in…
The Seaview Project
Seaview has existed for 33 years, originally as an outreach centre to help former in-patien ts of Hellingly Mental Hospital cope with the outside world under the ‘care in the…
No Direction Home
There are, on most nights, between 40 and 50 people sleeping rough within the town of Hastings. That’s according to current data collected by St Leonards mental health and wellbeing…
Drug-Abusing, Homeless and Dead
On 4th January this year the Hastings and Rother coroner’s office announced that there had been three deaths of homeless people in Hastings in eight days over Christmas. MP (and…
Charity for Homeless wins national award
The Seaview Project has emerged as one of the eight winners of the 2018 GSK IMPACT Awards. The charity will receive £30,000 in funding as part of its prize, as…