Community Café – Celebrates Successful First Year
Simone Brookes A local community café, set up to provide affordable, home-cooked meals for those on low incomes and alleviate food poverty in Ore, will celebrate its first birthday on May 8th. Our Café @Ore, run by Education Futures Trust…
More Trains, More Seats, Better Connections
So say Southern as RMT Union prepare to strike again Hugh Sullivan reports In a Which survey published in January this year, Southern Rail was identified as providing the worst train service in Britain for the third year running, with…
Appeal for Solar Energy Sites
BY KENT BARKER The Hastings cooperative, Energise Sussex Coast, has won a grant to install solar panels in Ore. Energise Sussex Coast (ESC) is a community benefit organisation set up to accelerate the transition to a low carbon future through…
Opening of Hastings and St Leonards Men’s Shed
On Saturday 3rd December, Deputy Mayor Nigel Sinden presided over the official opening of a new community resource, ‘Hastings and St. Leonards Men’s Shed’. ‘Men’s Sheds’ is an international non-profit association where men, predominately over the age of 50, can…
Invest in your community and give from the heart
The Heart of Hastings Community Land Trust (CLT) has been designed to become a “people’s organisation” - owned and shaped by its shareholding members. It is properly democratic because every member has one vote, no matter how many shares they…
Ore Valley
Community members have been put at the heart of plans to regenerate the old Broomgrove power station site in Ore Valley in Hastings. Recently a group of local activists and residents, under the banner of the Heart of Hastings Community…