All That is Lost
By Nick Pelling It is a sad fact of life that today’s heartbreaking news is all too rapidly supplanted by tomorrow’s heartbreaking news. A combination perhaps of compassion fatigue and the sheer relentlessness of bad news tends to give horror…
All Refugees Welcome
By Sarah Milne Over recent months, we have seen the conflict in Ukraine unfolding in real time before our eyes on our TV screens and social ; At the same time, we continue to see the more familiar images of…
The Refugee Buddy Project Christmas Fair
The Refugee Buddy Project will be holding their popular Christmas Fair on 4 December 2021. After a gap of one year, the event returns for 2021 hosted by the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery. There will be something for everybody,…
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 the refugee question and possible changes to UK asylum law.…
Hastings Festival of Sanctuary
Musicians and artists join a day of community, creativity and hope By Nick Pelling The Festival of Sanctuary sends a simple message of welcome, with some of Hastings’ best musicians and artists once again showing their support for the act…
Refugee Action Weekend
After a week of hearing extraordinary ideas emanating from the Home Office and splashed across mainstream media – one to send all asylum seekers arriving in the UK to camps on remote islands in the south Atlantic, another to create…
Refugee Week 2020
By Fiona McGarry This year the theme of Refugee Week (15th-21st June) is ‘Imagine’. It’s important that we do try to imagine, so we can begin to understand how people seeking refuge in the UK are treated – very differently…
Stitch For Change
Pandemic Patchwork Stories Stitch For Change is a textiles and embroidery project, hosted by The Refugee Buddy Project, Hastings, in response to the current public health crisis. It aims to promote the meditative benefits of hand stitching and to provide…
Labour Roots
HIP’s political editor, Alan Bolwell, reports from a Labour Party drive in the key marginal of Hastings and Rye East Sussex College, Hastings played host to a local Labour Roots Rally last Saturday as the party starts to mobilise its…