Tag archives for Refugee Buddy Project
A Taste of Hope
ELLA LOWDEN To celebrate this year’s Refugee Week, venues across Hastings and St Leonards are taking part in a food festival, organised by The Refugee Buddy Project. Recipes of Courage is…
Horizon at The New French’s
KATE SHAW I was excited to see what Seb Hipperson and his team had done to the old French’s wine bar. So when I was invited to DJ there by…
Community Happenings in June and July
Library of Things After a short break, the Library of Things has relocated and reopened within HEART community information hub at the Priory Meadow entrance of Hastings Town Hall. Sewing…
Gaza Protests Ignored by Local Politicians
Rod Webb A wide range of local pressure groups – led by Hastings & Rye Palestine Solidarity Campaign (HRPSC) but joined by trades union groupings, Amnesty International, refugee support groups…
Refugee Week 2023
GARETH STEVENS This year’s Refugee Week in Hastings, Rother and Wealden will launch on Sunday 18 June at at the Hastings Contemporary. The sheer span of the events and activities…
Tell Your Story for Hastings Refugee Week
This year marks the 25 anniversary of Refugee Week. To celebrate Story Time are accepting submissions of stories from refugees and people from migrant backgrounds on the theme of Compassion.…
Deterred or Detained?
Former Bexhill Prison Site to House Cross-Channel Arrivals HUGH SULLIVAN The former Category C prison of Northeye, on the western fringe of Bexhill, was one of three sites publicly identified…
Jamming in the Summer Sun
VICTORIA KINGHAM interviews the indefatigable Max Baillie, violinist, viola player, virtuoso, musical powerhouse, Founder of St Leonards Concerts and leader of The Fritz Brothers and other ensembles, in the first…
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…
Refugee Buddy Project Receives ACE funding
The Refugee Buddy project has been awarded a Small Project Grant from Arts Council England to support their Refugee Week 2023. This funding will allow them to build on the…
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…
The HIP/Magnum Multimedia Storytelling Programme
Features Editor Ben Bruges asks HIP readers to help us run a free multimedia journalism training programme for 18- to 30-year-olds, from backgrounds that are under-represented in journalism. Hastings’ young…
Café of Sanctuary
Gareth Stevens talks to Rossana Leal and Yeser Mohammed at the Refugee Buddy Project’s new Dove Café on Bexhill Road. In a month in which a government minister conceded that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…