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…