Tag archives for refugee week
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…
Refugee Week Food Festival: Couragein Practice
A key aspect of this year’s Refugee Week programme is the Food Festival. Between 13 and 21 June, local restaurants, cafés and safe havens across Hastings and surrounding areas are…
Open Arms
GARETH STEVENS reflects on the new mural in Robertson Street Over a relatively short number of years Hastings and St Leonards has become a veritable treasure trove of high-quality street…
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…
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…
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…
Hastings Community of Sanctuary joins new national coalition to build a fairer asylum system
Felicity Laurence and Pal Luthra from the HCOS Campaigns Team explore an alternative to the government’s new plans for refugees 14th-20th June was Refugee Week. Never has it been so…
Hastings marks Refugee Week
Over the last 20 years, the Links Project, which is supported by Hastings Borough Council, has been working with immigrants and asylum seekers. This year national refugee week (18 –…
Share the Journey – Local Walkers Support Refugees
Local church-based walking group The Amblers are joining with other church groups, friends and anyone wanting to show their solidarity with or reflect on the plight of the many tens…