Tag archives for St Michael’s Hospice
A Summerof Gardens
The open gardens season is now underway across Hastings and Rother, offering the public a rare chance to step inside inspiring private gardens. MALCOLM GLOVEREdible Open Gardens: The Knowle ECLECTIC…
Football fundraiser for St Michael’s
Hastings residents receiving end-of-life care will benefit from more than £2,300 thanks to a fundraising football match organised by kind-hearted Tesco colleagues. The closely contested game featured teams representing the…
Good Grief: A New Festival for Hastings
FIONA MCGARRY A new four-day festival exploring grief, love and loss is coming to Hastings this May. It will take place over the late May Bank Holiday weekend and run…
Advertorial: Lights of Love
Remember a loved one this winter As autumn turns to winter and the evenings draw in, something beautiful unfolds across Hastings and Rother. Lights of Love are the annual remembrance…
All Stitched Up
ERICA SMITH encourages readers to visit the Hastings in Stitches quilt at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery James Matthew ThomasDenise Franklin of Carbon picture framing with the community embroidery laid…
Funding Boost For Hospice
St Michael’s Hospice has been given a funding boost of £441,000. It is one of 170 hospices across England that will share in a £75 million central government package –…
Bingo is Back
Bingo returned to Hastings with the opening of the refurbished Deluxe Bingo at Pelham Place on Saturday 21 June – the hottest day of the year so far. Announced by…
Ye Olde Rock’n’Raise notches up £3k for Hospice
Staff at the popular Old Town pub Ye Olde Pumphouse organised a night of live music in memory of late local musician Phil Gill, raising a whopping £3,000 for St…
Community News in Brief
Women of Hastings! Continues Women of Hastings! writing group was set up by Glenys Jacques to create space for local women’s voices. Sadly, she she died in November last year…
Community News and Events
Funds for Rural Rother Friends Altogether in Rother (FAiR) delivers services to communities in rural Rother and has announced that they have recently been awarded £19,900 by The National Lottery…
Get Ready to Sing Big at the Big Sing
St Michael’s Hospice has announced the return of its Big Sing event. It’s set to be a spectacular celebration of music and community and takes place on Saturday 12 October…
What We Doat the WI
MANDY SKEATES explains the Wonky Women's Institute: a safe, social and educational space for chat, laughter - and always fun Wonky WI2023 Charities Cheque Presentation Evening. Pictured L to R:…
Jen Painter Auction
ANN KRAMER Opening on Saturday 4 May will be an exhibition and fund raising sale of paintings and drawings by artist and lifelong pacifist Jen Painter, who died in early…
New Site For Hospice?
The Trustees of St Michael’s Hospice have announced that they are looking to expand their hospice service, including exploring alternative ; Dr Karen Clarke, the chief executive, said that while…
Pedalling a Good Cause
Are you looking for a new fitness challenge for 2024? And one that would actually help other people? How about a 4-day cycle ride from Eastbourne to Amsterdam? Obviously that…
The Big Sing
Want to join a local choir? Start here 7 October this year sees a magnificent gathering of local choirs at St John’s Church, Brittany Road, St Leonards. If you love…
Follow that Duck set to Waddle Away
If you have enjoyed seeing the rubber duck and rubber duckling sculptures on the streets of Hastings, St Leonards on Sea and Bexhill on Sea this summer, you may be…
Community Round up
National Heritage Day Bohemia Walled Garden will be opening its doors for National Heritage Day on Sunday 18 September. The day will involve refreshments, family activities and musical entertainment. Visitors…
People of Hastings & St Leonards
Martin Symons This week Kathryn Sutter spoke to Martin Symons about his history in the town and his work as Community Volunteering Coordinator at St Michael’s Hospice. Martin began our…
You can all join in
Become a lifeguard Last year RNLI lifeguards, who cover 177 beaches across the UK and Channel Islands, protected an estimated 20 million visitors. Now the charity wants to hear from…
People of Hastings & St Leonards
Father David Hill For this edition Kathryn Sutter spoke to Father David Hill, Rector of St John’s Church, Pevensey Road. “I’ve been in the town for eight years as Rector…
FOOTBALL
A Fundraising Game Plan By Ben Cornwell Football is a game that generates greed, selfishness and an over-emphasis on winning or losing – right? Not in the case of Hollington…
Dedicate a star to remember a loved one
With the festive season on the horizon, and 2021 drawing to a close, many of us will use this time to reflect on the year and remember family and friends…
Open Gardens 2021: A Huge Success
For anyone who missed St Michael’s Hospice Open Garden Season, it is well worth putting in your diaries for next year. Not only is it a wonderful opportunity to see…
Growing together at St Michael’s Hospice
ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE: Live life as fully as possible with support from St Michael’s Hospice. Growing Together is part of the Wellbeing Programme at St Michael’s Hospice. The programme focuses on…
Enabling the Community to Live Well with Dying, Death and Loss
ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE: Being told you have a life-limiting illness can bring great anxiety and a sense of loss of control. Through the provision of palliative care services, St Michael’s Hospice…
Celebrating volunteers at St Michael’s Hospice
ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE: Throughout Volunteers’ Week (1st-7th June 2021), St Michael’s Hospice took the opportunity to thank their volunteers for their contribution to the Hospice and showcase the benefits volunteers have…
Volunteers Still Needed
Volunteers’ Week was from 1st to 7th June, a time to thank volunteers for all their hard work. But the work goes on, so HIP is spotlighting Hastings Voluntary Action…
Bag your Bunny Hop goodies
As the St Michael’s Hospice Easter Bunny Hop cannot go ahead in the usual way this year, the Hospice are inviting you to buy your Bunny Hop goodie bags and…
Some Traditions Remain
Entering the festive season, many of us will want to reflect on this difficult year and, in particular, remember family and friends no longer with us. Many changes have happened…
Cash boost for Hospice
Plus pre-loved Donations restarts! St Michael’s Hospice, providing free-of-charge specialist palliative care and support to patients and their families throughout Hastings and Rother, is heavily dependent on the generosity of…
Hospice Launches Virtual Fundraising Pack
Having recently experienced the wonderful service hospices provide, I wanted to add my own voice to the work carried out by the hospice movement. I was particularly touched that, having…
We Need To Talk
The message of Dying Matters Week To mark last week’s Dying Matters Awareness Week, Hospice UK has released new research findings which may surprise you. Apparently 72% of bereaved adults…
Lights of Love 2019
St Michael’s Hospice hosts Lights of Love as an act of remembrance for someone who has passed away by dedicating a star or heart on a Lights of Love ;…
Arts Diary
Beacon Jazz Fans of avant-garde music are in for a double treat at the Beacon in October. Free jazz trio Somersaults are touring their new album ‘Numerology of Birdsong’ (West…
DANNY POCKETS: Houses of the Holy
Solaris are very proud to present a bold re-staging of the late artist Danny Pockets’ exhibition The Houses of the Holy, which took place at the Royal Albert Hall in…
The Perils Of Running A Pub
By Rod Webb Running a pub these days isn’t easy, what with the low price of take-away alcohol, the unsociable hours, finding good staff and attracting a regular flow of…
PET CORNER: Competition time! Calling all dog lovers
St Michael’s Hospice St Michael’s Hospice is looking for a poster pup to feature on their event publicity and poster for their new event ‘Wag This Way’. The Hospice is…