Help save the rainforest
Local Greenpeace activists recently demonstrated outside Tesco stores in Hastings claiming the supermarket group is associated with deforestation. The protest is linked to Greenpeace’s new animation, Monster, in which a jaguar turns up in a boy’s kitchen to tell him…
Hastings Pantry Moves To Permanent Home
The town centre food pantry project, which helps people on low incomes with essential food, has now moved from Middle Street to its new premises in Dorset Place next to Hastings Furniture Service. It opened to the public last Friday…
Local Charities Get Bags of Money
Corporate responsibility might just seem like a fig leaf to cover the excessive profits of large corporations, but it’s still interesting to see how their charitable funding can help at a local level. Supermarkets have a particularly high profile within…
Care for the Carers bags £6,000 from Tesco’s community grant scheme
Care for the Carers is delighted to announce it has received a donation of £4,000 from Tesco’s Bags of Help community grant scheme, which was running in Bexhill’s Tesco stores. A further award of £2,000 was awarded by Tesco stores…
Hastings Foodbank
By Natalie Williams The Hastings Foodbank continues to feed local people in crisis. Since April 2016, we have distributed 21,393 meals (9 meals per person in household for three days) to 2,377 people (this includes 887 children). Over 14 tons…