Tag archives for Transition Town Hastings
Seeds of Change: How Local Growers Are Transforming Hastings
Warrior Square is bursting with daffodils, the sun is finally rising just after , and – whisper it if you like, but I’m more than ready to shout it –…
Open Gardens Go Edible
Food growers in and around Hastings and St Leonards are opening their plots and gardens to the public for the first Edible Open Gardens weekend. HANNAH ROBBINS explains. Town GrownStonelynk…
Environmental News: Our Town is an Orchard
From equinox to equinox, local food grower’s network Town Grown has been encouraging people to plant fruit trees across Hastings and St Leonards. The organisation’s launch survey revealed that three…
We’ve got the space, so let’s use it
KEN DAVIS from Transition Town Hastings sets out the group’s innovative approach to solving the housing crisis in ; We need more homes, but homes of the right quality in…
People’s Assembly Attracts 200+ Gathering
Over 200 people gathered in Hastings Town Centre on Saturday 20 August for a People’s Assembly on the Cost of Living Crisis and the Climate Emergency. The Assembly was organised…
People’s Assembly to Debate Cost of Living and Climate Issues
By Charmian Kenner A People’s Assembly on the cost of living crisis is to be held in central Hastings on Saturday 20 August from It will take place outdoors in…
Introducing Town Grown – a network of local food growers
By Hannah Robbins and Anna Locke Town Grown is a new project set up to support and stimulate food growing across the Hastings area. Its aim is to help anyone…
Making the impossible possible
By Sherry ClarkChair, Transition Town Hastings Worried about how you’ll cope with post-COP26 blues now that two years of anticipation and two weeks of ‘blah, blah, blah’ draws to a…
Blooming Butchery at Warrior Square Station
In what looks an increasingly familiar mix of ‘just doing our job’ and risk management gone haywire, contractors for Southeastern Railway have destroyed a large section of the wildflower meadow…
Transitioning to a Hastings Garden Town
Since 2015, Transition Town Hastings (TTH) has been working to transform the green space around Warrior Square Station, with the support of South Eastern Rail. The resulting garden is now…
Keep Growing This Summer At St Leonards Own Community Garden
By Sherry Clark Covid-19 has provided us all with ample opportunity to think about how we use our time, and for some, how we can spend more time outdoors, getting…
A Platform For Young Readers’ Voices
By Gail Borrow Catch this year’s biggest public display of young people’s art locally as ATownExploresABook20 gears up for its final weekend of exploration of H G Wells’ The Time…
Active Travel In Hastings
Are Councils Failing Cyclists? From mid-March, when PM Boris Johnson closed schools and urged people to work from home and avoid non-essential travel, the volume of road traffic fell sharply across the…
Meet you by the Mosaic!
By Alison Cooper Transition Town Hastings (TTH), re-formed in 2015 with the intention of creating a more connected, healthier and more self-sufficient community, have been working on an exciting new…
Sunshine Thyme!
By Arno Maasdorp I’ve been keeping a close eye on the genius community garden project masterminded by the good folk of Transition Town Hastings. The idea is straightforward: raised beds…
Sustainability on Sea
Helping you help the environment The last fortnight has seen an onslaught of apocalyptic news, catastrophic climate change on the horizon and one million species at risk of extinction. Things…
We’ve Remembered the Past, Now What About the Future?
Earlier this month Hastings witnessed the centenary of the armistice that ended the First World War, but, as noted in last issue’s Community section, we don’t seem to have taken…
Changing the way we eat
Zelly Restorick We have less than 16 harvests left before experiencing serious problems within the UK food chain, warns organic farmer and activist, Patrick Holden, who set up the Sustainable…
Transition Town Hastings is running a Sustainability Week
From 22nd – 30th September this year. Lots of exciting events are planned, including food & energy workshops, recycling & food waste projects, stalls and entertainment at a day-long event…
The Big Lunch 2018!
Transition Town Hastings invites you to join in this year’s Big Lunch event on 3rd June. This event, founded by the Eden Project, takes place every year all over the…