Cost of Living Support
East Sussex County Council is providing information on how to cope with the cost-of-living crisis. The information in this article comes from one of their newsletters. The recent costs of living increases have led to tough decisions for many people…
Cost of Living: Direct Support
The appointment of Liz Truss as Prime Minister is expected to catalyse major new initiatives to cap energy price rises and/or to reduce taxes – to be announced quite probably in the course of this week. However, at the time…
Community round-up
Emmaus attends royal garden party On 11 May, Emmaus Hastings & Rother trustee David Cooper attended a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace. Every year, three garden parties are given at Buckingham Palace and one at Holyrood to acknowledge the positive…
Dr Energy
The team at Energise Sussex Coast answer your home energy-related questions to help everyone to save money and keep warm as sustainably as possible. Is the Green Home Grant a good deal? Colin, St Leonards The Green Home Grant is a…
Urgent help needed for private renters
Trade union, Unite, has called on the government to ensure renters get the protection they need. The situation is particularly acute in Hastings and St Leonard’s with 40% of its residents in private rented accommodation. Since the outbreak of the…
Free Training Offered In £1m College Pledge
East Sussex College (ESC) has pledged £1million to help retrain and upskill people in Sussex following the coronavirus pandemic. Its management say they intend to apply this sum out of their Adult Education Budget to support economic recovery in the…
Rough Sleeping In Rough Times
On Thursday 26th March, every council leader in England received a letter from Luke Hall MP, the Under Secretary of State for Local Government and ;It asked their councils to house all rough sleepers “by the end of the week” to prevent the…
Needy Tenants And Rent Caps
Asked to explain the criteria for selection of future residential tenants at the OB, White Rock Neighbourhood Ventures director James Leathers told HIP that design plans are far from finalised and that the company’s policy “may evolve”. However, at this…
Syrian Resettlement: “Working Brilliantly”, Says Project Co-ordinator
Simon Finlay, Project Co-ordinator of the Syrian Resettlement Programme at Hastings Borough Council, seems a happy man these days. He has spent half a lifetime working for organisations that have endeavoured, on a shoestring, to assist refugees to negotiate the…
Ore Library Closure
By Colin Gibson After efforts by the local community to keep it open after its initial closure order in May 2018, Ore public library will now close and will be “disposed of” by East Sussex County Council (ESCC), according to…