Tag archives for volunteer
Become Part of the HIP Community!
If you read our special 300th supplement, you’ll know just how much work goes into producing the paper, and that it is (almost) all done by volunteers. But there’s no…
Warming Up The Homeless needs YOU
Steven Short talks to WUTH about the charity’s drive to recruit more volunteers for its weekend food offerings. “It’s like Ready Steady Cook, our home cooks never know what they’re…
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…
All That is Lost
By Nick Pelling It is a sad fact of life that today’s heartbreaking news is all too rapidly supplanted by tomorrow’s heartbreaking news. A combination perhaps of compassion fatigue and…
The Greenhouse Effect
HIP catches up with the work of the Alexandra Park Greenhouse Group Three years ago, HIP reported on the Alexandra Park greenhouse restoration project; since then the community-based endeavour has…
Volunteers Needed for the Gig Buddies Project
Stay Up Late was formed in 2006 to support people with learning disabilities and/or autism to be less socially isolated and lead healthier, more fulfilled lives. Support workers tend to…
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…
Stables Theatre Rides the Storm
By contrast with the travails of the Electric Palace cinema, the Stables Theatre in The Bourne – less than 400 yards up the road – seems to be surviving the…
Much-loved clubs need your support
The search is on for volunteers who can help bring stories to life and support others to access library services. Rhyme-time and Storytime sessions, homework club and code club are…
The Museum & Gallery needs your help
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery is looking for volunteers to help support the museum programme, working alongside the curatorial team to improve the care and documentation of the museum’s collections.…
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…
Cooking on a Budget with Bags of Taste
By Rachel Karasik Sometimes, a cooking class is about far more than just learning to follow a recipe. Bags of Taste is helping people learn how to cook healthy, affordable…
Help people like Helen: Volunteer for Hastings Community Transport
By Ben Bruges Helen Rudd was hit in the head by a white van and her world disappeared. Emerging from a three-week coma, Helen initially spoke in numbers, then fluent…
Are You Good At Listening?
Hastings and Rother branch of the Samaritans does amazing work, and needs more volunteers. Ben Bruges met Yvette Harris, the branch director to find out what’s ; One of Chad…
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…
Looking To Help Your Community? Here’s How…
Hastings Borough Council is looking for volunteers to sit on its Grants Advisory Panel. This gives advice to the Hastings and St Leonards Foreshore Trust on how surplus income from…
Get involved at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery is looking for enthusiastic people to get involved by is not necessary and you don’t need any special or in-depth knowledge of the town or history:…
What’s the Buzz?
Charley Bolding-Smith The Hive: A Circle of Sisters is a very active new women’s community group happening in St. Leonard’s. It’s a funded voluntary organization which was started this autumn…
100 attend Hastings Pier volunteer day
Hastings Pier, due to reopen in Spring this year, welcomed over 100 potential volunteers last Tuesday (8th March) at the White Rock Hotel, Hastings. The recruitment day was part of…