At a recent meeting of its Small Grants Sub-Committee, Big Local North-East Hastings agreed to grant more than £15,000 to 14 organisations to offer a wide range of services and events to local residents in the coming months. These included: Hastings Storytelling Festival for two performances of Ling Nose puppets at Sandown School as part […]
Reshaping women’s healthcare is a is the subject of a new government consultation and Hastings and Rye MP, Sally-Ann Hart, is encouraging women across the constituency to have their say by coming forward to share their experiences The first of its kind, the Women’s Health Strategy will address women’s health in England over the course […]
Words: Lynda Foy Photos: Colin Foy. Supporters of the project to turn a historic greenhouse into a vibrant community hub can vote to boost its funds. The Alexandra Park Greenhouse Group (APGG) in Hastings has been nominated to be […]
Hastings Voluntary Action (HVA) has worked with a local photographer to capture portraits of volunteers from organisations across Hastings to celebrate Volunteers Week 2021. These images shared on HVA’s website and social media pages are part of a wider campaign to thank volunteers for their commitment to helping others during lockdown. Steve Manwaring, CEO of […]
Hastings Borough Council (HBC) is looking for volunteers to sit on its grants advisory panel. The panel gives advice to the Hastings and St Leonards Foreshore Trust – of which the Council is the Trustee – on how surplus income from the Foreshore Trust should be distributed. Councillor Trevor Webb chairs the committee and says: […]
Hastings Oktoberfest has been given the go-ahead for 2021 after last year’s disappointment that saw the popular event cancelled due to Covid-19. Featuring what organisers call their ‘biggest and best line-up ever,’ the event will run out of Horntye Park on Saturday October 2nd from 2-10pm. “You can expect authentic German beers and bratwurst (German […]
Gardening duo Toby and Ollie Hopwood (pictured above) have won a top award for their work to help a community project at the historic greenhouse in Hastings. Brothers Toby, nine, and Ollie, 11, received the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) Level 5 School Gardening Award after submitting a 300-word article and photos about their fund-raising efforts […]
Three men – two of them from Hastings – have been convicted in connection with a deliberate house fire which killed a mother and her young son. Today (May 27th) Jacob Barnard, of Winchelsea Andrew Milne, a furniture remover, of Wilmington Road, and John Tabakis, unemployed, of Cornwallis Gardens, were each found guilty by a […]
A wall of silence has greeted any attempts to gain some clarity on an internal row over the rights of transgender people to ‘self-identify’ that is said to be tearing Hastings Labour Party apart. Last Wednesday, newly elected Labour Councillor Claire Carr, attending her first meeting, refused to back a member of the old guard–Councillor […]
