I woke up around 3.30am last Saturday feeling the cold wind and light rain on my head – I was momentarily confused and wondering what the hell was going on writes Andy Batsford. Then I remembered I was sleeping in a cardboard box on Hastings seafront – as you do in September! I was taking […]
Tomorrow night will see a group of hardy souls gather at the Stade and spend the night in cardboard boxes, sleeping rough! It’s the annual Hastings Big Sleep, the biggest fundraiser of the year for the Seaview Project based in Hatherley Road St Leonards. Tomorrow also sees the arrival of Seaview’s new Chief Officer Dave […]
Where will you be sleeping on September 27th? Why not try a night out on The Stade and as part of The Big Sleep raise some money for worthy cause at the same time. The Seaview Project is holding its annual sponsored sleep-out that night to raise awareness as well as vital funds ti help […]
Next weekend Annie Whelan will step down as Chief Officer at the Seaview Project in St Leonards. It brings to an end her four year tenure at the head of the project that is based in the Southwater Centre on Hatherley Road and before she was Chief Officer Annie had been a trustee of the […]
I’m absolutely gutted I’m not going to be able to be part of The Big Sleep in 2019 writes Stuart Baillie. The number of people sleeping rough in Hastings and St Leonards is rising and I’ve met some of those people thanks to an early morning I spent earlier this year with the outreach team […]
When Seaview won its GSK/Kings Funds Impact Award last year – one of only eight organisations in the country to do so the judges said of it: “This charity does hugely valuable work in supporting its local community. We were impressed by how it has a big reach despite being relatively small. It shows an […]
