PROJECTS helping young people prepare for the world of work in and around Hastings have been given a £70,000 funding boost. Organisations in and around the Hastings area are among 21 to receive a share of £1.5 million from the Careers & Enterprise Company Opportunity Area Fund. The money has been allocated to projects in […]
Music is central to our cultural life and a driver of economic growth. That’s the simple message the Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) is sending to East Sussex County Council as it wades in to the campaign to stop the closure of East Sussex Music Service which provides music lessons in schools across the county. […]
It might seem that it started weeks ago but the official consultation process in to the future of the East Sussex Music Service has only been officially announced this week. A statement from East Sussex County Council (ESCC) says: “A public consultation on proposals to reduce the role of the county’s music service has been […]
Education secretary Damian Hinds has been in Hastings during Mental Health Awareness Week pledging a £600,000 annual investment in the town to beef up mental health services. The money will come from the Opportunity Area programme. Hastings is one of 12 ‘Opportunity Areas’ identified as social mobility ‘coldspots’ which are receiving a share of £72million […]
East Sussex Music Service is celebrating its 84th year; it delivers music lessons to around 7,000 children in schools across the county every year and around 1,000 children, aged between four and 18, attend area music centres each week. East Sussex County Council recently announced that plans are being made to close the music instrumental service by […]
THE latest phase of a hard-hitting campaign aimed at driving up school attendance rates in East Sussex has been launched. The ‘Get A Grip’ campaign uses radio and bus shelter advertising and social media to highlight the detrimental impact of any absence from school on children’s education. The third phase of the East Sussex County […]
