Big Local’s small grants to benefit North-East Hastings residents

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 […]

#ImGoingforZero – campaign launched to ‘kick Covid out of Hastings’ for good!

In a major public campaign, Hastings’ community leaders are joining forces to ‘kick Covid-19 out of Hastings’ once and for all. Tagged #ImGoingforZero, Hastings Community Hub – which brings together all the organisations supporting people through the pandemic – has launched a huge promotional campaign to help everyone in the town get life back to […]

You CAN make it happen – with a little help from HVA

Have you heard about Making It Happen? A project that supports people to develop their community ideas into action. Believing that individuals have much to offer their neighbourhoods the Hastings Voluntary Action project will chat with people and guide them,helping make their ideas a reality. Su Barnicoat the Hastings Making It Happen worker says: “Individuals […]

The power of pictures – providing Hastings with a permanent piece of public art

Hastings Voluntary Action has been supporting local residents for more than 30 years and to celebrate this and also to highlight the amazing efforts of our local community the charity wants to create a permanent ‘photo-mosaic’ artwork that will be sited in Hastings and involve as many of its local volunteers and active community as […]

New town centre base for local credit union

Hastings and Rother Credit Union needs more volunteers to help it achieve its objectives for the coming years. Speaking at the organisation’s Annual General Meeting last Monday President Richard Street told memebers: “Anyone who is competent in finance and office procedures would be especially valuable and be very welcome.” He asked that anyone interested get […]