Festival.org, one of the UK’s leading outdoor arts producing organisations, is currently offering opportunities for young people (18-25) to become trustees and help shape the future of the organisation, HOT’s Zelly Restorick writes. In
Jude Montague interviews Hannah Collisson about her latest performace at Archer Lodge.
Wednesday 9 August was the launch of Hastings Rental Health’s crowdfunder. Timely news on the day that Creditfix revealed that Hastings is in the top five worst towns and cities for single parents to live! The newly formed housing cooperative has set its heart on buying Gensing Manor – the former Embassy language school at the junction of Dane Road and Charles Road. Erica Smith looks at the state of housing in Hastings and encourages you to support a group of people who are reminding us that housing should be a human right, not a commodity.
Would you like to sponsor a poster, showing creative work by an ESRA client, in a Hastings town centre bus stop billboard? Susie Warren writes.
East Sussex County Council is now under no single party’s control following Conservative losses in two recent by-elections. The Tories now have the same number of seats as all other parties and independents combined. Nick Terdre reports.
This Sunday, 6 August, from 1pm, local members of Extinction Rebellion will be staging a sit-down protest on toilets set up on the beach opposite Warrior Square, St Leonards-on-Sea, to show their disgust at Southern Water’s repeated discharges of raw sewage into the sea. Protesters will sit on the toilets as if using them, while reading mocked-up newspapers with headlines such as ‘The Daily Discharge’ and ’The Daily Evacuation’. Erica Smith finds out what has motivated this potty protest…
Hastings has a rich, colourful and fascinating history. In the 1980s a group of local people recorded their memories of growing up between the two World Wars. These tapes have lain dormant in the local archives… Until now! We are asking local residents to turn detective and help us find out more about the stories told by the people who took part in the oral history project. Kate Hodges writes.
Public protest has forced the rail companies to extend the deadline for ‘consultation’ on the mass closure England’s ticket offices to 1 September. Meanwhile, local protests against the closures continue. Gabriel Carlyle reports.
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