The Clifton Centre in Central St Leonards has been awarded a grant of £55,000 by Biffa Award for the installation of a new lift and other improvements. Work is due to start this Spring and be completed by Autumn. The grant was awarded following a successful campaign that showed strong local support for the community centre, involving both a crowdfunder and grants from local benefactors Isabel Blackman Foundation and Hastings Roundtable.
HOT’s Judy Parkinson will think twice about recycling her phone in a hurry after taking in a spectacular double bill at Hastings Contemporary showing the work of Ethiopian artist Elias Sime and Sir Quentin Blake.
The Hastings District of the National Education Union are subsidising train tickets to this Saturday’s (16 March) national #StopRacism protest in London. Simon Hester, convenor of Hastings Stand Up To Racism, explains why you should take part.
Hastings environmental campaign group Combe Haven Defenders (CHD) has closed its account with Barclays bank, in protest at the company’s role in weapons sales to Israel. Gabriel Carlyle reports.
Young carers in East Sussex will call for a fair future and call on the government for more support from local and national government on Young Carers’ Action Day (13 March). Cally Emerson writes.
Earlier this year, two of three Bloodaxe poets, Matthew Caley and Amali Gunaskera, talked to Hastings Online Press ahead of their joint reading at the Hastings Bookshop. Here Jude Montague catches up with the third poet, Abigail Parry.
In a sign of the growing revolt against water companies, bill boycotters are due to stage their first Town Hall event in East Sussex next week.
For its spring concert the Hastings Philharmonic Choir will perform the St Matthew Passion by JS Bach, accompanied by the baroque Ensemble OrQuesta. Press officer Gareth Simpson explains the background to the work.
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