Several years ago, St Leonard’s church on the St Leonards seafront was forced to close. The cliff bowl in which it sat was causing structural problems and the threat of landslip. The church dates from the 1950s, is Grade 2 listed, the work of Adrian Gilbert-Scott, with stained-glass windows by Patrick Reyntiens. Bernard McGinley reports on the church’s future.
Ann Kramer from Women’s Voice, the local women-run charity, shares details of all the events marking International Women’s Day.
This weekend, Strandliners are holding free indoor workshops at RSPCA Mallydams Wood in Fairlight. Many of you will have joined our picks and surveys. But what happens after the rubbish is sorted, identified and recorded? What happens to the data?
Hastings and St Leonards’ Compost Community held their first AGM recently, reporting on their progress, their future goals and their belief that the future resilience of the town will depend on such grassroots initiatives. Keen to be part of a local composting system and hearing of the compost hub opening at Ore Community Centre, HOT’s Zelly Restorick went along to find out more.
If you want to find out about how to prevent plastic pollution on our beaches and rivers, this is the event to attend. The focus will be
Sea Change Sussex and its stalled Queensway Gateway Road project find themselves in the spotlight in another forum after East Sussex County Council’s scrutiny committee decided to put them on their work programme. Nick Terdre reports.
On 18 November Andy Dinsdale and Beverley Coombes organised a Strandliners’ event: Preventing Plastic Pollution, funded by the EU’s Interreg fund, The Rivers’ Trust, Sea-Changers, Rother District Council and local donors. “It’s great to pick up rubbish from our natural environments and bin it, but is it enough?”, asks Andy. “What more can we do to prevent the plastic pollution in the first place?” HOT’s Zelly Restorick, a rubbish-picker-upper since coming to Hastings over 20 years ago, attended this event and reports on what she and the team did to go that extra mile. (All images provided by
The Clifton Centre, as Southwater Area Community Centre has renamed itself, has just launched a Crowdfunder in support of its project to install a new lift. The centre recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. HOT’s Nick Terdre, a trustee of the centre, reports.
HOT is run by volunteers but has overheads for hosting and web development. Support HOT!
Advertise your business or your event on HOT for as little as £20 per month
Find out more…
If you like HOT and want to keep it sustainable, please Donate via PayPal, it’s easy!
Do you want to write, proofread, edit listings or help sell advertising? then contact us
Get our regular digest emails
Follow our Facebook page and keep up with the latest news from HOT
If you have any complaints or believe HOT to be acting out of turn please contact us in the first instance and explain the issue as clearly as you can.
Click here to find out more about our complaints procedure.
