Better news for Hastings
The Deputy Mayor’s Christmas Sock Appeal is up and running again for 2019. You can donate any new and unused socks, underwear, hats, gloves and scarves, for men and women, at various locations in town. These items will be donated to Surviving Christmas - Hastings & Rother and other local charities working with the homeless and... Continue Reading →
I woke up around 3.30am last Saturday feeling the cold wind and light rain on my head – I was momentarily confused and wondering what the hell was going on writes Andy Batsford. Then I remembered I was sleeping in a cardboard box on Hastings seafront – as you do in September! I was taking... Continue Reading →
Tomorrow night will see a group of hardy souls gather at the Stade and spend the night in cardboard boxes, sleeping rough! It's the annual Hastings Big Sleep, the biggest fundraiser of the year for the Seaview Project based in Hatherley Road St Leonards. Tomorrow also sees the arrival of Seaview's new Chief Officer Dave... Continue Reading →
Where will you be sleeping on September 27th? Why not try a night out on The Stade and as part of The Big Sleep raise some money for worthy cause at the same time. The Seaview Project is holding its annual sponsored sleep-out that night to raise awareness as well as vital funds ti help... Continue Reading →
Next weekend Annie Whelan will step down as Chief Officer at the Seaview Project in St Leonards. It brings to an end her four year tenure at the head of the project that is based in the Southwater Centre on Hatherley Road and before she was Chief Officer Annie had been a trustee of the... Continue Reading →
I'm absolutely gutted I'm not going to be able to be part of The Big Sleep in 2019 writes Stuart Baillie. The number of people sleeping rough in Hastings and St Leonards is rising and I've met some of those people thanks to an early morning I spent earlier this year with the outreach team... Continue Reading →
Seaview’s sponsored mass sleep-out returns to the Stade Open Space on Friday September 27th, raising awareness and funds for some of the town’s most vulnerable people. The Big Sleep 2019 will put greater emphasis on what the Big Sleep is all about, its role in enabling Seaview to carry out its vital work in the... Continue Reading →
Homelessness and rough sleeping are big news as politicians use the issues to make political capital. But behind the headlines are real people living on the margins of society. Stuart Baillie recently joined the outreach workers from the Seaview Project on one of their regular rounds of the town, to find out about the real... Continue Reading →
Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has led a successful bid to the government for money to help reduce homelessness across East Sussex. It applied for a grant from the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government’s Accessing the Private Rented Sector initiative on behalf of Eastbourne, Lewes, Rother and Wealden Councils. The project will work with... Continue Reading →
