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Hastings Car Free Day Street Party

Hastings Seafront Eversfield Place, Hastings

Imagine the seafront road with no traffic! Car Free Day is a global event which invites towns and cities to experience the streets of their towns free of cars. Hastings’s first-ever Car Free Day celebration will take place on a stretch of the seafront road from Warrior Square Gardens to the White Rock Theatre (Eversfield Place to Verulam Place). It will be an opportunity for the community to come together and celebrate this recognised day, as well as sustainable forms of transport. A range of...Continue Reading "Hastings Car Free Day Street Party" →

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Green Fingers Community Garden Project

Y Centre St Pauls Road, St Leonards on Sea

This free Green Fingers community garden project is on the grounds of the Y Centre and is run by The Art Shack, a creative and well-being space. The community garden runs on a Sunday each week 1pm–3pm and Wednesday 11am–3pm. It brings people together to make and create a space from nothing out of nothing. Grow veg and flowers in a calm friendly environment. Just pop along no booking required!  

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Energy Advice Drop in

Hastings Contact Centre Contact Centre at Hastings Town Hall Queens Road, Hastings, east Sussex, United Kingdom

For any help or advice with your energy and water bills come along to Energise Sussex Coast's pop up energy advice desk in the Contact Centre in Hastings Town Hall  (the entrance is opposite the entrance to Priory Meadow Shopping Centre). We can help you: Switch to a cheaper provider. Sort out any problems with your current provider. Check whether you are entitled to the Warm Home Discount and other grants. Remember to bring along your recent bills and if possible a meter reading. Accessible...Continue Reading "Energy Advice Drop in" →

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Stop Funding Climate Change!

Printed Matter Bookshop 185 Queens Road, Hastings, East Sussex, United Kingdom

Find out how to get involved in the campaign to get East Sussex County Council to stop funding climate change (event includes a screening of the short film 'Divest') It makes no sense to invest in companies that undermine our future. We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet - Desmond Tutu   According to David Attenborough “we could face irreversible damage to the natural world and the collapse of our societies” unless we take rapid and dramatic action to tackle climate change. East...Continue Reading "Stop Funding Climate Change!" →

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Learn about Hastings Fishing – Guided Walk

Stade Hall 20 Rock-A-Nore Rd,, Hastings, United Kingdom

Take a guided walk with Yasmin from the Hastings Fisherman's Society to learn more about our local fishermen. Hastings is one of Britain’s oldest fishing ports. Boats have worked from the beach in front of the ancient town for over a thousand years, supplying Hastings with its basic industry and main tourist attraction. The Hastings Fishermen’s Protection Society preserves the fishing community’s medieval right to carry on using that beach – known as the Stade – for ever, free of charge. Meeting point: Stade Hall,...Continue Reading "Learn about Hastings Fishing – Guided Walk" →

Open access bicycle workshop

The Old Lifeguard Stores, on the Lower Promenade, in front of Warrior Square.

A free to access, volunteer run, weekly community bicycle workshop. We provide access to skills, advice, spare parts and tools. We help people who can’t afford to go to a bike shop, fix, build and maintain their bikes and we encourage a DIY skill sharing culture for those who wish to learn and contribute. Every Wednesday evening 6-8 PM, The Old Lifeguard Stores, on the Lower Promenade, in front of Warrior Square. If Queen Victoria is behind you, come down the steps and we’re there.

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Warrior Square Station Community Garden open day

St Leonards Warrior Square Station Saint Leonards-on-sea

A special session at Transition Town Hastings' community garden with a guided tour. Come along and say hi to the team tea and cake will be served! Open to all to join with a friendly, relaxed, group of volunteers.   I walk past your garden on my way to work in Kings Road, and I have to say it truly brightens my day! Thank you all for your efforts, and I shall, if it is agreed with your chalk boards, help myself now and again....Continue Reading "Warrior Square Station Community Garden open day" →

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Norman Goes Green – Green Market at Tommy’s Pizzeria

Tommy's Pizzeria 28 Norman Rd, St Leonards-on-sea, East Sussex, United Kingdom

The second monthly Green Market at Tommy's will see local traders selling sustainably made and low waste products. From plastic free toiletries, recycled and organic cotton clothing to vegan treats. To take place in the courtyard at Tommy's Pizzeria from 10am–1pm. We will have recycling collection points for the following items: - Torn tights and hosiery - to be sent to Swedish Stockings to recycle - Broken inflatables - to be sent to Wyatt & Jack to be made into bags and accessories - Small...Continue Reading "Norman Goes Green – Green Market at Tommy’s Pizzeria" →

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Soil, society, sustenance, solutions – Supper event with Tristram Stuart, Craig Sams and Pea Pod Veg.

Home Ground Kitchen Gotham Alley, Hastings, East Sussex

We're really pleased to announce this special event with key speakers discussing issues around sustainable food production, food waste, food sovereignty and soil health. Speakers will be addressing the question of what can we do to support the planet as well as feed a global population. Meet the Speakers: Craig Sams, Founder of Green And Blacks Chocolate and co-founder and Executive Chairman of Carbon Gold Ltd, a carbon sequestration business based on the use of biochar as a soil improver. Tristram Stuart, Food Waste campaigner, founder...Continue Reading "Soil, society, sustenance, solutions – Supper event with Tristram Stuart, Craig Sams and Pea Pod Veg." →

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Avoiding Earthxit

EAST HASTINGS SEA ANGLERS ASSOCIATION The Stade, Rock-A-Nore Rd (opposite RNLI), Hastings

3 talks unpacking how to form The Parallel Non-Monetary Economy of the 99% How do we address Climate Crisis more rapidly WITHOUT waiting for political and corporate engagement? The answer is the Parallel Non-Monetary Economy of the 99%. Three talks from articles appearing in International Times unpack the processes required, the existing agencies and movements that can establish this EXISTING SEPARATE economy in just 2 years, without requiring money or conflicting with existing global capitalism. From author of forthcoming book - 'A Chance For Everyone:...Continue Reading "Avoiding Earthxit" →

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