Land and nature

The community garden at St Leonards Warrior Square, started in January 2016, is our first growing project in the area. Transition Town Hastings have been transforming the environment around the station and getting local residents working and growing together. Landscape architect and artist Julia Hilton created the garden design. Warrior Square station garden was looking beautiful […]

This climate emergency strategy and action plan was developed to support the Climate Emergency motion Hastings Borough Council declared during 2019. Our vision is to make Hastings carbon neutral by 2030. It covers the borough of Hastings, however, to meet the target of carbon neutrality by 2030, the impact of this strategy, needs to ripple […]

These volunteer-run groups support our work by organising a diverse range of grass-roots activities. Ranging from speaker and fundraising events to film screenings and coffee mornings, these activities raise awareness and interest in the work of the United Nations at a local level across the country.

Project Rewild has been set up to reintroduce children back into a habitat from which they have almost completely disappeared – outdoors. We want to inspire children to climb trees in the woods, to run in wild meadows, explore rockpools along the shore, scramble over rocks, splash in muddy puddles, paddle in streams, pick wild […]

Tidy Up St Leonards is a voluntary local action team organised by John Funnell, Richard Wesley and others who feel passionately about the state of their local streets. Yes, we pay council tax and the local council has a responsibility to clean the streets, but in the face of cuts in spending and services, it is […]

A ‘connective’ of people who through our individual work, and projects we do together, inform and celebrate with the wider public the value of trees, wood and woodlands through creative and experiential methods (art, craft, music, bushcraft, story, play, activities and opportunities to learn new skills).

The West St Leonards Forum has been created by local people, is a new initiative to bring together different local community interests and people to deal with the needs and challenges of our neighbourhood. We aim to tackle the area’s social, economic and physical issues and one way we can do this is by being […]

The Bohemia Walled Garden Association was formed in 2009 in order to bring the Victorian Walled Garden in Summerfields back into active use for horticulture and associated educational and cultural activities. The Management Committee submits its annual report and financial statement for the Bohemia Walled Garden Association (BWGA) for each year ending 31st December. The garden is owned […]

Hastings Beach – White Rock Road Beachwatch organisers This beach has organisers for Beachwatch (all year round). There can be up to three organisers per beach section. Below will show you how many are currently signed up as one of the organisers for this survey section. If you wish to join in as an organiser for this […]

In 1961 the late Horace Quick (1891 – 1966), a local artist and wildlife enthusiast, gave Mallydams Wood to us so that the woodland could benefit wildlife. To help us carry out Horace’s wishes we built a small wildlife rehabilitation centre and, since the doors opened more than 50 years ago, over 35,000 sick, injured […]