Category: <span>HOT Topics</span>

Support from Hastings Voluntary Action

In their latest bulletin, Hastings Voluntary Action

Posted 07:34 Monday, Apr 13, 2020 In: Covid-19 Tags: Hastings Voluntary Action

How can businesses diversify and help the Coronavirus cause?

Coronavirus represents one of the biggest challenges for a generation, not just for us as individuals and families, but also for businesses around the globe. This is an unprecedented situation that is changing rapidly every day and leaving business owners and their staff feeling unequipped and unprepared. Ellie Clow, Communications Officer for South East Local Enterprise Partnership writes.

Posted 07:06 In: Covid-19 Tags: Selep

Coronavirus daily statistical update: signs of levelling out in South East’s profile

As the coronavirus works its way towards peak effect, HOT is providing a daily update of the statistics for our region provided by the public health authorities. Numbers of confirmed cases, deaths and hospital bed occupation are all showing signs of plateauing. An interactive chart and map are now included in the update. Text and charts by Russell Hall.

Posted 22:21 Sunday, Apr 12, 2020 In: Covid-19 Tags: coronavirus covid-19-archive Public Health England Russell Hall statistics

Relief over safe arrival of cross-channel refugees

Local refugee support organisations have expressed relief that several dozen people who last week made landfall in Hastings and Winchelsea after crossing the Channel in small boats arrived safely and without serious injury. Nick Terdre reports.

Posted 20:57 In: Campaigns Tags: covid-19 Hastings Community of Sanctuary Hastings Supports Refugees Nick Terdre Paul Barnett Refugee Buddy Project

Hastings Museum seeks volunteers to keep Covid-19 journals

What to do in these strange limbo days? We are constantly being told that these are unprecedented times. And indeed they are. HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths was intrigued by Hastings Museum and Art Gallery‘s call-out for volunteers to keep a diary of these Coronavirus days.

Posted 13:08 In: Covid-19 Tags: coronavirus covid-19 Hastings Museum and Art Gallery Kim Forward Lauris Morgan-Griffiths

Coronavirus daily statistical update: plateau near for hospital numbers in the South East?

As the coronavirus works its way towards peak effect, HOT is providing a daily update of the statistics for our region provided by the public health authorities. Signs emerged today that the number of hospitalised patients in the South East may be plateauing. Text and charts by Russell Hall.

Posted 22:02 Saturday, Apr 11, 2020 In: Covid-19 Tags: coronavirus covid-19-archive Russell Hall statistics

Care home’s newspaper keeps residents and families connected

As social distancing in the UK continues, local care home Hastings Court has created their own newspaper, the Hastings Court Crier, in a bid to keep families connected with their loved ones. Their latest news release follows.

Posted 14:33 Friday, Apr 10, 2020 In: Covid-19 Tags: Hastings Court

Covid capitalism or corvée?

Covid-19 raises questions about our economic model and whether we can continue with it when the corona virus crisis is over. Kendal Eaton, author of A Chance for Everyone: The Parallel Non Monetary Economy, proposes a new economic approach with the corvée – unpaid labour – at its heart.

Posted 19:50 Thursday, Apr 9, 2020 In: Point of View