The Hastings fishing industry is netting the benefits of £500,000 investment through the Hastings Regeneration Partnership, the Council and the European Union. The industry, which supports over 60 sea and shore-based jobs, has benefited from a range of measures:
Environmental and Security – The winch road has been resurfaced, car park access barriers installed. CCTV cameras monitored by the police, security lighting, and two street wardens now patrolling the area all aim to reduce crime on the Stade.
Business Development – The fishermen’s chandlery co-operative and the fish market have both been improved, a new ice-making plant installed, and IT training and new computers have been supplied. Hastings fisheries are now certified as environmentally friendly, having gained the industry’s coveted ‘green’ Marine Stewardship Council award, which helps create new markets, as part of a diversification plan.
Tourism and Education – The museum has been improved and the historic boat the ‘Edward & Mary’ restored. Old equipment and rubbish have been cleared from the beach, and schools have been given an insight into how the industry works through the ‘Walking the Fish’, event at the ‘Shorething’ extravaganza.
The work is not over, with crustacean nursery pens to be fitted, ready for next year’s season.
Find out more about the local fishing industry past and present on the new website: www.hastingsfish.co.uk
The physical products or measurable activity projects, e.g. number of training places provided, number of dwellings improved.
Long term benefits arising from project activities, e.g. reduced unemployment, better business survival rate, reduced crime. Outcomes should be measured against baselines.
A description of current local conditions and recent trends, against which outcomes are measured.
Active participation by people in their communities and civic life generally.
If children can be taught to enjoy reading, they can learn anything.
Spare an hour a week at your local school to help a child to read, and you could significantly raise their reading age as well as giving him or her real ability and opportunities.
Hastings already has 25 volunteer Reading Partners, yet all our local primary and secondary schools need more. Please contact the Hastings & Rother Education Business Partnership on 781757.
Help a child to read and you show them the earth.
Unemployment is way down, GCSE pass rates are on the way up, and more people are commanding higher salaries. All this information and more is now available through a link on the Council’s web site under the heading, Hastings Observatory.
Hastings Regeneration Partnership has been pulling together official national and local data as part of its work to assess the long-term regeneration of Hastings. The Observatory has a fascinating and useful breakdown of the last census results and is an easy gateway to information for everyone interested in how Hastings and St Leonards is shaping up. The site is divided into seven sections:
With contributions from Hastings Borough Council, Hastings and St Leonards Primary Care Trust, East Sussex County Council and Sussex Police, the Observatory is a one-stop-shop for reliable, ‘bang-up-to-date’ statistics and trends in our town.
Every project receiving funds from Hastings Regeneration Partnership reports on both expenditure and the result of their activities over the year. Some of last year’s achievements are:
Last year HRP pulled in £3.3m of new Single Regeneration Budget money into the borough. This was matched by £3.7m of other public sector money, plus a remarkable £10m invested by the private sector.
Hastings Regeneration Partnership brings together the voluntary, public and private sectors to spend £26 million Single Regeneration Budget money provided through South East England Development Agency. With matched funding, the 100 local projects pull in a total of £128 million for social, economic and physical regeneration.
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This page last updated: 24/08/2004