The following is a list of environmental groups. Click on the blue titles to link to local group's pages on the HEN website

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Better Braybrooke

Better Braybrooke is a non-political organisation which works to improve the local neighbourhood by encouraging and assisting with environmental improvements. Better Braybrooke also aims to bring together the local authority, voluntary organisations and residents in a common effort to campaign on issues affecting our quality of life. They hold regular general meetings with guest speakers on topics such as recycling and community safety. They have also established and now manage a Pocket Park in the area.

CONTACT: Caroline Kempster

ADDRESS: Better Braybrooke, c/o Beechwood, 59 Baldslow Road, Hastings, TN34 2EY

WEB: www.betterbraybrooke.org.uk

Community Fruit and Veg Project

See the Green Business section  

East Sussex Transport 2000

The group campaigns for sustainable transport and a move away from a car dependent society for environmental, social, health and economic reasons. In particular, the group is opposed to the Bexhill to Hastings Link Road. The group meets bi-monthly in Eastbourne and Lewes, and has a volunteer based at the Hastings Trust, Robertson Street, Hastings.

CONTACT: Derrick Coffee

ADDRESS: 9 Mayfield Place Eastbourne BN22 8XJ

TEL: 01424 446373

E-MAIL: derrickcoffee@yahoo.co.uk

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Fairtrade Hastings

The Hastings Fairtrade website www.hastingsfairtrade.co.uk lists all the shops and restaurants in Hastings and St Leonards where you can buy Fairtrade products and has details of local Fairtrade events and news.

CONTACT: Stacey Lane

TEL: 01424 203347

E-MAIL: staceylane@gmail.com

WEB: www.hastingsfairtrade.co.uk

Freecycle

The Hastings Freecycle Network is open to all who want to "recycle" that special something rather than throw it away. Whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano or an old door, you can post a message via the Freecycle Yahoo group. Or maybe you're looking to acquire something yourself! Community groups are also welcome to participate too! One constraint: everything posted must be free.

WEB: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hastings-freecycle/

Friends of the Earth - Hastings and Rye

Friends of the Earth work to secure a future for people locally and worldwide through campaigning for the implementation of policies based on principles of environmental sustainability. The Friends of the Earth group in Hastings is active on a range of local issues and is part of the Hastings Alliance campaigning against the Hastings and Bexhill link road. They aim to protect the surrounding areas of outstanding natural beauty, ancient woodlands, and unique architectural and landscape heritage. They also campaign on planning issues and help and support other groups.

CONTACT: Melian Robertson

ADDRESS: 20 St. Helens Road, Hastings, TN34 2LG

TEL: 01424 716 971

E-MAIL: Laurence Homewood crlhh@tiscali.co.uk

WEB: www.hastingsandryefriendsoftheearth.co.uk

Friends of Mallydams Wood

The Friends of Mallydams Wood group supports the work of RSPCA Mallydams Wood Education and Wildlife Centre through fundraising activities held throughout the year, walks and social events e.g. picnics. The group is always looking for new members to join to help with organising events.

CONTACT: Bel Deering

ADDRESS: RSCPA, Mallydams Woods, Peter James Lane, Fairlight, Hastings, East Sussex, TN35 4AH

E-MAIL: fcanning@rspca.org.uk

Greenpeace Support Group - Hastings

This is the local branch of the national environmental campaign group.

CONTACT: Alan Turner

ADDRESS: 25 Fairlight Avenue, Hastings, TN35 5HS

TEL: 01424 435482

Hastings & Bexhill Wood Recycling Project

See the Green Business section

Hastings Urban Bikes (HUB)

Hastings Urban Bikes developed out of a public Bicycle Users Group previously run by Hastings Borough Council. Since then, HUB has established itself as the voice of the town's cyclists and engaged in a series of campaigns to meet their needs. We have around 70 members; our monthly meetings are informal and open to all. HUB members are entitled to a 10% discount on bikes and spare parts at local bike shops.

CONTACT: Nick Hanna

ADDRESS: 13 Old Humphrey Avenue, Hastings, TN34 3BT

TEL: 0845 8381569

E-MAIL: info@hastingsurbanbikes.com

WEB: www.hastingsurbanbikes.com

Hastings Alliance

The Hastings Alliance is a group representing the views of several national and local organisations as well as concerned individuals, which is opposed to the construction of the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road. The chosen route passes within metres of the Combe Haven Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), designated as one of the nation′s most important wildlife sites, and would severely damage the important biodiversity of this region.

E-MAIL: andrew@hastingsalliance.com

WEB: www.hastingsalliance.com

Hastings Against War

Hastings Against War formed in February 2003, when local peace campaigners and anti-war activists joined to oppose the invasion of Iraq. Working locally, and making links with other national groups, Hastings Against War consistently campaigned against the invasion of Iraq. Hastings Against War meets on the first and third Tuesday of each month 7.30PM Friends (Quaker) Meeting House, South Terrace, Hastings.They need help with on-going petitions and planned events on Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, against the arms trade, for a nuclear-free world, and in solidarity with the people of Palestine. They have an information stall some Saturdays between 12 and 2 PM in Hastings town centre pedestrian area outside Millet’s.

TEL:01424 433230 or 437820

E-MAIL: hastingsagainstwar@yahoo.co.uk

WEB: http://www.hastingsagainstwar.org/

Hastings Conservation Volunteers

For over 20 years Hastings Conservation Volunteers have managed many of the nature reserves in and around Hastings, including the Marline Valley LNR and the Wainright Close urban nature reserve. With a small core of highly experienced conservationist, we enable volunteers from all backgrounds, especially disadvantaged people, to play a role in managing the natural heritage of Hastings.

CONTACT: Owen Johnson

TEL: 01424 426986

E-MAIL:  owen@ojohnson.freeserve.co.uk

WEB: http://www.simonpbarker.btinternet.co.uk/hastingscv/index.html

Ore Valley Action

Ore Valley Action is a community group which is campaigning to save green space in the upper Ore Valley, to prevent overdevelopment and to seek effective regeneration and improvement of the environment.As one element of our work, they have produced a Community Plan for the ‘Speckled Wood' Project with the principal aim of having the woodland valley between Frederick Road and Victoria Avenue redesignated as urban green space (a substantial part of this valley is currently earmarked for housing development in the Hastings Borough Plan) and preserving as much of this open space as possible.

ADDRESS: c/o Salvation Army Shop,

414 London Road, Hastings, TN35 5BB

E-MAIL: orevalleyaction@hotmail.co.uk

WEB: http://www.speckledwood.org.uk/

Ore Valley Greenspaces Project

CONTACT: Matt Deering
Greenspace Development Officer
Sussex Wildlife Trust
E-MAIL: Mattdeering@sussexwt.org.uk
MOBILE: 07790350872
WEB: http://www.sussexwt.org.uk/

Rother Environmental Group (REG)

REG campaigns for the protection and enhancement of the environment in Rother and the wider area. Their priorities for action are waste, energy and water. They usually meet on the last Tuesday of every month and will hold seperate local meetings in Rye and Bexhill (and hopefully Battle) on alternate months.

CONTACT: Dominic Manning

ADDRESS: PO Box 100, Rye, East Sussex, TN31 7DP

TEL: 01797 280282

E-MAIL: info@rotherenvironmental.org.uk

WEB: www.rotherenvironmental.org.uk

SAAREA (Sol and Rainbows Environment Education and Action)

SAAREA run fun environmental workshops for children and families. This includes art, drama, story telling, music, film making and woodland walks - all with environmental themes. Most of the sessions are based at the Children's Centre, Churchwood Primary School, Church in the Wood, Hollington.

CONTACT: Mary Dawson

TEL: 01424 852668

E-MAIL: rainbowsmary@phonecoop.coop

Small Change Project

This project is no longer running

St Helens Park Preservation Society

The society is dedicated to the management of 100 acres of ancient woodland and meadows, most of which is a local nature reserve.  All of which is managed and maintained by unpaid volunteers. 

WEB: http://www.sthelenswoods.co.uk/

St Leonards and District Allotment Association

This association manages the allotment site at Vale Road and assists in any way possible in aiding and developing the site and allotment movement, cottage gardens, small holdings, bee keeping and poultry etc.

CONTACT: Jon Griffiths

TEL: 07786 556211

E-MAIL: JORG7928@hotmail.com

Transition Town Hastings

Transition Town Hastings is a group of volunteers aiming to start a town-wide community response to the challenges of climate change and peak oil. They want to bring together the collective skills and creativity in Hastings and around to evolve a sustainable low energy future reflected in an Energy Descent Action Plan. They are part of an international network of towns and cities with the same aims, the Transition Network.

CONTACT: Rachel Holtom

TEL: 01424 437652

E-MAIL:  rachel.holtom@yahoo.com

WEB: http://footprints.pbwiki.com/

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