What we do

Hastings Voluntary Action enhances the quality of life of people in the Hastings area by promoting the principle and practice of voluntary action by both individuals and organised groups, and by supporting the development of local initiatives to meet community needs. You can read about this in more detail on the  What we do page of our website

Events calendar

We provide an events calendar so organisations that have joined HVA and statutory sector partners can advertise events and training of interest to the voluntary and community sector.

News feed

We offer a news feed, which will notify you of items published to our website without you needing to regularly check back here. If you use an aggregator such as bloglines or  a social networking site such as facebook you can subscribe to our feed at http://hastingsvoluntaryaction.blogspot.com Our most recent new feeds are also set out below.

Are we there yet?

We are always trying to improve how we provide information on our website. However, we are never going to get it completely right and will always need your views on content we may have got wrong or information you feel we should be including for our membership.

If you have comments (or complements) about our website, these can be sent to the website editor ; John Humphries john@hvauk.org or phone 01424 444010

Community Partnership Fund Commissioned Grants 2009 - 2011

Hastings Borough Council have identified a list of community projects that they want to fund from April 2009, and are seeking voluntary and not-for-profit community groups to deliver these projects. All documents relevant to this process can now be downloaded from an HBC Commissioned Grants page in the fundraising section of this website.

Posted 15th August 

The State of the Voluntary And Community Sector in Hastings

Hastings Voluntay Action has recently released authoritative information about the size and role of the VCS in Hastings in PDF format called The State of the Sector.

Posted 3rd April

Prove what you do

An informative poster about our Certificate inCommunity Volunteering (CCV) is now on this website. The poster is part of promotional materials, together with a more  comprehensive leaflet about CCV  providing information about how to enrole for the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority approved course based at HVA.

Posted 25th March

Hastings Voluntary Action AGM Reports

HVA held its AGM to review its work and consult its members about its future plans. Director - Steve Manwaring gave an overview of HVA’s role and announced several new initiatives, contained in the  transcript of his presentation which can be downloaded by clicking here. Photos of the AGM and conference are presently held on our flickr album which can be viewed here. 

Posted 10th March

How the Voluntary and Community Sector can help with Economic and Social Inclusion

Hastings Voluntary Action is contributing to the development of the Hastings and Bexhill Economic Development and Inclusion Stragegy by highlighting the value of the Voluntary and Community Sector in tackling worklessness and economic exclusion. A briefing paper has been produced for this purpose and can now be downloaded in PDF format from our website by clicking here

Posted 5th March

A Consultation Page

The HVA website now has one specific page where you can click through to the consultations being carried out by each of the statutory sector organisations working in our town. In the future this page can be  found in the 'Partnerships' section of the site, or by using the 'consultations' link in the Site A-Z (top right hand button on every page).

Posted - 30th October