The Hastings Project is a Community Interest Company which brews beer to raise money for local charitable and community projects. We are currently raising money for Warming Up The Homeless, The Association of Carers, The Fishermen's Mission, The Refugee Buddy Project, Little Gate Farm, Hastings Voluntary Action, Surfers Against Sewage, Roots of Return and East Sussex Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service. And the plan is to go much further.
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At The Hastings Project, we're passionate about brewing excellent beer, and in turn maximising the donations to support the most vulnerable people in our community. In order for us to have real impact, we need to:
- Find a venue in which to brew/serve our beer, that can also serve as a community hub.
- Raise enough funds to create tangible change, and encourage local social activism.
- Offer meaningful employment, with training and apprenticeships, to local people.
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How are we making progress towards this goal?
For the past 3 years we've brewed many beers, all in order to raise meaningful funds for local charities and causes. We've hosted events such as pub quizzes, our Pints With Purpose events to increase engagement with local charities, ran and organised beach cleans to combat plastic pollution, and collaborated with breweries like Harvey's, Burning Sky, Utopian, Braybrooke Beer Co, Villages and Three Legs Brewery. The latter in order to highlight and combat sewage pollution from water companies into the sea, with our Red Flag campaign and beer.
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We have just taken on The Prince of Wales pub in St. Leonard's in order to increase our ability to fundraise, increase social action, and offer a community hub wear tangible change can stem from. We're bringing a pub back from 2 years of vacancy, with a focus on good quality beer, served in a friendly and welcoming environment by knowledgeable and well-trained staff. The pub will be open from Wednesday to Sunday 12pm-10pm (Fri-Sat 12pm-11pm), and on Mondays and Tuesdays it will be open to community groups and charities to host events, and use the space to help the most vulnerable people in our town. On these two days we will also be running, in conjunction with HVA, our community coffee hatch, offering free coffee for local vulnerable and homeless adults.
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If you would like to support our Crowfunder for the pub, you can do so here. You will receive 1.5x anything you donate back in Hastings Project beer behind the bar at The Prince of Wales.
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Where the pub is concerned and in terms of impacting those who we can employ, we want to equip people with the skills they need to either have for a fruitful career at THP or elsewhere. We would like to be a stepping stone, offering staff to equip themselves with qualifications from Cicerone and Cask Marque.
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Once we have established the pub as a successful, self-sustaining business, we will then move to open the brewery where we intend to go even further in our mission to support the charities, the people who we employ and the people in our community.
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