idverde is committed to working as part of an active community to improve the green spaces throughout the Hastings and Rother area. There are a number of Friends and Community groups in the area that work to improve the environment for residents.
Please contact us if you are a member of a group that is not yet featured.
Friends Groups
Friends of Alexandra Park
The Friends of Alexandra Park have worked on schemes such as: Bog Garden project, Green House Restoration group, potential grant application to re-design Rose Garden, fundraising for sand pit in lower park playground, tree labelling and tree walks leaflet. The Friends are partners for a Veolia £10k environmental improvement project for works in Shornden Meadow & Buckshole catchment ponds.
For more information on Alexandra Park click here
Friends of St. Leonards Gardens
The Friends hold the lease for South Lodge and open it to the public three days per week, offering guided walks and events, volunteer gardeners group, external funding bid for interpretation material for the Lodge/Gardens, project to improve building frontage, the Friends also provide welfare facilities for TLG staff.
For more information on St. Leonards Gardens click here
Friends of Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve
http://www.friendsofhastingscountrypark.org/
The Friends run an events programme, and manage external funding bids for interpretation panels and other projects, conservation volunteer tasks, staffing of visitor/interpretive centre.
Friends of Church in the Wood and Robsack Wood
The Friends run volunteer conservation task days and help with site management.
Friends of Ponds Wood / Wishing Tree Woodland Group
The Friends run volunteer conservation task days and help with site management.
Friends of Summerfields Wood*
http://summerfieldswood.webs.com/
The Friends run volunteer conservation task days and help with site manageme
Friends of Old St. Helens Church
http://oldsthelenschurch.org.uk/
Run events and open days, whilst helping with site monitoring and supervision.
Friends of Egerton Park
Marcia Linden joymar@talktalk.net
Highwoods Preservation Society
Bexhill in Bloom
Sandy Melvin sandyapecs@beamingmail.com
Old Town Preservation Society Limited
8 High Street, Bexhill Old Town, TN40 2HA, 01424 732642
Bexhill BMX Burners
Lynne and Ady Rumsey bexhillburners@live.co.uk
Sidley Wood Locals
Ricky Bollington fatrattie@gmail.com and Marc Moore marc@sourcebmx.com
Bexhill Bowls Liaison Group
Margaret Adcock margaretadcock@hotmail.com
Sports and Amenity Groups
Allotments Association
For more information on Hastings allotments click here
Bowls Association
For details of East Sussex Bowls clubs visit here
East Sussex Football League
Rother District Football Clubs:
- Bexhill AAC
- Bexhill Town Youth
- Bexhill United Ladies
- Bexhill United
- Bexhill United Youth
- Glenco
- Little Common
- Pebsham Sibex
- Rye United
Rother District Cricket Clubs:
- Bexhill CC
- Brighton & Hove CC
- Little Common Ramblers CC
- Parkhurst CC
- Rye CC
- Sidley CC
Other Groups
Friary Gardeners / Parchment Trust (Old St. Helens Church)
http://www.parchment-trust.org.uk
The Parchment Trust is a gardening charity situated nearby that work with adults with learning disabilities. They assist Friary Gardeners with grass cutting inside the church ruin and graveyard.
Autism Sussex (SACT)
http://www.autismsussex.org.uk/
SACT have a gardening group that assist with maintenance of Old Town sites (e.g. Swan Gardens, St. Clements closed churchyard, All Saints closed churchyard. This charity also runs a day centre in the old town for adults with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD).
Bohemia Walled Garden Association (* inside Summerfields Wood)
Lease walled garden in woods for food growing.
1066 Model Aeroplane Club (Bexhill Road Recreation Ground)
Hastings, Bexhill and District Freshwater Angling Association (Alexandra Park Buckshole Reservoir and Harmers Pond)
http://hastingsandbexhillangling.co.uk/
The club holds the lease for these waters and is responsible for selling day tickets & club membership, bailiffs, management for fish stock and management of banks/swims.
Clive Vale Angling Association (Clive Vale Reservoir, Harold Road)
The club holds the lease for these waters and is responsible for selling day tickets & club membership, bailiffs, management for fish stock, and management of banks/swims.
Ore in Bloom (The Green, Old London Road + Highways areas in Ore Village
Ore in Bloom assist with grounds maintenance of The Green, maintaining hanging baskets/planter and they undertake enhancement of roadside verges via tree, bulb and meadow planting.
Alexandra Park Miniature Railway
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alexandrapark-Miniature-Railway/235536436513563
The group holds the lease for the miniature railway, running train rides for the public every 1st & 3rd Sunday, they also maintain the area inside tracks and boundary fences.
Eat@
http://www.eathastings.co.uk/cafes/eat-the-park/
Eat@ run Alexandra Park Café and hold the commercial lease for all catering in the park (except major events). They run community events, manage the bandstand, provide an attendant for bowls and tennis in the park, and provide a venue for Friends meetings foc.
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