Welcome
Welcome to the website of the Hastings Sierra Leone Friendship Link. We’re a registered charity: nº 1127137. The Link works to further the friendship that has existed between the seaside town of Hastings in East Sussex and the village of Hastings in Sierra Leone since 1999.
Please use the menu on the right to find out more about Hastings and Sierra Leone, about the history of the link leading up to the official twinning of the two towns, about the ways that Hastings UK is helping its Sierra Leonean namesake, and about past and future events. Our current big project is a ‘community resource building’ to put the heart back into the village, which was laid waste in the rebel war. We’re very proud of our school-to-school links, too, though the British Council has now stopped supporting any future teacher exchanges. We’re always trying to raise funds, of course. We didn’t organise a ‘Singathon’ in 2011 as we couldn’t afford the underlying costs, but we published a superb calendar of watercolours of Hastings & 1066 Country for 2012: only a few left! Nevertheless, we’re still desperately short of the money we need to finish the building project, and to fund the next project: to extend and equip the village’s terribly basic ‘health centre’ . If you have any ideas for raising money on our behalf or know of any funding streams we may not have applied to, please let us know!
We would be delighted to hear from you, to see you at our meetings, and to have your support. Next meeting: an ordinary meeting in the Town Hall Hastings at 6.05 on Wed 7th March.
Please come back and visit this site often – we try as hard as we can to keep it up to date.
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