Rotavive Hastings

05/07/2025

Presidents night 2025

26/02/2025

Christmas jumper day raise £120 for local causes thanks A1 😍

23/12/2024

54 hampers packed and delivered into our local community thanks to The Rotary Club of Hastings and Aone Quality Homecare staff. merry Christmas everyone 🎄

15/08/2023

Rotavive (Satellite of the Rotary Club of Hastings) arranged a day out for local children to Hastings Crazy Golf with the help of the St Leonards Academy SENCO department on 18th July 2023. Rotavive funded the whole day including golf, food, and ice cream, with the academy putting on the transport and arranging the children’s attendance.

The St Leonards’ Academy is a main-stream secondary school with a Special facility for children on the Autistic spectrum and those with a Physical Disability.
As the St Leonards Academy is one of the only schools in the area with such an advanced SENCO department, they can fulfil the educational needs of children from the local area including St Leonards, Hastings, and even Battle.

Gayle Benet (Hastings Rotary Club President) Zoe Rushton (Chair of Rotavive) and Verna Irvin (Rotavive member) were joined by 20 students and 5 teachers for a full afternoon of Pirate Adventure golf. The students did not let their disabilities stand in the way of good old-fashioned competition and it wasn’t long before the hole in ones started to make an appearance. One of the best parts of the days was seeing the student encourage each other, cheering each other on and showing the children who had never been to golf before how to hold their clubs etc. The day ended with some fish and chips and of course an ice cream on the seafront. All of the children enjoyed the day and left with a massive thank you and the biggest smiles.

Rotative used the remaining charity funds to pay for 260 adventure golf tickets for students. The academy handed these out in the last assembly before the summer holidays as a “well done” to students who have shown hard work and overcome challenges over the school year.

Due to the success of the day and the request from students “can we do this again next year please” Rotavive will be planning a fundraising event to facilitate this in the near future.

17/09/2022

Queens Hotel Hastings. It's 17th September 1912 in our time machine and Gladys was writing to Miss Bannister in Crawley. Among the things that Gladys says is the infamous "I wish you were here". :-) This photograph shows well the original Italianate style of the design. The hotel opened circa 1862 and further information can be read here : https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/queens-hotel-rises-from-site-of-america-ground-1188035

17/09/2022

17/09/2022

We had a lovely catch-up with our outdoor learning to discuss the new term ahead.

We are so grateful to such a wonderful team of volunteers who have completed our courses - and now help us to run courses and maintain our grounds. Thank you!!

17/09/2022

Phil Hadland writes : "Nice bit of beach art".

17/09/2022

The Whittling in the Wild group got off to a flying start yesterday, making tent pegs and spreaders from willow we harvested ourselves...

17/09/2022

The Rotary Club of Hastings has been running 100 years providing services both locally and internationally. Every single member has the right to feel proud to be part of a community that believes of service above self. I know I am

20/12/2021

Hampers going out into the community. Merry Christmas everyone