Hastings and St Leonards Seniors' Forum

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ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SUPPORT OR CARE?

Date added: 16th December 2011

East Sussex County Council have introduced a new scheme to approve local providers of care and support services. To visit their website click here or call Trading Standards on 01323 463440 or email supportwithconfidence@eastsussex.gov.uk

COMING EVENTS

Date added: 30th January 2012

If you are aware of any events which you think may be of interest to our members please email details to webmaster@hssf.org.uk

Spring Buffet Thursday March 15th Friends Meeting House South Terrace, Hastings from 12.30pm Booking forms available at coffee morning or from Ann Lowndes

Seniors Advice Day Wednesday April 4th 10.30am-2.30pm at the WRVS Centre South St, St Leonards Free entry Advice on Crime, safety, benefits, health etc.

Coffee Mornings (Free) at the Friends Meeting House, South Terrace, Hastings 10.30-12:00

Wii Team at the Friends Meeting House, South Terrace, Hastings.
Come and Try your hand at Nintendo Sports—
a good way to do gentle exercise 13.30-16.30

There is entertainment available almost every evening in the Hastings area. For whats on in the next few days check out the UA info here

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU AT SOME OF THESE EVENTS

East Sussex Interactive Bus Map

Date added: 12th December 2010

An Interactive Bus Map showing all routes in East Sussex with links to timetables is available here

HOW MUCH DO WE OWE TODAY?

Date added: 3rd August 2011

Our National Debt gets bigger every day. Click here to see how much it is today.

Open Access to Knowledge (OAK)

Date added: 11th January 2012

The University of Brighton campus in Hastings is offering a free learning programme to people over 50 in the Hastings area. Suitable for those that have never experienced Higher Education before, the free 22-week course starts in February and students attend at the campus in Havelock Road, Hastings, two days a week.

Their Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) programme gives people over fifty years of age an opportunity to study a topic of their choice for free. It was created to give people the chance to expand their horizons, realise their potential and achieve. As some OAK students will not have been in education since they left school over 30 years ago, the OAK programme helps students learn skills in researching, writing, presenting and using computers, in a friendly and supportive learning environment.

If you are eligible for the OAK programme - simply if you're over 50 - you can study any topic that interests you. You'll research, write and present your topic with full support from course tutors and support staff at each stage of the process. Recent topics include

The programme is run on a part-time basis over 23 weeks at the university's Hastings campus from February to June.

If you are interested in applying to the OAK programme or want to know more, contact Wendy Philcox:

BUSES TO JACKSON HALL

Date added: 12th January 2012

If you want to attend a meeting at Jackson Hall but dont want to climb the hill, you can get a bus from Queens Road 1 stop to Millward Road then walk downhill down Stonefield Road and first left into Stone Street, first left into Portland Place as follows -

Route 28 from stop M (also from the Station 4 minutes earlier) at 0900 and hourly to 1500 1610

Route 29 from stop N at 0932 and hourly to 1432

Route 347 (also from the Station 5 minutes earlier) at 0935 1035 1215 1315 1415 1515

Benefits Calculator

Date added: 18th January 2012

You, like many people, may be missing out on financial help that you are entitled to through welfare benefits. This easy-to-use calculator may be of help to you if you are unemployed and looking for work, on a low income, retired, bringing up children, ill, have a disability or care for someone.

Click here to use this simple Benefits Checker to work out how much you could claim.

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