From the RNLI to The Dove Café, we’ll turn Hastings beach into a living patchwork quilt.
Wear orange, the colour of Courage.
Bring your loved ones – human and furry alike.
Stand together. Be seen.
To open Refugee Week 2026, we’re inviting our whole Hastings & St Leonards community to come together on Hastings beach
Bring your project, your business, your organisation, your people, alongside your family, friends and pets, and take your place in a human patchwork quilt stretching from the RNLI to The Dove Café we will – Wear orange. Stand together. Be visible and holds hands stretching across the beach in a show of courage.
This event and experience will be filmed & photographed as a show of solidarity with refugee’s.
Watch this space for locations/business which will be listed as meeting points from 5pm, and across the seafront ‘Orange flags’ will be placed as meeting points ready to hold hands.
Meeting points, 5pm, look for the large orange flags:
Meeting point 1
RNLI
On the beach by the Harbour Arm
Meeting point 2
Bullet Cafe
Either side of the Pier
Meeting point 3
Goat Ledge
Meeting point 4 5pm
Dove cafe
By the Jimmy Riddle statue
For more information contact:
A community initiative in partnership with Hastings Community of Sanctuary and The Refugee Buddy Project.
Thank you to Caitlin Lock at Hastings Photo Studio (@ The Yard, Hastings) for donating production services to this project.