Hastings Mens Network

08/11/2025

The men have been out and about with the apple press during October & November.... First year pressing at a food bank

28/10/2025

🔥🌳Men's Fire circle this Thursday 30th October 7-9pm at 26 The Slides, Hollington. Donation to cover venue.
Theme: Into the Winter... A time of dormancy
Facilitators: Andy & Neil
If you've never been to a fire circle before it's a chance for men to connect, share and learn with other men. We're outside and all men are welcome 🌳🔥

24/10/2025

Apple season is here. Come apple pressing at events in and around Hastings

24/10/2025

16/10/2025

Well done to former St Leonards resident Simon for calling out toxic masculinity on Channel 4 News

A Channel 4 News investigation reveals shocking allegations against Mike Thompson, who authored the memoir The Penguin Lessons under the pen name ‘Tom Michel...

22/09/2025

🔥🌳Men's Fire circle this Thurs 25th Sep 7-9pm at Glenns, The Slides, Hollington, Hastings.

Theme: Balance of dark and light
-Donation to cover fire space and bring a dish to share (to go with the soup provided)
Facilitators: Chris & Adam 🌳🔥

18/08/2025

Death of men recently:
We were sad to hear of the death of Nick Clements and Joe Smith recently.
-Nick spoke at the pop up community conference in Hastings, May 2018 as an invited elder about working with men, life and the four genders model amongst other things. This marked the start of A Band of Brothers Hastings. A big heart, wild stories and a love of art, Nick , ran a men' group in Gloucestershire and pop up men's conferences that inspired the men's work in Hastings (the video below is Nick's introduction to his Hastings talk-an example of how we can all remember our humanness) To see more of Nick's work including his real men conferences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQRG2RxUZMw
Nick's talks: https://www.youtube.com//videos
-Joe was one of the first A Band of Brothers Hastings mentees. He was mentored by Stu. Joe was a father to Arthur, a cheeky chap like his Dad. Whilst he had challenges in life he also was caring, helping out others in need and courageous. Joe was 29.
-When hearing of Joe's death in St Helen's Woods an owl was twit twooing a reminder of Hastings legend Grey Owl aka Archibald Belaney who also died young at the age of 49 . An oak tree marks his memory in St Helen's Woods which we saw on the recent walk & BBQ. Grey Owl was one of the first conservationists in the UK and his remarkable story is told in the Richard Attenborough film of his life with Pierce Brosnan as Grey Owl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7loOrrteCw . Richard and David Attenborough attended one of Grey Owl's lectures in 1936 inspiring them both with his stories of nature conservation. You can see a replica of Grey Owl's hut that he shared with beavers in Hastings Museum.

18/08/2025