We’re a community outlet, so anyone in Hastings is welcome to join, and anyone is welcome to contribute.
For the minute, you can contact us via info@hastings-examiner.uk – which Merlin will be checking regularly, won’t you Merlin?
Meetings
Keep your eyes trained on our Instagram for notice of any upcoming open meetings. We typically meet on a Tuesday evening at the White Rock Hotel, but not always – so it’s best (though not strictly necessary) to check with us first if you want to come along.
Once you’ve said hi, you’re welcome to join our organising group, or just remain a contributor at your convenience.
Newsletter
We are working on a newsletter, which you’ll be able to subscribe to. That’ll come out on Sundays and give notice of what’s been happening at Hex lately, and where the next meeting will be.
Finance
We don’t have any funding at the moment – the print runs are done cheap on the Green Party’s risograph (thank you green comrades) and paid for by our organising group. The website’s also paid for from our pockets. We use a lot of open source software, partly on principle and partly because it’s much more affordable.
Print runs
If you want us to a print run on a particular topic, or work with us to print about something important to your area or your demographic, please get in touch. We might ask you to share some of the print costs and the labour of distributing, but otherwise we’re a free-to-use community service.
Ethics
While we want to be available for anyone in the community to use, even those not of our political preferences, we do have limits. If you want to join up, you should probably check out our mission statement and maybe read a few articles first.
Accessibility
We’re working on a podcast and an audio alternative to all of our written articles. We’ve crowdsourced the resources to do this, so no delay there, but the task itself will take a bit of time. If you have any other accessibility issues, hopefully you or a friend can get in touch to tell us what we need to improve.