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Slides used by Jess Steele, Trustee at Hastings Pier Charity, at the Big Local spring event in Waterloo, organised as part of the Local Trust programme of networking and learning events for Big Local residents. The event took place on Saturday 17 May 2014.
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Jess SteeleTreasurer, Friends of Hastings Pier (2006-2008)
Treasurer, Hastings Pier & White Rock Trust (2008-13)
Trustee, Hastings Pier Charity (2011-14)
Director, White Rock Trust (2013+)
DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO US…
Map showing the location of the pier, the White Rock area and the three other ‘zones’ of Hastings – Old Town, Town Centre & St Leonards.
The black line indicates the boundaries of Central St Leonards and Castle wards, both of which are in the 10% most deprived wards in the UK.
INDEPENDENT LOCAL TRUSTEES
The moral high ground…is never enough
Everything we were saying made sense and fitted with government and council policy
© JonHailsham (Flickr.com)
But they were looking for…a fairy godmother
who was just never going to show up
• …informing the public
“Listening to Hastings”
12th July 2010
Tragedy strikes
But the pier survives
“Southeastern Railways welcome the Heritage Lottery Fund to Hastings”
“Priory Meadow Shopping Centre & local businesses welcome the Heritage Lottery Fund to Hastings”
One copy of our Round 2 bid to HLF
Pier Vision
It is possible…if you work together and
believe in the future
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance; yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness.”
Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759)
The quick version of Alinksy’s Rules:
1. Power is what they think you have2. Never go outside your people’s experience3. Go outside the enemy’s experience4. Make them stick to their own rules5. Ridicule is the most powerful weapon6. Enjoy the action, have fun7. Drag is a drag8. Keep the pressure on9. Threat worse than the action10. Don’t be afraid of the negative11. The price of a successful attack is a constructive
alternative12. Pick the target, freeze it, personalise it, polarise it.
CONCLUSIONS
It takes ages!
Build your numbers
Take politicians to the brink
The psychology of ‘risk’
Keep retelling the story
Enterprising from the off
Help and info
www.locality.org.uk
www.mycommunityrights.org.uk
www.meanwhile.org.uk
www.whiterocktrust.org.uk
www.jerichoroad.co.uk
www.hpcharity.co.uk
