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Grants and contracts

Money coming in to Hastings that funders have published: £19.7m across 437 grants, 2019–2026.

Funding: grant and loan rounds open to apply to, and who has funded work here in the last three years.

Money going out. Hastings Borough Council paid out £46m in the twelve months to August 2026 (+7% on the year before), by its own published payments over £250.

See where it went
0£2m£4m£6mSeptember 2025: £4.0mSep 25October 2025: £3.6mOct 25November 2025: £3.1mNov 25December 2025: £2.9mDec 25January 2026: £3.0mJan 26February 2026: £3.1mFeb 26March 2026: £4.8mMar 26April 2026: £4.2mApr 26May 2026: £3.3mMay 26June 2026: £6.0mJun 26£6.0mJuly 2026: £4.6mJul 26August 2026: £3.0mAug 26£3.0m
The twelve months as figures
Sep 25£4.0m
Oct 25£3.6m
Nov 25£3.1m
Dec 25£2.9m
Jan 26£3.0m
Feb 26£3.1m
Mar 26£4.8m
Apr 26£4.2m
May 26£3.3m
Jun 26£6.0m
Jul 26£4.6m
Aug 26£3.0m
£9.4m recorded against the borough
£10.3m wider constituency (includes Rye)
437 awards from 3 funders

Treat these figures as a minimum. We count a grant when the funder recorded it against Hastings, or when the organisation that received it gives a Hastings postcode as its address. Money that reached the town but was filed under East Sussex, the South East or nationally, to an organisation based elsewhere, is not counted here, and funders who do not publish open grants data do not appear at all. So the real figure is higher, and we cannot say by how much.

Of the total, £10.3m across 186 grants was recorded against the wider Hastings and Rye parliamentary constituency, which also covers Rye.

Awarded is not the same as spent. A grant appears here when it was awarded; whether it has been drawn down, and what it achieved, is not something this data can tell you.

The largest awards

The twelve biggest published grants on the record. Awarded is not the same as spent.

Who received it

Each organisation's page shows its funding alongside everything else we hold about it.

All streets and places

The twenty largest of 40 recipients on the record. Every one is in the grants dataset, and each has its own page.

By funder

Which funders show up in Hastings, and how much they have published against it.

By year

When the money was awarded. A thin year may mean fewer grants, or a funder that hasn't published yet, and we can't tell which.

What public bodies are buying

Money going out: contract notices from the two national services, Contracts Finder (below-threshold) and Find a Tender (above-threshold). A notice is on the record when the buyer is a Hastings council, when the notice states a delivery postcode in the borough, or when the buyer (the NHS, the college, a housing association) or winning supplier is itself based here. Each row says which of these reasons applies.

These are minimums, not totals. Below-threshold notices reach Contracts Finder at the buyer's discretion, and our record starts on Wed 15 Jul 2026, so earlier contracts aren't shown. County-council notices cover the whole county and are labelled, never counted as Hastings spending.

Listed first: contracts the borough council is buying or holds on its own contracts register; notices that state a delivery postcode, or the buyer's or the winning firm's own address, in a Hastings ward; and notices whose title or description names Hastings, St Leonards, a postcode in TN34, TN35, TN37 or TN38, or a Hastings ward. Ashdown, Baird, Castle, Conquest, Ore and St Helens count only as “Castle ward” and so on, because those words name other things too. The TN postcode districts reach a little beyond the borough, into Pett and the edge of Bexhill. Everything else on the record is under “County-wide and elsewhere in East Sussex”, on the same page.

Open to bid

Notices still open, soonest deadline first. Each notice says how to respond. Every notice, wherever it is, appears in the opportunities feed, and its closing date in the deadlines calendar. Neither needs an account.

No notice open to bid is in or for Hastings at the moment, by the rule above.

County-wide and elsewhere in East Sussex (2)

The county council's other open notices, soonest deadline first. The county buys for the whole county, so the work isn't necessarily in Hastings.

A tag saying a notice suits small firms (SME) or charities and social enterprises (VCSE) appears only where the notice itself says so. Whether a notice suits you is for you to judge from the notice. The code after a notice is its CPV code, the procurement vocabulary every notice uses for what is being bought.

Recently awarded

Awarded is not the same as spent, and the council's own papers hold the decision behind each contract.

County-wide and elsewhere in East Sussex (12)

The 12 most recent of the county council's other awards.

Grants to voluntary and community groups: The council's budgets page lists monthly files of grants paid to charities up to September 2014, and none since. What the borough publishes

Grants data from 360Giving publishers, used under their published licences. Contracts data from Contracts Finder, Open Government Licence v3. Corrections are made in place, with a note saying what changed.

Run a local organisation? The business page answers the questions a trader is likely to ask, about funders, contracts, open consultations and planning near your premises, and says what we can't answer yet.