Community Hub

The British Red Cross helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are.
We are part of a global voluntary network, responding to conflicts, natural disasters and individual emergencies.

We help vulnerable people in the UK and abroad prepare for, withstand and recover from emergencies in their own communities.

The services we provide are:

Voluntary Services provided from the Hayling Centre are:

• - Mobility Aids - loan of wheelchairs, walking aids and other medical equipment
• - First Aid - cover for public and private events, basic first aid training
• - Hand, Arm and Shoulder Massage  - residential care home visits and public events
• - Fundraising  - annual Red Cross Week money collections, second hand goods sales, clothes sales and other social events

Open hours:  Monday to Friday 10am to 12noon and 2pm to 4pm

New members always welcomed

Situated at the extreme eastern end of Hayling Island at the entrance to Chichester Harbour, the Hayling Island Lifeboat Station provides  24 hour  marine emergency cover.

Our volunteer crews provide cover for the 10,000 boat owners and their crews who are based in Chichester Harbour and to all mariners in the eastern approaches to the Solent.

The Paris to Hayling Charity Cycle Ride started in 1986, when Peter McQuade, now President of the Ride, cycled alone from Paris to Hayling raising money for cot death research, following the death of the baby daughter of two close friends. Like many subsequent riders he had no great cycling experience. However, as the trip turned out to be easier than he had anticipated he persuaded another 17 cyclists to join him the following year.

The ride is now in it's 33rd year and the 2018 ride will leave Portsmouth on Sunday 1st July 2018 travelling to Versailles arriving back in Hayling Island on Saturday 7th.

To date the ride has raised over £1.5 million pounds for charity with 100% of the monies raised going to charity. over 2000 riders have taken part over the years with many participants coming from all over the country. This is widely regarded as one of the most successful charity events run on the south coast.

Sue Ryder has two charity shops on the Island. We have 13 care centres across the UK, providing compassionate care and support for people with palliative, long-term and end of life needs. Our care services enable us to give support and care to people in residential and day centres, day clinics, in the community and in the comfort of their home.

We train and educate healthcare professionals, both our own healthcare professionals and for other external organisations. We work collaboratively with the Sue Ryder Centre for Palliative and End of Life Studies at the University of Nottingham. At Sue Ryder we’re passionate about providing incredible care to people in desperate need. That is why we also operate internationally and have done for over 20 years.

Bringing local news to the blind and visually impaired.

Each fortnight our dedicated volunteers produce and dispatch 60 minutes of local news in audio-cassette or memory stick format as a completely free service to our listeners. We also produce a quarterly magazine, Look Hear, containing music, quizzes, poems, stories, entertainment and interviews.

19 East Street Havant Hampshire PO9 1AE

Tel: 023 9248 0101

Haylings Best is an award winning group that was initially formed via the Market Towns Initiative to bring a new lease of life to our community, so that we can provide convenient access to the services that townspeople and surrounding communities depend on. Our aim is to promote Hayling Island as a vibrant, viable and independent community.

Our members projects include: Hayling Scarecrows, Playing on the Plaza. the Copp Memorial, Cycle Hayling, Hayling Billy 50 and Discover Hayling. We are continuing to develop programmes that take our community forward and also provide support to projects that share our aims to benefit the Hayling Island community.

The club was formed in 1964 by a group of local businessmen as a way of returning something worthwhile to the community, which supported their various businesses. It was thought best to support the less privileged in our society by means of various fund raising events. This is still the basic philosophy and there are now two key fundraising events each year. The annual BBQ at the Northney Farm and the Cabaret night currently held at Mill Rythe.

Currently most of our fund raising goes to financing the a mini-bus that we provide for the use of local charities. We are however able to support a number of local groups with donations from time to time and recent donations include: local scouts, Hayling United, and Hayling young at heart.

The Hayling Island Lions club was formed in 1997 and is part of Lions Clubs International the world's largest and premier International Voluntary Service Organisation.

Since its formation the Hayling Lions have created a reputation for help and assistance widely respected by our community. We currently have 29 members drawn from all walks of life and experience and we meet every second and fourth Thursday in the month at 7.30 p.m. at the Langstone Hotel, Northney Road, Hayling Island, PO11 0NQ. 

Locally we work to support the Hayling Island community through funds raised at our charity shop and various fundraising activities that are held throughout the year.

Full details of our work in the Hayling Island Community ids detailed on our web site.