On Saturday 21^st March, United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, a hundred people came out in Newhaven to stand against hate and discrimination and for love and kindness. The event, organised by Lewes District Anti-Racism Alliance and Newhaven Stand Up to Racism showed the strength of feeling against racism and hate with speeches and song.

In November the recently formed Newhaven Stand Up To Racism held a march through Newhaven and a celebration of diversity at the bandstand on Denton Island. There was a fantastic turnout in spite of rain. The Anti-Racism Alliance joined other anti-racist organisations in the area, to support the event.

To celebrate Black History Month, in partnership with Lewes Town Council, Janet Baah hosted a reception to celebrate those who support and empower global majority communities in Lewes and beyond. The event was well attended and an effective networking forum.

Paul Keene from our management committee was invited to speak at an event organised by Lewes Stand Up to Racism to discuss what can be done to stop the rise in racism.

In response to the horrendous arson attack on Peacehaven mosque, many of our members attended a solidarity gathering outside the mosque on 10th October 2025 to show support for the local Muslim community Peacehaven mosque attack.

On Saturday 13th September, despite the rain, people gathered in Lewes Precinct to hear the names of some of the Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since 7 October 2023. The reading of the names started at 9.30am and continued till 4pm. About 200 people came to listen or stopped as they were passing by. This was followed by the reading of names of 18 Israeli children, in the same age group, killed on 7th October 2023 by Hamas. 

Lewes District Anti-Racism Alliance held a rally in Newhaven on Saturday 22 March, to mark United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. It is 60 years since the UN first announced this annual commemoration of those killed in the Sharpeville massacre in apartheid South Africa. 

A regiment of volunteer soldiers from the Caribbean was stationed in Seaford during World War I. Last year in October Cllr Edwina Livesey organised an exhibition about these soldiers in Lewes. This year we are working to bring the exhibition to Seaford, the home of the regiment.

On Sunday 3 November a group of about 20 people joined a walk organised by the Lewes District Anti-Racism Alliance to express solidarity with the writers of the Seven Sisters Country Park’s We Hear You Now project, whose work has recently been vandalised. The group met at the Seven Sisters Country Park Visitors Centre and split into three groups, taking different routes. 

In collaboration with the Lewes Refugee Support Group (previously LOSRAS) we organised a film night at the Hillcrest Centre, Newhaven, in July. Two films made by refugees about their experiences in this country were shown followed by talks and discussions with the filmmakers.

On Saturday 16th March The Lewes District Anti-Racism Alliance held a march along the West Quay in Newhaven to mark United Nations Anti-Racism Day, held each year to remember the 21st March 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in apartheid South Africa.