At a packed meeting at the East Hastings Sea Angling Association’s clubhouse on Sunday 3rd March and after paying all the expenses of running the carnival in 2012 £4,000 of the cash collected at last year’s pram race and Hastings Old Town Carnival was distributed amongst local good causes – including the RNLI who also won the trophy shield for the largest amount collected,   
The lucky recipients were

2nd Hastings Rainbows, 2nd Hastings Brownies, Salvation Army Kidszone, Salvation Army Triple 20's Club, Senlac 1066 High Steppers, Crest Playgroup, Dragonflies take Flight, Fellowship of St Nicholas, Hastings Coastal Twirlers, Torfield School, Hastings West Hill Boxing Club, Gizmo Theatre Group, Coastguards, Red Cross,Fire Emergency Support Hastings, St John Ambulance, Hastings & St Leonards Life Guards, Mencap Gateway Club, Seaview Project, Autism Sussex, Association of Carers, Hastings Sanctuary, Shopmobility Hastings, Surviving Christmas, Hastings Vol Assoc for the Blind, Hastings Hospital Radio, Royal British Legion, Rock a Nore Football Club, RSPCA Hastings, St Michaels Hospice, Sara Lee Trust, Huntingtons Disease Assoc., Two Towers Trust, Samaritans, Hastings Trolley Bus Restoration Group, Penny Beale Memorial Trust, Parchment Trust, The Community Club, FOCUS on Mental Health, Hurstwood Park Neurology Dept, East Sussex Astronomical Society

Hastings Old Town Carnival Committee (well, most of them)

Back row, from the left, John Pond, Nadine Salmon, Treasurer Kate Martin, D-day White, Sue Castro, Ion Castro, Keith Veness, Tom Leitch.