Economics/Class Relations

Inside Britain’s ‘warm spaces’ – where people go when they can’t afford to heat their homes

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Greenside Cricket Club is one of 65 venues across the borough of Gateshead that have signed up to be “warm spaces” for people – similar schemes have been set up all over the UK sometimes with different names but all doing the same sort of thing.

Tom Parmenter

National correspondent @TomSkyNews

“It’s Victorian isn’t it?” asks Hannay Reay as she contemplates just what they are doing.

She’s sprucing up the players’ lounge her son uses in the summer as a player at their local cricket club so it can be used as a “warm space” this winter – offering locals somewhere to go if they can’t afford to heat their homes.

“It’s just a huge thing,” Hannah tells Sky News.

“Not even just people on Universal Credit who are going to struggle – it is universal, everybody’s going to struggle. It’s just hideous really.”

She’s wiping down the tables, checking how the portable smart thermostat actually works and planning out how they can make it a practical useful space for people.

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