Warm hubs have sprouted across Britain by the thousands this winter as soaring food and energy prices drive millions to turn down the thermostat or skimp on hot meals.
The UK’s annual inflation rate was just above 10 per cent in January, with food prices up almost 17 per cent over the year. Some 62 per cent of adults are using less natural gas or electricity to save money, according to the Office for National Statistics. A quarter of households regularly run out of money for essentials, pollster Survation found.
Anne Bolger, a retired math teacher, happened across the warm hub during a walk one day and has come back every week since. She drops in to check emails, prep for math tutoring or do a jigsaw puzzle.The hub runs one afternoon a week in the smallest of the RSC’s three theatres. On Tuesday, the space held a mixture of theatre staff, actors on the way to rehearsals and visitors looking to get warm.
That’s just what organizers want to hear. They say warm hubs exist to ease loneliness as well as energy poverty. Stratford, about 100 miles north-west of London, is a prosperous town that makes a good living from William Shakespeare, its most famous son. Even on a wintry weekday, tourists traipse though streets of half-timbered Tudor buildings to see the house where the Bard was born, visit the schoolroom where he studied and stand over his grave in the medieval Holy Trinity Church.
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