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Nov 2023
Free warm spaces offered in Harrogate and Knaresborough
Temperatures have plummeted this week across the Harrogate district as winter begins to bite.
The cold weather, which has in some areas dropped to -3 degrees, has left many worried about how to keep warm.
Netmakers, a movement of churches formerly known as Harrogate Hub, has provided a list of churches and community organisations offering support during the cold weather.
The list includes organisations in Harrogate, Knaresborough and Starbeck offering space Monday to Friday.
You can find the list below.
Resurrected Bites and Harrogate District Food Bank are also offering space amid the freezing temperatures.
If you know of any others in these places or in Boroughbridge, Pateley Bridge and Masham let us know and we will add them. Email contact@thestrayferret.co.uk.
Further information on warm spaces can also be found on the Harrogate and District Community Action website here.
Meanwhile, the Prince of Wales pub in Starbeck has also invited people to use the pub as a free place of warmth this winter.
Landlady Alison Griffiths told the Stray Ferret previously that “inflation has caused everything to go up – I just hope to save some people money”.
People don’t have to declare they’re using the service, she added, but instead can just take a seat, chat and enjoy themselves for as long as they like.
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