A big poster outside the Bob Jones Community Hub in Wolverhampton proclaims “I’m a warm space” and offers people free hot drinks, phone charging points and place to keep warm for as long as they like.
It is one of 38 warm banks, branded as Warm Spaces, opening across the city this week in preparation for a cold winter amid the cost of living crisis, in a local authority with the highest rate of fuel poverty in the country.
