From only 200 heating hubs when the Warm Welcome project kicked off three months ago and just 1,900 at the end of October , there are today 5,700 – 3,600 of which are already fully operational.
And these spaces, which offer not just the warmth of a heated room but the warm hand of friendship and support, now join community kitchens, food banks and all sorts of other banks – clothes, bedding, toiletries – as our last line of defence against winter destitution.
The speed at which an idea, first pushed last summer by Bishop of Durham Paul Butler and Good Faith Partnership’s David Barclay, has with the Daily Mirror’s help turned into a vibrant movement.
