Gloucester community centre providing ‘warm spaces’ during winter
Phoenix Community Centre operates the warm spaces twice a week.
Pheonix Community Centre is providing ‘Warm Spaces’ for people twice a week until the end of March.
The initiative provides a safe space for people during the colder months who may be struggling to afford heating and hot meals.
As well as providing hot meals twice a day on a Monday and Friday the staff offer a range of support from debt advice to digital inclusion.
Roy Smith, a veteran who attended the centre for support now volunteers spoke about his first time visiting the centre: ‘I felt like it was a safe place, nobody judged you’
He said: “It was a place where I’m not stuck indoors but then it also made me have a purpose”.
The community centre on Matson Lane runs a number of community project to help the vulnerable and encourages anybody to attend.
Amanda Bartlett who runs the warm spaces initiative said: “its not just about coming and having food its about at the moment providing services that people really need”
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