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THE places in York where people can go to stay warm this winter have been named.
A total of 30 buildings have received £41,920 in City of York Council funding to offer the spaces which offer people somewhere warm to go with food, drink, activities, company and support.
A council report on the funding stated warm places aimed to reduce social isolation, help people with the cost of living and improve their health and well-being.
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The Good Place, Warm Place locations in York this winter:
- St Nicholas' Church, Dunnington: supporting community café which opens twice a week, heating costs and new tea pots – £893.
- St Clement's Church, Micklegate: funding for community café opening four hours a week for five months during winter – £1,800.
- Door 84 Youth and Community Centre, Guildhall: funding for kitchen equipment and pantry supplies for weekly community café – £2,000.
- St Wulstan's Church, Fossway: supporting food costs for twice-weekly pay-as-you-feel café – £250.
- Haxby and Wigginton Youth & Community Centre: funding food, refreshment and venue running costs and supporting volunteers at weekly Oaken Grove Community Centre café – £1,500.
- Foxwood Community Centre, Westfield: funding for heating and utility costs for pay-as-you-feel café – £750.
- St Andrew's and All Saints Church, Huntington and New Earswick: support for heating and refreshment costs for Cake and Company weekly warm space for older people – £1,500.
- St Hilda's Church, Tang Hall: funding to buy new chairs and support utility costs at weekly warm space – £992.
- The Gateway Centre, Acomb: support for utility costs and kitchen equipment for Atrium café offering free food and drinks 12 hours a week – £2,500.
- York Travellers Trust, Clifton: funding for utility costs, equipment, food and emergency supplies for the Public Living Room running three days a week – £1,927.
- Choose2Youth, Hull Road Park: funding for hot meals and drinks at pay-as-you-feel warm space running on Thursdays from 11am to 2pm – £1,920.
- The Place, Sanderson House, Westfield: support for food costs for the Chapelfields Community Association's two drop-ins – £2,000.
- St Michael's York Trust, Spurriergate Centre: funding for utility costs at 8-hour-a-week pay-as-you-feel café – £2,500.
- Over The Rainbow York, Guildhall: support for heating and food costs for warm space catering to LGBTQ+ people – £660.
- Lived Insights Community Research Café, St Deny's Hall Walmgate: funding to support running costs for twice-weekly warm space – £1,800.
- St Sampson's Centre, Church Street: support for heating and running costs for six-day-a-week pay-as-you-feel café – £2,500.
- St James the Deacon, Dringhouses and Woodthorpe: funding to cover heating, food and refreshment costs for three-day-a-week warm space – £1,700.
- St Thomas' Church, Osbaldwick: support for weekly community coffee morning – £700.
- Planet Food, Southland Methodist Church: funding for catering equipment and running costs for weekly warm space and food offer – £2,590.
- Clifton Parish Church St Philip and St James: support for soup lunches at weekly afternoon warm space – £250.
- York In Recovery, Wellington Row: funding for six-day-a-week Recovery Café – £1,500.
- Fulford Social Hall: support for heating, lighting and refreshment costs – £1,488.
- City of York Hockey Club, Elmpark area: funding for running costs of weekly warm space – £800.
- Living Word Church, Heworth: funding for food, refreshment and running costs for warm space – £1,850.
- Heworth Christ Church: support for refreshments at pay-as-you-feel warm space on Monday mornings – £500.
- St Thomas', The Groves: funding for refreshment, utilities and equipment costs for weekly community café – £1,500.
- The Hut, near Clarence Gardens: support for community café running on Thursdays from 10.30am to 2pm – £1,200.
- Lidgett Grove Methodist Church, Acomb: funding for volunteer-run community café – £1,200.
- St Oswald's, Fulford: support to purchase food pantry supplies and cover utility costs for community café – £650.
- Clementhorpe Community Association, Micklegate: support for weekly café – £500.