{"id":30183,"date":"2023-01-09T17:09:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T16:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30183"},"modified":"2023-01-09T17:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T16:09:53","slug":"free-warm-welcoming-safe-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30183","title":{"rendered":"Free Warm Welcoming Safe Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/20230902.jpg\" alt=\"Warm Welcome Places\" \/><br \/>\nThe current cost of living crisis, particularly the increase in heating costs, has led to many people struggling to heat their homes. This is often compounded by loneliness and isolation.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why The Church in Abingdon has created five Warm Spaces across Abingdon where anyone can go to heat up, have a warm drink and enjoy a little company. It goes on until the end of March (2023).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/20230901.jpg\" alt=\"Warm Welcome Places\" \/><br \/>\nMondays<br \/>\n11 am &#8211; 4 pm, from 9 January 2023<br \/>\nSt Edmund&#8217;s Catholic Church, 1 Oxford Road &#8211; Parish Centre (01235 847804)<br \/>\nHot lunch, refreshments, conversation, games <\/p>\n<p>Tuesdays<br \/>\n1-4 pm, from 10 January 2023<br \/>\nPeachcroft Christian Centre, Lindsay Drive (01235 530227)<br \/>\nWarm drinks, comfy chairs, quiet workspace <\/p>\n<p>Wednesdays<br \/>\n12 -2 pm (The Sanctuary)<br \/>\nAbingdon Salvation Army, 12 West St Helen&#8217;s St (01235 523586)<br \/>\nTea, coffee, Wi-fi, conversation, games <\/p>\n<p>Thursdays<br \/>\n12.30-4.30 pm, from 5 January 2023<br \/>\nChrist Church, Northcourt Road, The Barn (01235 539172)<br \/>\nHot drinks\/soup, conversation <\/p>\n<p>Fridays<br \/>\n2-4.30 pm<br \/>\nAbingdon Baptist Church, 35 Ock Street (01235 530080)<br \/>\nTea. Coffee, squash, biscuits, conversation <\/p>\n<p>3957 warm welcome places in the UK are registered at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warmwelcome.uk\/\">https:\/\/www.warmwelcome.uk\/<\/a>, including Abingdon Library and One Planet Abingdon (under the museum).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current cost of living crisis, particularly the increase in heating costs, has led to many people struggling to heat their homes. This is often compounded by loneliness and isolation. That&#8217;s why The Church in Abingdon has created five Warm Spaces across Abingdon where anyone can go to heat up, have a warm drink and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}