2023/2024 service
concluded on 31st March 2024,
Details on the 2024/2025 Yate Town Council Warm Welcome service will be released later in the year.
For more information on Warm Welcome spaces please visit: https://www.warmwelcome.uk/ or search for information and services | South Gloucestershire (southglos.gov.uk)
This initiative was designed to offer warm and welcoming places for people to drop-in and use throughout the colder, winter months.
Completely free of charge, the service aims to support those in the community who are adversely impacted by the cost-of-living increases, in particular, rising energy costs.
Warm Welcome has been made possible through generous donations and funding from the Town Council’s Yate Ageing Better Health and Wellbeing initiative and community partnerships with organisations such as The Oasis at Chipping Sodbury Baptist Church (CSBC), and Yate Library.
Community Driven
Yate Town Council Community Projects Team, have been working with the community to identify possible venues across Yate and the surrounding parishes, that could offer facilities and activities to Warm Welcome. If you are a community group or business, that has a space or activity you can offer to the public, free of charge or, if you can offer funding or resources such as refreshments, games, books, newspapers and magazines, please contact the Town Council.
Useful Links and Other Services
Renew wellbeing spaces (www.renewwellbeing.org.uk/our-centres) – places where it’s ok not to be ok.
- Community Welcome Spaces in South Gloucestershire https://beta.southglos.gov.uk/community-welcome-spaces – These warm spaces offer a friendly welcome and are free to use
- Welcoming Places Bristol (www.bristol.gov.uk/residents/people-and-communities/welcoming-spaces) – where people can meet up, socialise and access support related to the cost of living
- Public Living Room – Camerados (camerados.org/public-living-room) – Find a public living room near you
- Citizens Advice Bureau (www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/) – to make sure that you get all the help that you’re entitled to
- Cost of Living Support (www.gov.uk/cost-of-living) – support with income, childcare costs, bills, housing, travel costs and business costs
- Help for Households (www.helpforhouseholds.campaign.gov.uk) – If you claim certain benefits or tax credits, you may be eligible for an extra payment to help with the cost of living.
- The Samaritans (www.samaritans.org)
- MIND (www.mind.org.uk)
- Young Minds (www.youngminds.org.uk)