'We have the heating on anyway when someone is in the building, so it made sense to invite people in here to use it'
As the autumn sun spills through Levenshulme Old Library's lofty windows, an empty room is set aside to provide a comfort that is in short supply - warmth.
"At the moment, it's somewhere for parents to come after they have dropped their kids off from school so they can be warm for the whole school day, if they need it," he explained. "It's kind of structured around that". When we visited this morning, the sharpness that often accompanies late autumn and winter was yet to set in. But the cold is creeping, and the comfort of a warm radiator and hot drink will soon be a basic essential that many are unable to afford.
"There will be for a lot of people a stigma and a concern that they might be using a resource that isn't for them because they might think they're not poor enough or they're not struggling enough, or they might think they're able to just stretch to make ends meet.
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