“Little things, like putting less water in the kettle. “You just adapt,” said Freeman, 69, who was using the center as a warm, quiet place to work on a poem. Like many, she has cut back in response to the cost-of-living crisis driven by the highest inflation since the 1980s. She lives in “a tiny house with no central heating” and relies on a coal fire for warmth. Wendy Freeman, an artist, writer and seventh-generation Stratfordian, heard about the RSC’s warm hub from a friend. Research by the opposition Labour Party counted almost 13,000 such hubs, funded by a mix of charities, community groups and the government and nestled in libraries, churches, community centers and even a tearoom at King Charles III's Highgrove country estate. Warm hubs have sprouted across Britain by the thousands this winter as soaring food and energy prices drive millions to turn down the thermostat or skimp on hot meals. It looks and feels like an arty café in the pictureque streets of Stratford-upon-Avon, but it’s a “warm hub” set up by the Royal Shakespeare Company drama troupe to welcome people struggling to heat their homes because of sky-high energy prices. Visitors are having meetings over coffee, checking emails, writing poetry, learning to sew. STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England (AP) - On a blustery late-winter day in Shakespeare’s birthplace, the foyer of the Other Place theater is a cozy refuge.
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