It is not just for warmth that some are attending Warm Hubs across East Cambridgeshire.
While the starting point for these facilities may have been to provide a warm space for people this winter as energy costs increase, it has become more than that.
Katie Riley visited the Haddenham and Wilburton Warm Hub, with her two sons Dylan, aged three and six-month-old Oscar, on December 9.
The cost of heating was not the main reason for Katie coming along to the Warm Hub, she said, but the social side and a free space for her children to play.
“It is just a lovely place to come; it is a nice big space, nice to get out the house and away from the TV,” she said.
“We can get in the habit of putting it on first thing and it is tricky to turn off, whereas this is somewhere to go.”
Katie had already attended the Haddenham & Wilburton Warm Hub, which welcomes around 100 visitors a week.
She is now trying to find another place in the area that her and her family can do, and may well have found the right solution.
Katie added: “We are trying to use the car bit less, so [it’s about] having somewhere in the village we can walk to and do not have to spend a lot of money.”
Sandra Scott and Patricia Cox both met at the Hub, on Chewells Lane, to talk and do some knitting.
And while her husband is doing other activities, Sandra uses her spare time to meet others.
“On a Friday morning, we come out to knit and have a chat,” she said.
“My husband is at home so will have the heating on; we are never cold at home.”
Patricia is grateful for the Hub, and said: “It is a fantastic amenity, especially this time of year and we should use it, or we could lose it.”
One other visitor to the Hub, who did not want to be named, said she enjoyed coming to the warm bank to meet other people.
She said: “When we come, sometimes it is quite busy,” they said.
“It is nice to chat to people, just to see other people.”
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