Farmer Geoff Stevens has converted a formerly cold barn into a warming room for vulnerable people in Suffolk. He insulated it, got a log burner working, and added a kitchen and he's just opened it to the public in 2022 after plans to convert it to a café in 2020 were delayed. (links in comments)

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Farmyard Warm RoomAnna Louise Claydon finds out about a farm which has opened one of its barns as a warm room, to help people struggling to heat their homes during the cost of living crisis.Anna Louise Claydon visits a farm in Lowestoft which is opening up a barn as a warm room this winter.In 2020, director Geoff Stevens converted what used to be the coldest building on the farm into a fully insulated space with a kitchen and a log burner, in the hope of opening it as a cafe after the pandemic.Little did he know that he'd just created a community space for a problem he didn't yet know was coming: the cost of living crisis.She finds members of the team out with the animals and hears how working on the farm has transformed their lives and helped them to re-build after difficult experiences."

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