{"id":1921,"date":"2022-12-16T11:37:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T11:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2025-03-24T12:52:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:52:40","slug":"warm-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/2022\/12\/16\/warm-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Open House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We will be opening our Coffee Lounge on <strong>Wednesdays from 10.30am until 1.30pm<\/strong> from September to June 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This continues as a follow-on from our Warm Space project which we began in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the Methodist &#8211; and other Churches around Colchester &#8211; joined the initiative to provide a Warm Space available to all during the coldest times of the year. We continue to do so assisted by volunteers from among our friends from St Botolph&#8217;s church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our churches are open at varying times, and for differing lengths of time. Details of opening times for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/colchestermethodists.org.uk\/2022\/12\/15\/warm-spaces\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/colchestermethodists.org.uk\/2022\/12\/15\/warm-spaces\/\" target=\"_blank\">other Methodist Churches can be found on the Circuit website here<\/a>, or on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.warmwelcome.uk\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.warmwelcome.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Warm Welcome website here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will be offering a warm space to be, and a free hot drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes we will be offering activities (games \/ craft \/ jig-saws), somewhere to charge a mobile device, a quiet place to work, or even a light lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We look forward to giving you a Warm Welcome!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/coffee-1974841_1920-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1922\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/coffee-1974841_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/coffee-1974841_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/coffee-1974841_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/coffee-1974841_1920-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/coffee-1974841_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will be opening our Coffee Lounge on Wednesdays from 10.30am until 1.30pm from September to June 2025. This continues as a follow-on from our Warm Space project which we&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[86],"tags":[102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}