Bristol Water and Wessex Water have provided funding for North Somerset Council's Public Living Rooms initiative. This is to help provide a safe warm space for those most in need this winter.

With the cost of energy soaring, we recognise that many of our customers will be choosing between heating and eating – or even both.

Public Living Rooms will be set up in churches and community centres and will be warm spaces for people to attend for company, advice, food and drinks. We have provided flyers promoting our affordability schemes and our Priority Services register to be distributed to warm places.

We will feature in the council’s ‘worrying about money’ feature online and in leaflets, and we are reaching out to other councils in our area to work more closely with them.