Lancaster Royal Grammar School and city hotels offer free beds for NHS and other key workers
Hotels and the grammar school in Lancaster are offering beds for hospital key workers to reduce the risk of them infecting their families with coronavirus.
LRGS, in East Road, said it has a number of single en-suite rooms with shared living accommodation available.
The Borough, in Dalton Square, and Quite Simply French, in St George's Quay, have also offered up rooms free of charge for essential workers in the city.
An LRGS spokeswoman said: "We are offering boarding accommodation to help NHS workers, or any other essential key workers who are on the front line.
"We have a number of single en-suite rooms with shared living accommodation.
"So far we have helped to accommodate an NHS worker who is unable to return home as their family is in isolation.
"We hope to help and support as many as we can for as long as we are able."
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Hannah Horner, from The Borough, said: "Today we handed over our rooms free of charge to our hardworking NHS staff so that they don’t have to go home and put their families at risk.
"Thanks everyone in our NHS for everything you are doing for us all. Stay safe."
Quite Simply French said: "We have offered our bedrooms to the NHS should they come to need extra accommodation for the increase in staff. Free of charge of course."
Other accommodation providers are also understood to be offering free beds for key workers.
Aaron Cummins, Chief Executive, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, said: "We have been inundated with really kind and generous offers from local schools and childcare providers, local firms and individuals - and all our colleagues are incredibly grateful for this kindness and consideration at what is such a difficult time for everyone.
Thank you so much."