{"id":1135,"date":"2025-11-26T10:58:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:39:23","slug":"hut-8-closure-for-refurbishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2025\/11\/26\/hut-8-closure-for-refurbishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Hut 8 &#8211; closure for refurbishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to give you advance notice that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/catering\/canterbury\/hut-8\"><strong>Hut 8<\/strong><\/a> will be <strong>closed from Monday 1 &#8211; Monday 15 December 2025<\/strong> (inclusive) for a refurbishment of the space.<\/p>\n<p>This upgrade will deliver a refreshed and more student-friendly environment, with an updated modernised design, including an improved layout for socialising, study breaks, and group meetups.<\/p>\n<p>Hut 8 will <strong>reopen Tuesday 16 December &#8211; Friday 19 December,<\/strong> before closing for the winter break. It will <strong>officially reopen on Friday 2 January 2026 with its brand-new look.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alongside the newly refurbished space, we are excited to introduce the Tuk Tuk Coffee Cart, serving a range of pastries and grab-and-go favourites. The Tuk Tuk will also proudly serve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialimpactcoffee.org\/\">Social Impact Coffee<\/a>, a speciality roastery with a big idea: that every cup of coffee shouldn\u2019t just taste good but should do good. 65% of their profits go directly into local community causes <em>(more information on this coming soon).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whether you\u2019re popping by for breakfast before a lecture, grabbing lunch with friends or chilling in the evening with a pizza while gaming, the refreshed Hut 8 will have something for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Take a sneak peek of planned refurbishment works \u2013 and we look forward to you all visiting when it\u2019s completed and re-opened on Tuesday 16 December.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, keep an eye out on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/catering\/time2eat\">Time2Eat catering app<\/a> for offers, opening times, online ordering and loyalty offers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1139\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/files\/2025\/11\/Hut8-refurb-2.jpg\" alt=\"Hut 8 mock up visual of refurbished space with students using the new digital ordering system\" width=\"834\" height=\"466\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to give you advance notice that Hut 8 will be closed from Monday 1 &#8211; Monday 15 December 2025 (inclusive) for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2025\/11\/26\/hut-8-closure-for-refurbishment\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40360,"featured_media":1138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312383,312220],"tags":[40065],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}