I'm on the left side of the Atlantic, so don't have specific advice about places to fly, or EASA/UK currency regulations, however:
I haven't flown since last May so I imagine I probably do need the hours training, I can prepare myself a bit my using flight simulator at home.
From a flying safety point of view, an hour is not enough for recurrency training after more than six months not flying for any pilot. The total of the skills which must be reviewed and demonstrated to a safe standard would take more than an hour, even of the demonstration was to standard the first time around, which is optimistic.
The realities of the cost to fly are unfortunate, but being a safe pilot is beyond the economics of the exercise, it's having sufficient recent experience that your skills are where they need to be to be safe.
A comparable situation is for those of us who fly floats in Canada, the water is too cold or too hard six months of the year to float fly. So, in the spring, there will be, by necessity, a six month recurrency flight. That is rarely done to completion in less than an hour, and that would be for very experienced pilots, whose "muscle memory" will mostly last over a cold winter.
You don't want to find yourself in a situation where, airborne alone, you'd "pay anything" to have received more training or practice, because somehow, it's all going bad fast now....