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Minibus Appeal launched

On July 6 2002, Age Concern Feltham Hanworth and Bedfont held a Garden Party to celebrate their 20th Birthday. During the Garden Party our Chief Officer launched an Appeal to raise £94,000 for two new minibuses.

Both the minibuses in use at that time were past their prime, each having in excess of 100,000 miles on the clock. The minibuses are used daily to collect people from their homes and take them to the day centre and to the outside social groups organised by Age Concern Feltham Hanworth and Bedfont. Other social activities have been taken in the minibuses such as regular outings in the summer.   Housebound people have also been taken on weekly shopping trips and Christmas Shopping trips in the minibuses.

Without these buses many less mobile and disabled older people would be housebound. The great appreciation of this service is most deeply felt when a bus is off the road for repairs, the outside social groups who suffer and have to be cancelled or hold their group with greatly diminished numbers. Every effort is made to ensure that people who attend the day centre do so as normal, using one bus to collect everyone on all the rounds.

 

The oldest of the two minibuses had to be taken off the road and was replaced in mid 2007 with a second hand vehicle, with the remaining bus being replaced with another second hand vehicle in March 2008.   The bus fund paid for both these vehicles and for some minor adaptations to make the second vehicle more user friendly.

Anyone who is interested in finding out more about the appeal or arranging a fundraising event to help, please telephone (020) 8751 5829.

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