The Community Transport Scheme
Serve provides a polite, very good service. We don't know what we‘d do without you! to join Serve‘s Community Transport Scheme, or to find out more information, please visit either our Rushden or Raunds Offices, or contact:
What does it do?
Serve‘s Community Transport Scheme helps elderly and disabled people to access medically related appointments, including their doctor, the hospital, dentist and chiropodist. We will also take people to visit relatives in hospital or local nursing homes.
Who are the drivers and who pays them?
The Scheme relies on Volunteer Drivers who have been CRB checked. The Drivers collect the clients from their homes and take them to their appointment, bringing them back afterwards. The Volunteer Drivers are reimbursed by the clients for their expenses at a previously agreed rate.
What area does the Scheme operate in?
The Scheme covers people who live in Rushden, Higham Ferrers, Raunds, Irthlingborough and surrounding villages,
and we are able to cover hospital appointments in places such as Leicester, Oxford and Stoke Mandeville, as well as the usual local medical facilities.
I am confined to a wheelchair, can you take me?
We have wheelchair accessible vehicles, driven by our own drivers, but these are mainly used for transport to and from our Day Centres. However, we are able to make them available for medical appointments from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and after 4 p.m. on week days. In addition to the normal expenses, there is a surcharge of £10 per journey for the wheelchair accessible vehicles, which should be booked 5 days in advance of the appointment
To join Serve‘s Community Transport Scheme, or to find out more information, please visit either our Rushden or Raunds Offices, or contact:
Contacts:
Coral Sawford - Community Transport Controller, Amy Jeffree, Transport Assistant
Telephone number:
01933 315555
E-mail:
transport@serve.org.uk
Website:
www.serve.org.uk