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CHRISTMAS 2013 NEWSLETTER
sedcat (South East Dorset
Community Accessible Transport)
3-5 Palmerston Road
Boscombe, Bournemouth BH1 4HN
Tel/fax : 01202 399700/534027
Visit our website:
www.sedcat.org.uk
Email us:
Contact us at:
sedcat : 01202 399700/534027
BAT Bus booking line : 01202/399771
Community Cars : 01202/309433
Boscombe Shopmobility : 01202/399700
Castlepoint Shopmobility:01202/598295
Registered Charity No. 1146311
sedcat are bringing Shopmobility to Bournemouth
Town Centre on Saturday 21st December 2013.
Shopmobility will be available all day from 10.00 am to 4 pm to
help everyone with their Christmas shopping needs. Scooters and
wheelchairs will be available at the Glen Fern Car Park (see map
below). Just look out for the BAT Bus which will be parked up in
the car park with scooters and wheelchairs for hire.
Mother Christmas Sue, and her elvish helpers, Nick and Alison, will
be on hand to offer help and assistance.
If you have difficulty in ge:ng around
Bournemouth Town Centre, now is
your chance to book a scooter or
wheelchair and experience the
Christmas spirit in Bournemouth and
do some last minute Christmas
shopping. Why not bring the grandchildren down and take them
ska<ng on the Ice Rink in the Gardens?, or you can browse around
the Christmas Market in the Square and
enjoy a fes<ve market offering authen<c
seasonal gi@s and tradi<onal yule<de
foods from German, Bri<sh and other
European cra@smen and merchants,
while a tradi<onal Victorian carousel will
provide fun for all ages. For more
informa<on about what is going on in
Bournemouth over the Christmas period you can look online at :
hCp://www.makeitbournemouth.co.uk/
The Glen Fern Car Park has two disabled parking bays and
reasonably priced parking charges. The Car Park is located in Glen
Fern Road and is convenient for Old Christchurch Road and Town
Centre shops, bars and restaurants; you can also easily access the
Gardens. Post code for Sat Nav use is BH1 2LZ.
To book your scooter or wheelchair, and avoid disappointment on
the day, please telephone :
01202 399700 or 01202 598295 or email: [email protected]
◊ The last BAT Bus shopping trip will operate on Monday 23rd December
◊ The BAT Bus service will resume on Monday 30th December (bookings will be taken on
Tuesday 24th December). Closed New Years Day. Bookings for the 2nd January will be
taken on Tuesday 31st December 2013
◊ The Community Cars booking line will be closed from Friday 20th December and will
re-open on Thursday 2nd January 2014
◊ Shopmobility will close at 1 pm Tuesday 24th December and will re-open Saturday
28th December. Closed New Years Day.
The Staff, Volunteers and Trustees at sedcat would like to take this opportunity
of wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Healthy and Happy New Year.
sedcat Christmas opening 9mes for
the BAT BUS, Community Cars and Shopmobility
A fond farewell to sedcat’s popular BAT Bus driver Bob Cox For many years, Bob Cox has been a favourite driver on the BAT Bus Saturday ou<ngs where he has always
been greatly appreciated for all of his kindness, pa<ence and good humour. Bob has decided that it is now
<me to spend more <me with his family and he has sadly decided to stop driving the BAT Bus on a Saturday.
The good news is that Bob will be back on the Xmas ou<ng driving one of the BAT Buses; just look out for one
of the Xmas Elves in the driver’s seat and you may find that it is Bob.
Bob is pictured above standing in front of the tree surrounded by his friends from the BAT Bus. The photo was
taken during a recent ou<ng to the Green Dragon in the New Forest earlier this year.
sedcat Community Cars
bookings up by 50% Throughout the year we have been busy recrui<ng
more Volunteer Community Car Drivers and now
have more drivers available who hopefully will be
living close to you. The booking office for Community
Cars is open Monday - Friday between the hours
1000 am to 4 pm. Please understand that currently
the booking team are taking more and more
bookings, if the telephone booking number
01202 309433 is engaged, please try again later.
“We both know that some�mes our booking line is
busy” said Alison and Judith “but we are doing our
very best to try and find drivers for our members. We
would like to say how grateful we are to all of our
team of dedicated and pa�ent drivers, without their
care and considerable input Community Cars would
not exist. Please be aware that our drivers are all
volunteers who give their �me freely and only ask
that their petrol expenses are paid”.
We now have …. In BH1 we have Lynda ... In BH2 we
have Miriam … in BH3 we have Peter (Wood) ... In
BH4 we have John (Alman), Jerry and Glenda … in
BH6 we have Denise, Nick and Val… in BH7 we have
John (Larkham), Terry and Paul… in BH8 we have
Susan, Dorothy, Diana, Ron and Delia …
in BH9 we have Carole, Bill and Peter (Robinson) …
in BH10 we have John (Sampson), Brian and Sylvia …
in BH11 we have Trevor and Mike … in BH12 we have
Ann ...in BH17 we have Elizabeth .. In BH22 we have
Peter (Rule) and in BH23 we have Ray.
The Home Library Service Book Club which is held
every month at Charminister Library. In the photo
above are Delia (sedcat volunteer driver), Margaret
and Jean (two of the book club members) and
Adrian Bramley (Home Library Service Manager)
Volunteers are s<ll needed to join
sedcat Calling all Volunteer Drivers ….. if you are reading
this and know of someone who
might be interested in joining the
sedcat team of Volunteer
drivers please ask them to call
either Alison or Judith on
01202 534027 or ask them to
email [email protected] .
Even a few hours a week can
make a big difference to people’s
lives and help them to con<nue
living in their homes with
independence and dignity.
Volunteers needed for Shopmobility……. If you are interested in voluntary work, why not
come down to Shopmobility and help out? Both
Boscombe and Castlepoint Shopmobility are ac<vely
recrui<ng volunteers to help in each of the units.
Lisa has recently joined the team of volunteers at
Castlepoint Shopmobility “I really enjoy my few hours
which I spend at Shopmobility welcoming the BAT
Bus members to the unit and making them cups of
tea and coffee and also helping Shopmobility
members.” said Lisa “ As I suffer with a slight
disability myself, I know how important it is for
people to be able to visit the shopping centre and use
a scooter or wheelchair to help them shop.”
sedcat (South East Dorset Community Accessible Transport) Charity No. 1146311 : Company No. 7800298
Registered Office: The Link, 3 - 5 Palmerston Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth. BH1 4HN
◊ Register at www.easyfundraising.org.uk
◊ When asked to choose your cause, select sedcat
◊ Then con<nue to your chosen retailer and start shopping
Easyfunding have over 2,700 top retailers and over
55,000 good causes.
The retailer will donate back a percentage of your shopping
bill to easyfundraising and this will then be given to sedcat.
This is an excellent way of suppor<ng your local charity and
benefi<ng your community. If you do not use online
shopping yourself, please spread the word to your friends,
families and neighbours.
Raise dona9ons for sedcat when
you shop online For those of you who shop online you can
now help sedcat by nomina<ng them as
the charity you wish to support.
Top 9ps for keeping warm this winter:
As energy bills rise, do you feel nervous about
turning up the thermostat at home? Well, take
heart, because there are lots of things you can do,
so read on and look a@er yourself.
Make yourself warmer
◊ Wear several thin layers, rather than
one thick layer. This is because they trap warm air
close to the body
◊ Draw your curtains, as soon as it gets dark to stop
the heat escaping and the draughts coming in
◊ Your body keeps warm by burning food you've
eaten, so make sure you have regular hot meals
that contain carbs, such as potatoes, pasta, bread
and rice.
◊ If you’re si:ng down, a shawl or blanket will
provide extra warmth. You should also try to keep
your feet up, because air is cooler at ground level.
◊ Wear warm clothes in bed. When it’s really
cold, wear thermal underwear and bed socks.
Some longer-term things you can do
to help ward off the winter chill
◊ Have your hea<ng system serviced and chimney
swept
◊ Check your water stopcock is working properly
◊ Get a keyhole cover – it should only cost a couple
of pounds and will help keep the draughts out in
cold weather.
◊ Fit thermal linings to your curtains if you can – this
will also help to keep the heat in
◊ Check out the benefits and grants available to help
with insula<on and energy efficiency, such as cavity
wall insula<on
◊ Stock up now on BaCeries for your smoke alarm
◊ Make sure that you have cold and flu medicines, as
well as any repeat prescrip<ons tucked away in
your kitchen cupboard
◊ Pasta and rice will last through the winter months,
so stock up now
And finally, Spring will be with us very soon
bringing back some warmer weather!
The Talbot Village Trust sedcat are delighted to announce that we have
been successful in being awarded a grant from
the Talbot Village Trust.
We are extremely grateful to the Talbot Village
Trust, as with the money raised last year from
the Sponsored Cycle Ride to Sardinia and various
fundraising events throughout the year, there
will now be sufficient funds to purchase a new
accessible vehicle. This vehicle will help our
members who are wheelchair bound and who
are currently unable to access local services
unless they pay for an expensive accessible taxi.
The car will also be used to supplement the BAT
Bus as the vehicle will have extra seats to
accommodate passengers as well as one
wheelchair user.
More informa9on about the new vehicle
will be announced in the next newsleCer.