fit and ready? how community transport helps address health and wellbeing needs
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Fit and Ready? How Community Transport helps
address health and wellbeing needs.
Nicky StevensonNorfolk Community Transport Association
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What is Community Transport?
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Community Transport Operators help people in Norfolk to get to places they need to go when they don’t have access to other means of transport.
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Community Transport – the picture in Norfolk
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There are 60+ organisations providing community transport in Norfolk, offering a range of services:
• Community car schemes • Minibuses • Moped hire – wheels to work• Short term car hire• Community rail network
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Community Transport in numbers
• Over 60 organisations• Over 150 paid staff and 650
volunteers • Over 135,000 journeys a year • Over 90 vehicles • 200 bikes • 200 car club members
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How Community Transport operates• Independent
organisations set up by people in their local communities
• Services delivered by a mixture of paid staff and volunteers.
• Funded by fares charged to passengers, public service contracts (such as school transport) and grants
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How CTOs make a difference
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• Extra help to get from the front door to the passenger seat because of age or a disability
• Access to essential services such as GP and hospital appointments
• Getting to work, school and college• People in rural areas can maintain links with
their communities• An affordable option to private hire
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Community transport – a healthy option?
• District and Parish Councils subsidising health journeys
• Local arrangements with GP practices
• Overcoming isolation• Keeping retired people
active in the community• Helping reduce missed
appointments
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Access to health services doesn’t start from when you get to the doctor – it starts when you leave your front door