Westway CT

Westway CT

At a glance

Causes

  • Local / community
  • Voluntary sector support

Other details

Geographical remit: 
Local

Objectives

Westway CT is a community transport organisation that seeks to combat isolation and loneliness and promote/enable inclusion of disadvantaged individuals and/or groups in society. Westway CT enables people and groups to access opportunities that they could not access via their own mean.

 

Westway CT’s core objectives are:

  •  To combat loneliness and isolation that disadvantaged individuals can experience.
  • Enable individuals to get to medical appointments and/or community-based activities.
  • Enable disadvantaged individuals to get to shops so they can buy their own food and thus access a healthy and varied diet.
  • Enable other charity groups to carry out important transport work to help their own users.
  • Enable other charity groups to take their members out for activities at an affordable rate.

Activities

There are several activities that Westway CT conducts to achieve its objectives.

Westway CT provides a free shopper bus service to members to allow individuals go to the supermarkets and other shops so they can buy their own food and necessities. This service allows users to not only maintain their independence but also make new friends with other passengers on the same bus.

Westway CT also runs a volunteer car service. This service allows individuals or small groups to book a car trip to take them to a destination they need or want to visit. This service often takes passengers to medical appointments and/ or community-based activities, though not exclusively.

Westway CT also puts on summer excursions to enable its members to go out for day trips to a variety of destinations.  This helps members to socialise with each other and thus combat any potential loneliness and isolation they may experience.

Westway CT provides affordable goods transport to other charitable organisations such as food banks. This allows food banks to move/ or receive deliveries of stock or deliver food parcels to their users.

Westway CT, also provides minibus transport for groups to hire for an affordable rate so they can take their members to events, trips out or conduct regular journeys.  

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