Burnham Market Area Community Car Scheme

Report on the first year of operation  - 1st June 2004 to 31st May 2005

from

Daphne Potter - Scheme Co-ordinator

We have just completed our first year and are now working between Wells-next-the-Sea to the east and Holme village to the west.  Inland we cover Stanhoe to the Creakes taking in the Burnhams and Holkham and we also take passengers to the Docking and Hunstanton surgeries.

Working closely with the Burnham Market Surgery where most of our journeys originate, we regularly take passengers to hospitals in Cambridge, Norwich, King's Lynn, Cromer, Kelling and the Physiotherapy department in Wells Cottage Hospital.  We take people to Residential Care Homes and to Tapping House in Snettisham as well as to dentists, opticians and chiropodists.

With our increased number of journeys we are looking for more drivers.  If you can help please contact Daphne Potter, Co-ordinator on 01485 210342.  You will receive 40p per mile.

The Scheme will be re-locating to a permanent office in Holme Village Hall.  The Holme Parish Council and the Village Hall Management Committee have upgraded what was an upstairs storeroom into a fully insulated and decorated room as their very generous contribution to the Scheme.  We hope to move at the end of the Summer.

Initially we were funded by the Countryside Agency and have received donations from the individual parishes we work in, the Burnham Market Surgery, the Primary Care Trust, the Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk, local benefactors and fund raising events.  Unfortunately, the funding from the Countryside Agency stopped in March and our major project is to find funding to enable the scheme to continue.