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Hands Across Cranfield
www.handsacrosscranfield.uk *
Do you need help with:
- Occasional lifts to take people to appointments locally, such as the surgery or to an optician
- Shopping, gardening & dog walking
- Simple DIY jobs like putting up curtains and changing a light bulb or fuse
- Form filling & Letter writing
- or just someone to call for a chat?
*use this address to find us easily
More details
This is one of many
‘Good Neighbour’ Schemes in Mid-Beds
set-up and run by local residents with the support of Beds Rural Communities
Charity
We will also consider other requests, such as you make to a neighbour, where alternative transport is not available. Each response to a request is at the discretion of our volunteers. We offer support to people in the community that would otherwise not receive help. So if you need help and don’t know where to get it please call. Volunteers do not undertake any services best left to qualified trades people.
Our Services
- Transport to appointments with your Doctor, Dentist, Hospital, Optician etc. or if you have problems with using public transport, and occasional lifts to day centres if your regular transport is not available.
- Collection of pensions, prescriptions, or medication.
- Shopping or small errands.
- Occasional dog-walking if you happen to be ill.
- We can help with writing important letters or complicated forms.
- Simple DIY tasks such as changing bulbs or fuses, hanging curtains , etc.
- Please not we cannot undertake services best provided by qualified local trades people).
- Visiting you or befriending. For example when your loved one is temporarily in hospital or away from home.
Trip Costs
We are a non-profit organisation and our time is given free of charge. We do ask that you reimburse your volunteer any petrol costs and parking fees if we do not have a parking permit for the facility. Typical petrol costs are 45p/mile.
The list shows the journey costs from Cranfield to common destinations.
For trips starting at the university,
please add £2.50 to the amounts below
To | Price |
Ampthill | £9.00 |
Bedford Hospital North Wing | £11.00 |
Bedford Hospital South Wing | £8.00 |
Brooklands Surgery | £4.00 |
Cranfield Surgery/Shops/Dentist | £2.00 |
Cranfield University | £2.50 |
Flitwick | £9.00 |
Jubilee Centre Bedford | £11.00 |
Kempston | £7.00 |
Marston Surgery | £4.00 |
Milton Keynes Hospital | £8.00 |
Moggerhanger | £12.00 |
Newport Pagnell | £7.00 |
Shortstown | £10.00 |
Steppingly | £9.00 |
Willen Hospice | £7.00 |
Wootton Health Centre | £5.00 |
The rate is calculated at 45p a mile
Contact Details
For all requests for help please phone:
07789 701 252
Between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. the call will be answered by a volunteer who will match your request with an available ‘Helping Hand’. If you hear a recorded message, your call will be returned within 2 hours.
Please give as much notice as possible if a lift is required.
See the Trip Costs section.
In an emergency, please dial 999 for the emergency services.
Click a link to send an email to one of our team
Terry Stevens: 07904 437201
Diary 2024
Every Monday Cranfield Village Hall | 11:15am to 12:15 pm | Chair-based Exercise Class | (click to email) |
21st May | 12:30 | Meal: Hungry Horse | Contact Terry to Book |
4th June | 10:00 | Talk: Chocolate, all you wanted to know. | Geoff Talbot |
18th June | 12:30 | Meal: Hungry Horse | Contact Terry to Book |
Events
Regular Events
- Every 1st Tuesday of the month we have talks from interesting local speakers at the Baptist Church at 10 a.m.
- We have chair-based exercise sessions every Monday morning in the Village Hall.
Outings
During the summer months we
- Make excursions to various places of interest such as Garden Centres,Museums, etc.
- On the 3rd Tuesday of the month we go out to lunch at a local pub restaurant. Call Terry on 0790 443 7201 to book your place.
The details of all events are advertised in local businesses including the Co-op, the Cross Keys, the News Agents and the Chemist. Thanks to the Proprietors and Staff!
VOLUNTEERS
or telephone 07789 701 252
COULD YOU HELP US? WE ALWAYS NEED MORE VOLUNTEERS
If you would like to help this worthwhile charity, even if you only have a few hours a week we would be delighted to hear from you.
If you are less than 80 years old, and have transport, would you be willing to take people to and from medical appointments? (Mostly local but all within a 15 mile radius).
Would you be willing to help with shopping, errands or befriending those who would welcome a chat now and again?
Or simply help at home with hanging curtains, changing light bulbs, fuses etc? (excludes jobs best done by qualified local trades people)
Can you take a turn in answering our phone and book a volunteer to help out?
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