The Wellow Community Minibus has recently celebrated its 7,000th passenger journey and recorded a new high in passenger numbers during the month of April.
The minibus, which has been running successfully since September 2010, is a community service with financial assistance from B&NES and Wellow Parish Council and generous sponsorship by local businesses. Locally based company Bluebird Care that provides care to elderly, disabled and vulnerable people in their own homes has just announced that it will be sponsoring the bus for a second year.
Other businesses that generously support the bus include Crisp Cowley, the Circle Hospital, and Allen Ford.
The service, staffed mainly by volunteers, runs into Bath and the Odd Down Park & Ride several times a day and includes daily runs to and from local schools St Gregory’s Catholic College and Beechen Cliff School for children living in the village.
Committee Chairman Rosemary Todd comments: “We are thrilled to have reached this milestone. It’s taken a lot of hard work to get this project off the ground, but now we have been up and running for 18 months we are providing a great – and often essential – service for people in our community. And we are delighted that Bluebird Care has agreed to continue supporting our project.”
Tim Rowland-Jones, the Managing Director of Bluebird Care, added: “I am really pleased to continue supporting such a worthwhile cause as the Wellow bus. Far too often, rural communities can be left isolated and without access to services. Here at Bluebird Care, our message is clear and we want to tell everyone that we can provide care to people in their own homes no matter where they live in Bath & North East Somerset.
We provide care staff to older and disabled people in their own homes, regardless of how rural the communities they live in are.”
