Wantage IAC Bid Success

At this afternoon's Cabinet meeting at the County Council, it was agreed to give the Wantage Independent Advice Centre their bid for £1,990 from the Big Society Fund.  The total bid was for £10,490, however, £8,500 was contributed from Wantage Day Centre as this money was going towards a project to provide transport to the two local day centres for vulnerable and older people in the community.

The costs are to help recruit and set up a system for managing volunteer drivers for daily transport to the day centres.  It was acknowledged that this type of Community Transport Scheme could be rolled out countywide to other advice centres as a good model.

Local residents are very supportive of our local community car scheme run by the Wantage IAC and I am pleased that I was able to speak in support of this important bid at the Cabinet meeting today.  Accessing our day centres is crucial to the health and wellbeing of our elderly and vulnerable people, so it is important that we give them all the help we can, especially during the current economic climate.