Accessibility Transport

Volunteer Centre

If you have limited mobility, can’t manage the buses or don’t have a bus service or a stop near you, but need to get to:

• day centre
• leisure venue
• the shops

then you could be eligible to use the  Newbury and Thatcham Handybus Service. 

The Newbury Volunteer Driver and Car Schemes provide transportation for people who find it difficult to use public transport to get to appointments of all kinds. 

Newbury Shopmobility provides a scheme which can provide you with the loan of a wheelchair or electric scooter to enable you to do your shopping or use other facilities in the town centre. 

Lambourn Volunteers

Whether it is a trip in the village to the Lambourn surgery or a longer drive to a hospital appointment in Swindon, Oxford or Newbury their friendly volunteers will pick you up from your house and take you to your appointment and drive you back afterwards. 

Newbury Cancer Care

They have 26 volunteer drivers who take patients to a variety of hospitals in the South of England (including London Hospitals) for treatment and appointments.

Downland Volunteers

They are set up to help people who are “elderly, sick or disabled, or