April 5 2017
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Community vehicle trust upgrades u by Kent Caddick
A community vehicle trust, whose aim it is to help the elderly living in rural areas of Selwyn to keep mobile, is upgrading part of its growing vehicle fleet. P4
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p Members of the Malvern Community Vehicle Trust with one of their cars and their new van. From left: Denise Reynolds, Kathy Stirrup, Ian Warren, John Henderson and Virginia Askin
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The Malvern Community Vehicle Trust was founded almost two years ago by local people who saw the lack of access to public transport as a hindrance to the elderly staying in their own homes and presenting difficulty for others without driver licences to get to hospital or doctor’s appointments. Current chair and founding member Virginia Askin said the trust was set
up in May 2015 to provide low cost transport for our rural community, which has a large geographical area. “This was to enable our elderly people and others, to stay in their own homes within their community for their own health and wellbeing. Transport issues often force people to move to the city, so if we can offer rides to the doctor in Darfield or hospital appointments in
Christchurch, or shopping trips and rides to other social events, then we help to hold our community together.” Mrs Askin said that in 2015 they attended a meeting in Timaru with Tony Henderson, who is a transport officer with Environment Canterbury, at which they met with members of an established vehicle trust in the region.
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