Please watch this film! It showcases how brilliant and necessary community transport is! It’s Everything to so many people. It's easy to take transport for granted when you have it, but we shouldn’t, because when we don’t have access it can be literally quietly...
It’s official, access to transport is essential to beating loneliness. A new study by the Social Market Foundation showed that there is a very real link between transport or the lack thereof, and loneliness. The think tank used data from the Department of Transport...
The Notting Hill Carnival is coming and it's a big deal where we operate, across Kensington & Chelsea, and Westminster. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea along with the Notting Hill Carnival organisers are running carnival drop in sessions over the next...
Join us on Friday 11th July at our depot with Royal Borough of Kensington, and Chelsea and Westminster City Council to be part of the team shaping community transport across the boroughs! This is a chance to have your say on how this vital service works for older...
Can you drive? Are you looking to change lanes? Do you want a job that doesn’t feel like a job? Well, we have just the ticket. Drive for us. We’re recruiting drivers for our community transport service, helping to fight loneliness and isolation as we make transport...
How you feeling? 'I’m fine' - must be our favourite response to 'How are you?' But are you, really? It’s National Loneliness Week, hosted by The Marmalade Trust, so we can’t all be fine, given that a quiet epidemic is blanketing the nation, and...
It’s National Volunteer Week – a time to celebrate the incredible impact of volunteers across the country. But with 15 million people* giving their time to over 166,000 organisations, you could argue that every week is volunteer week. Volunteers are the backbone of so...
This week is National Dementia Action Awareness Week 19 -25 May 2025, led by Alzheimer's Society. By 2040 it’s expected that 1.4 million people will be living with dementia. This condition has a huge impact on individuals and families, it’s confusing and challenging...
"Using your services keeps me out of the doctor’s surgery” says Jessie. “I was married for 60 years and, having lost my husband, I feel loneliness and isolation even more if I have nothing to do. Without Westway we’d be trapped indoors.” This week is...
When did you last go to a museum? How did it make you feel? GPs in a Swiss town are prescribing museum visits as part of a social prescribing plan to help find pathways to healing for those struggling with mental health. The idea came about from the World Health...
One of the longest studies carried out by Harvard University reveals that the #1 predictor of long-term happiness isn’t wealth, diet, or genetics. It’s community. Close relationships and social connections become increasingly important for our well being as we age. ...
As the weather brightens we’re sharing some photos of a recent passenger trip to a lovely pub. Our Shopper Bus passengers travelled to the Toby Carvery in Denham recently for a great meal with good company. This is just one of the many trips we organise weekly to nice...