The future of a Shropshire day care centre is in jeopardy after a service that transports its elderly users was forced to close. The Bradbury Day Centre in Whitchurch provides social activity and a hot meal for elderly people.
But volunteers who run the service fear they will have no way of taking clients to the centre when North Shropshire Community Transport stops operating.
John Dodson, vice chairman of the Whitchurch and Wem Senior Citizens Forum, whose members use the centre said since the forum took over the Sunday service four years ago, they have hired a bus from NSCT to take more than a dozen people to the centre each week. The forum also hires the bus every month to take members to forum meetings.
He said if NSCT stops operating, there may be no way of getting the members to the centre each week, leaving them to fall to isolation and depression.
“One of the major problems is the fact that 80 per cent of elderly people end up depressed because they get isolated, and depression leads to other problems, which is where we are trying to help.
“Now we have been left not knowing how we will get our clients there, the people who go every week will fall to isolation because they will have no choice, and they will also possibly not have a hot meal because Meals on Wheels does not run on a Sunday.
For those that come to our monthly meetings, they will go into isolation too and they will miss out on coming to have social activity, and it’s not good,” he said.
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