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    Caring For Swale This Christmas

    • Writer: icarsoffice
      icarsoffice
    • Nov 8, 2023
    • 1 min read


    As the cost-of-living crisis continues to heap pressure on households throughout Swale, Swale Foodbank and Sheerness Salvation Army have joined together to launch a brand-new community project to ensure that families and isolated or vulnerable adults are cared for this Christmas.

    Both charities have operated smaller, similar schemes in past years, but both realised that the challenge is greater in 2023 than they have ever seen before and by uniting they would be able to help more people than they could alone.

    The Gift of Christmas will see the two charities working with a host of other businesses and organisations in the local area, making this a true community wide effort. The public are being asked for donations of finances, food hampers, and brand-new unwrapped gifts, which will then be distributed to those needing support this year.

    iCars will be collecting gifts and food items throughout November right through to Christmas, if you would like to donate a brand new unwrapped gift, please hand it to your driver, if you would like to donate food items for the Swale food bank, there will be collection basin the boot of our vehicles, if you are going shopping and getting a cab with us, grab 1 extra item and donate it please to help those less fortunate than a lot of us.

    You can find more details on Swale Gift For Christmas at www.giftofchristmas.co.uk.







     
     
     

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    For many people who use a wheelchair, a simple task such as going shopping or to a Dr's appointment is a nightmare, bus services on the island are patchy at best, and the only other option would be to book a taxi and ensure there was enough space in the boot of the car for the wheel chair, and ask for assistance to get out of the chair and into the vehicle, and that’s assuming they can transfer, these sort of obstacles can take away peoples independence, if your wheelchair bound, then the anchors are well laid into the ground preventing users from getting out and enjoying the area!

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    From day one that has been something Neil and Jan have wanted to change and something they have acted on, as a result iCars have several vehicles available to customers, and since they have come into use we have a legion of delighted customers, we have eliminated the indignity of transferring a customer from their chair into a car, now the car pulls up the ramp slides out and in you go, travelling in your own chair, and there is no extra charge for this service!

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