Community Helping Hand Is a Lifeline for Oap Regulars

Gloucestershire Echo, The › January 03, 2010

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FOR former fighter pilot Peter Jackson, Cheltenham Community Transport is a lifeline. The 87-year-old, who lives in Leckhampton, uses the service to attend a regular lunch club and to visit his wife, Lilian, who is being cared for at a residential home in the town following a stroke.

Thanks to a team of volunteers who use their own transport to pick him up and take him to various locations across the town, he is managing to maintain a normal life.

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Community Helping Hand Is a Lifeline for Oap Regulars

"I wouldn't go out if it was wasn't for Community Transport - they take me to the supermark...

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