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What we do
We are an enabling charity - Even before the published reports in the British Medical Journal in 1998 following a 13 year study in America - We knew that people needed to have access to social contact for their mental and physical welfare.
Norwich Door to Door is a member led organisation. We want to join in with our communities and to make our own contribution to the society in which we live and our families work.
Where we work
Our day to day operating area is Greater Norwich that includes Norwich City and the Parishes of Thorpe, Sprowston, Hellesdon, Taverham, Costessey, Cringleford and Eaton and Trowse. At weekends we undertake group bookings subject to driver team availability and extend our service to meet the need of disabled group/organisations across Norfolk.
Who we work with
We work with people living in their own homes in Greater Norwich who as a result of sickness, disability or age cannot access the public transport services. We are a charity - our objective is to help people on low income, the people who would if they could use the public transport services, and would not be able to pay for private hire or taxi fares.
We engage with our members - we work together and know of the enormous difficulties involved in trying daily to achieve objectives and maintain a degree of independence. Some people can use their wheelchairs to get to the local bus stops, however even if they can get that far there is no guarantee that a) the bus floor will be of the lowering type and b) it is working c) the alloted wheelchair/push chair space is not already filled with a pushchair or parcels.
More opportunity
The Royal Association for Disabled People in November 2001 stated that the latest government statistics from an Omnibus Survey in 1998 found that 11.7million people in the UK at that time could not or found it difficult to access public transport. In 2003 a further government report stated that some disabled people were continuing to experience poverty and isolation. They had fewer opportunities for and faced greater barriers to social inclusion than non-disabled people and still faced discrimination on all levels.
Help us to help ourselves and others marginalised is Greater Norwich.
Please refer to: Mind The Gap – the Leonard Cheshire report which examines the impact an inaccessible transport system has on the social exclusion experienced by disabled people. Full of facts and figures including:
1) 20% of respondents found it difficult to get the healthcare they needed because of inaccessible transport.
2) 67% of respondents did not see their friends or family as often as they would like as they did not have access to transport.
3) 62% of respondents who were wheelchair users and 86% with visual impairment said that inaccessible transport restricted their choice of jobs.
It can be down loaded from their website.
