100 Club
Thank you for your support which is a great help to ensure our scheme can continue to offer as many people as possible the services they require. Last year we raised £1622 for our funds. You may receive a written or telephone reminder when it is time for you to renew.
Congratulations to the winners of our recent draws – You can join the 100 Club at any time during the year, just send a cheque, payable to ODCTG for £12 to us at the address below or you can pay by BACS or Standing Order NatWest Okehampton Sort Code 54-21-14 Account No. 22127879 ODCTG
July August
1st Diana Butler, Petrockstowe Gordon Smart, Okehampton
2nd Alison Hutton, South Tawton Sylvia Marsh, Okehampton
3rd Patricia Squire, Okehampton Jon Boog, North Tawton
September
1st Peter Shalders, Monkokehampton
2nd Irvine Fulford, Hatherleigh
3rd Danny & Rita Ware, Okehampton
Trips
We know that you have been enjoying the trips now that we are able to travel again and have tried to incorporate some of your requests. Please ring the office to book. Please note that we may change some of our trips to a Sunday or other weekday due to driver availability.
5th November Atlantic Village, Bideford & Dunelm
12th November Darts Farm, Topsham
22nd November Lifton Farm Shop & Launceston Retail Park
3rd December Exeter City Centre
10th December Tavistock
17th December Homeleigh, Launceston
Thanks to us being successful in accessing a grant, the cost of the trips will again be subsidised, £10 for Okehampton and along the route. We may be able to include pick up from other areas if there is enough demand for an extra £2. We will be adding some weekday trips in the future. Please be ready for collection from 9am to ensure the driver is not held up. Please let us know if you need to cancel a trip, don’t wait until we ring you the day before with the pick up time as we have already worked out our route and rung other passengers. Thank you. If you have any suggestions of places you would like us to include then let us know and we will try and include them.
Reminder – Coffee Morning
Saturday 29th October Charter Hall, Okehampton 9-12. Please come along and see us. We welcome raffle prizes or good quality bric-a-brac, jigsaws and paperbacks.
Community Car Bookings
PLEASE ring and request your transport for hospital appointments as soon as you receive notification, we are having to disappoint more clients as we have not been given enough time to find an available volunteer. You can ring and leave a message on the answerphone during the late afternoon/evening which then gives us a chance to work on it early in the morning when we return to the office. PLEASE DO NOT ring volunteer drivers direct, their numbers are only provided to you on your appointment day for collection following your appointment.
Drivers
We welcome John Beentjes (Okehampton) and Richard Fuller (Okehampton). We say a big Thank You to Scilla West, Alan Perrott, Chris Bloor, Phil Mitchell and Lindsey Dean-Smith who have sadly had to stop driving for us due to their own health problems, we are extremely grateful for the many years they have given to help our clients and will miss them. We are always looking for more volunteers and would particularly like to find someone in the Chagford/Throwleigh/Whiddon Down area and also Lewdown as we are having to send our drivers long distances to enable these journeys to take place.
Office
Please note we have new email addresses office@odctg.co.uk and manager@odctg.co.uk. If you have an email address then please let us know as it saves us a lot of postage and paper if we can keep you up to date by email instead. We have 2 telephone lines coming into the office which is useful when we are usually both here on a Monday but for the rest of the week there is only one of us here so if you get the answerphone it does not mean we are not here, just that we are on the other line, so please leave a message and we will ring you back ASAP. Please sign up to our website at www.odctg.co.uk for regular updates and news.
Wheelchairs
We have wheelchairs available for hire or sale in our office. Please speak to us if you would like more information.
LocalGiving
We have set up a local giving page to raise funds towards our services, the link is http://www.localgiving.org/Okehampton if you would like to look at our story.
Legacy
If you have had good service, please remember us in your will. Thank you.
Registered Charity No. 1024617
Sue & Lisa, ODCTG, Unit 3 Okehampton Business Park, Higher Stockley Mead, Okehampton, Devon EX20 1FJ 01837 55000 office@odctg.co.uk www.odctg.co.uk
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Out of hours emergency mobile no. 07484525577
Office Hours – Monday to Friday 08.30 – 16.00