If you are able to spare a few minutes to nominate HcL to win funds, that would be so appreciated.
Firstly you can nominate HcL for £1000 as part of Ecclesiasticals' 12 Days for Good where they award 10 charities a day £1000. The more votes we have, the better our chances. You can vote until 21 December. Just click here:
Secondly you can nominate HcL to win funding from SEIB Insurance. Nominations close 12 January.
Thank you to everyone who selected HcL over the last 12 months.
HcL was awarded £1,243.28.
This is an amazing award! Thank you!
We are proud to be one of Frederick Street and Raeburn Place Coops charities until October 2021. We are also delighted to be chosen as a charity for Coop Funeralcare Queensferry Road.
All Coop Members can select a charity and the charity gets 2p for every £1 you spend for 12 months. You can also choose to donate your 2p rewards you earn and donate them to your chosen charity.
Please register online, if you are not already a member - https://www.coop.co.uk/membership
We would love it if you could select HcL Transport. If you are already a member and have not selected a charity please do log in and select HcL.
You can select HcL as your charity, even if you do not shop in this store.
We know that some of our passengers will be nervous to get back out and about again. We have implemented new cleaning procedures at the start of each drivers shift, in between each journey and at the end of their shift. We also commissioned a short film to be made to demonstrate procedures to existing and new passengers - please watch:
https://vimeo.com/442394379/c977fccfbf
We are delighted to answer any questions you have. A couple of photos taken while we were filming. Big thanks to Denis and Joan!
FIrst week back - so lovely to see our passengers again.
As a wee gesture to celebrate Dial-A-Ride being fully operational again, we gave 5 customers from West Lothian, Edinburgh, East and Midlothian £6 off their journey - passengers were the first to book to travel with us w/c 20 July.
Terianne
Jean
We are proud to be one of Coop Gullanes 1% cash back charities until October this year.
All Members can select a charity and the charity gets 1% of everything you spend, donated for 12 months. Please register online, if you are not already a member.
https://www.coop.co.uk/membership
We would love it if you could select HcL Transport. If you are already a member and have not selected a charity please do log in and select one.
https://membership.coop.co.uk/causes/34620
We are excited to say that Dial-A-Ride will be back fully operational from 20 July, albeit with some changes to meet Government guidelines.
You can call the office now and make bookings for any journey from 20 July onwards. We ask passengers not to travel with us if they feel unwell and have any Coronavirus symptoms.
And remember we are providing transport for any medical appointments now.
We have missed all our passengers and look forward to seeing you all soon!
Whilst Dial-A-Bus has not been operating during lockdown, Dial-A-Ride has been still supporting passengers to medical appointments and funerals.
A number of our drivers are furloughed but drivers that have been working have been supporting community projects to deliver meals and food parcels to people isolating and shielding across West Lothian and Edinburgh, around passenger journeys.
We have been working with:
We are really proud to have worked with these organisations to help support our local communities.
Although events are cancelled this week to recognise and celebrates volunteer due to the current situation, we still want to recognise our vounteers and how important they are to us.
We currently have 3 volunteers who help HcL operationally - 2 drivers, with one in West Lothian and one in Loanhead, and a despatcher in West Lothian.
We then have our Board of Trustees who all volunteer their time to help oversee HcL.
THANK YOU TO EACH OF YOU! We appreciate each of you and your kindness.
We continue to provide a Dial-A-Ride service for hospital and emergency journeys only, with a maximum of two passengers on board.
We are working with charities, organisations and community groups in West Lothian and Edinburgh to help deliver food parcels and meals to those in isolation and cannot shop by themselves in the current situation.
We realise many of our passengers will be in this situation. Please call your local office if you need help and we will do our best to assist you:
Edinburgh, East Lothian and Midlothian - 0131 447 9949 West Lothian - 01506 633953
We would love to support initiatives in East Lothian and Midlothian too, so please get in touch if you need help with food deliveries on 0131 447 9949
HcL were in the Tesco Bags for Life Public Vote from January to March in the Musselburgh Extra Store.
Due to the impact of Coronavirus, Tesco took the decision to remove the blue coins and existing charities that were instore for the vote would have the 3 amounts split equally between them.
We would like to thank everyone for their votes and thank the staff at Tesco Musselburgh for their support. We were delighted to be awarded £1,166.
HcL will put these funds towards a new additional vehicle for East Lothian. This will allow us to provide 3,500 more passenger journeys each year!
Thank you for you support.
We are providing a Dial-A-Ride service for hospital and emergency journeys only, with a maximum of two passengers on board.
We realise that many of our passengers are within the most vulnerable categories and will therefore be isolating or reducing how often they leave their homes. We are delivering food parcels to passengers who are unable to get out to shop by themselves in the current situation.
Please call your local office if you need help and we will do our best to assist you:
Edinburgh, East Lothian and Midlothian - 0131 447 9949 West Lothian - 01506 633953
In light of the current situation, we are continually reviewing our procedures and protocols to be in line with the most up-to-date advice. As a result of the latest guidance we have ceased to operate Dial-A-Bus. We are providing a Dial-A-Ride service for hospital and emergency journeys only, with a maximum of two passengers on board.
We realise that many of our passengers are within the most vulnerable categories and will therefore be isolating or reducing how often they leave their homes.
We have increased the level of cleaning in each of our vehicles and in particular the areas that are most frequently touched – Door handles; Handrails; Head rests; Seat grab handles; Seat backs; and Seat belts. Staff are following guidance on increased hand washing and using sanitiser. Staff are asked not to come to work if they or a family member in their household are self-isolating.
Any passenger who needs our assistance, please get in touch with your local office.
Unfortunately, due to the current circumstances we have to cancel the Dial-A-Bus 30 years of service Parliament Reception on 13 May.
We thank everyone for their responses and support and to Miles Briggs MSP for kindly sponsoring the reception.
We will be at The Gyle Shopping Centre on Monday 13 January 2020. Please pop by and say Hi or to find out more about our services.
We visit the Gyle almost every day with passengers so hope to see some familiar faces.
HcL are in the Tesco Bags for Life Public Vote from January to March in the Musselburgh Extra Store.
When you are instore shopping, please remember to ask for a token when you pay for your purchases and then pop it in the HcL box.
Every charity you can vote for is a winner. The charity with the most tokens wins £2,000, the charity in 2nd place wins £1,000 and the charity in 3rd place wins £500.
HcL will put the funds we win towards a new additional vehicle for East Lothian. This will allow us to provide 3,500 more passenger journeys each year!
Thank you for you support!