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Welcome To The Brecon Dial-A-Ride Homepage
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A surprising number of people are unaware that
Dial-A-Ride is a Charity providing a door to door wheelchair accessible service, receives 6.1% of it's financial support from the Local Authority
In 2022 we celebrated 45 years of dependable, trustworthy service to the people of Brecon & surrounding areas.
In 2019 our fleet of 7 wheelchair accessible minibuses travelled an amazing 64,073 miles - almost 3 times around the world!
We carried 17, 364 passengers, making 7,956 trips of which, 1946 were accessible tail lift users.
54% of our members are over the age of 80!
Many of the villages and areas that we service are so rural, that our members simply do not have any public transport options available to them whatsoever.
This makes Dial-A-Ride an essential lifeline to various amenities such as shops, hairdressers, medical facilities, & essentially to meet up with their social circle of friends.
During the COVID-19 pandemic we continued to operate a limited service to our local community, by offering a collection and delivery service of prescriptions.
We shopped for some disabled members who were not able to get out to the shops themselves, and we supported
Brecon Foodbank
by delivering the essential food items needed by local residents and families each week.
https://brecon.foodbank.org.uk/
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Data showing the number of Passengers, trips etc in a Year
| 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | |
| Passengers | 10899 | 9235 | 6391 | 6750 | 17364 | 18439 |
| Trips | 5786 | 5258 | 4108 | 3731 | 7956 | 8766 |
| W/C T/L | 1009 | 1054 | 667 | 652 | 1946 | 2112 |
| The above data shows the impact on the service of Covid and Lockdown, things have improved but the number of service users is still much lower than 2018 & 2019 | |
General Manager Lisa Marsh receiving a very generous donation of £10,000.00 from Morrisons towards one of our newer buses !
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Please click on this link to see the trailer for the new and up-coming film about Dial-A-Ride made by Superfolk Films https://vimeo.com/188300301
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Photos taken by a drone for Superfolk Films
Dial-A-Ride photos by Film makers "Superfolk Films" were taken by Tom & George whilst filming over a few months. Please click on the link below and scroll your mouse over to Dial-A-Ride
Contact Us:
Brecon & District Dial-A-Ride Club
Plas Y Ffynnon
Cambrian Way
Brecon
Powys
LD3 7HP
Tel: 01874 624060
Service Hours:
Monday to Friday
8am to 5pm
Bookings accepted between
8.30am & 12.30pm
(Monday to Friday)
News
During November 2019 we became a permanent fixture on The Struet in Brecon town centre — opening our very own charity shop!
This has been a tremendous success to date, but more importantly it provides a special opportunity to further raise the profile of Dial-A-Ride by offering a face to face opportunity to inform visitors of our services.
We moved the Charity shop to larger more visable premises on the corner of Castle street and The Struet, raising much needed funds to invest in the Dial-A-Ride service covering Brecon, Talgarth, Crickhowell and Sennybridge and the surrounding villages.
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