ABOUT US

Most of those who live in South West Herefordshire will be familiar with the Dore Community Transport red vehicles that crisscross our area; after all we have been operating since 2000. What is surprising is that, after all this time, some people are still confused about what we do. We regularly get comments like “I thought you only took people to hospital” or “I thought you had to be a pensioner to use Dore Transport.” That is not true! We do much more than that.		If you live in our area of operation (the blue area shown in the map) and do not have independent means of transport or useable bus service then you should think about using us. There is no age limit, although young children should be accompanied by an adult. We will take you anywhere in our area or just beyond and we do go further if one of our drivers agrees to take you. We take people (singly or in small groups) to the shops, hairdressers, to visit friends, etc., as well as to doctors, dentists, day care centres and hospitals.
South West Herefordshire is a beautiful place to live in but it suffers from poor public transport and rare & expensive taxi services. Dore Community Transport was set up to address these problems.

Dore Community Transport is a charity, run by Volunteers with a small administration team, supporting those in South-West Hereforshire who need transport. We are not a bus service and we are not a taxi service. You must first register with us before you may book a drive with us. However, as explained on our Bookings page, that is very easy to do.

We are not limited to helping wheelchair-users nor are we limited to helping the elderly, although we do of course identify those groups as amongst our potential customers. We support the Whole Community. Our drivers may be as happy to take a group of friends to the cinema as they are to take someone to the hospital. It is worth asking us to see what we can do! For more on this, see the Bookings page.

The service we offer is popular, respected and well-used but we could do more if we had more Volunteer Drivers and Trustees so, if you are up to it, please do think of becoming one of our Volunteers! It is rewarding work even for those who have little time to offer.

Our people

Trustees
Roger Bradley (Chairman), David Bond (Secretary), Trefor Edwards (Treasurer), Christopher Tomlinson (Fleet manager), Peter Barns-Graham, Jean Wise, Steve White

Administration
Claire Wood-Cole

Co-ordinators
Sue Goldsbury, Sarah Cleaver, Maria Bayliss

Other matters

For information about our legal status, procedures & such matters, see here.