Chard & Ilminster Slinky
What is the Slinky? How much does it cost? Slinky is an accessible bus service funded Please phone the booking office to check Chard & Ilminster Slinky by Somerset County Council for people the cost for your journey. English National Your local transport service unable to access conventional transport. Concessionary Travel Scheme passes can be used on Slinky services. You will need to show This service can be used for a variety of your pass every time you travel. If you have reasons such as getting to local health a companion element on your bus pass your appointments or exercise classes, visiting companion can also travel with you for free. friends and relatives, going shopping or for Somerset Student County Tickets are also social reasons. You can also use the Slinky valid on Slinky services. as a link to other forms of public transport. Somerset County Council’s Slinky Service is Who can use the Slinky? operated by: You will be eligible to use the Slinky bus South Somerset Association for Voluntary if you: & Community Action Ltd, Unit 5, Yeovil Small • Do not have your own transport Business Centre, Houndstone Business Park • Do not have access to a public bus service ssvca.org.uk/communitytransport/slinky • Or have a disability which means you cannot access a public bus Services available: Parents with young children, teenagers, Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm students, the elderly, the retired and people with disabilities could all be eligible to use Booking number: the Slinky bus service. 0844 800 9646 How does it work? Booking lines are open: If you are eligible to use the service you will Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm first need to register to become a member of For more information on Community the scheme. You must complete a registration Transport in your area, form and return it to the booking office please phone Somerset Direct on before using the service for the first time. 0300 123 2224 or visit our website at Once registered you can then book a journey www.movingsomersetforward.co.uk by contacting your booking office at least 24 hours before you want to travel. Trips WWW.SOMERSET.GOV.UK can be booked up to two weeks in advance.
www.movingsomersetforward.co.uk Areas served each day of the week as follows:
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Chard Chaffcombe Knowle St Giles Whitestaunton Chard Donyatt Winsham Cricket Malherbie Combe St Nicholas Donyatt Ilminster Forton Dowlish Wake Bishopswood Ilminster Wambrook King Stone Buckland St Mary Chillington Horton
Isle Brewers Fivehead Curry Mallet Isle Abbots Ilton Destinations
Chard Chard, then journeys Chard, then journeys Ilminster Chard Ilminster within Chard Town within Chard Town Ilminster
Other community transport services in the area: Booking number: South Somerset Community Transport - SSVCA Tel: 01935 477399 0844 800 9646 SSVCA Community Cars Tel: 01935 411572 Crewkerne Voluntary Transport Tel: 01460 77242 Booking lines are open: Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm South Somerset Community Accessible Transport - CAT Tel: 01963 33864 South Somerset Links Tel: 01458 250169 Please phone the booking office if you live within the Chard & Ilminster area but your village is not in the list.