In order to help people in Brighton & Hove who are self-isolating due to the Coronavirus, Community Transport has adapted our regular shopping bus service to bring life’s essentials to you.
Our new service is for anyone who is self-isolating and cannot easily access food and provisions. You do not need to be an existing member and you do not need to be elderly or disabled. The service is for everyone in the Brighton & Hove area who for whatever reason can’t easily access basic essentials and we are delighted to be working with local independent grocer Dubleaus to provide you with good quality fresh food at affordable prices.
We have split the city up into five zones, and each zone has two deliveries per week:
Zone 1: Hove, Hangleton, Portslade & Mile Oak; delivered on Tuesdays & Fridays
Zone 2: City Centre, Preston Park, Westdene, Patcham & Hollingbury: delivered on Wednesdays & Fridays
Zone 3: Lewes Rd, Hollingdean, Coldean, Moulsecoomb & Bevendean: delivered on Mondays & Wednesdays
Zone 4: Hanover, Queens Park, Kemptown & Whitehawk: delivered on Tuesdays & Thursdays
Zone 5: Saldean, Rottingdean, Woodingdean & Ovingdean; delivered on Mondays & Thursdays
Community Transport General Manager, Tom Druitt, says:
“As the Coronavirus crisis has worsened, we have stopped taking people shopping and instead we are now taking their shopping to them. We started this last week, originally with the aim of using supermarket ‘click & collect’ to order and pick up people’s shopping and drop it off to them. However, as I’m sure you are all-too-aware, there is now a waiting list for supermarket ‘click & collect’ of 2-3 weeks.
“This is no use to our regulars, who usually shop on a week-by-week basis and do not have the luxury of piling a year’s worth of toilet paper into a 4×4. And although the supermarkets advertise a fast-track scheme for ‘vulnerable’ people, getting on it is nigh impossible. So we’ve teamed up with our local independent grocer Louis (who runs Dubleaus in Whitehawk) and launched the Community Transport Food Delivery Service. We hope it’s useful for people”
You can order online at food.bhct.co.uk or by calling Ellis: 07548 226452 or Daniel: 07739 953600.
To try out the new service click on the veg box below:
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Hi, my name is miss Emma Beech and I have terminal cancer and I also have stress asthma, COPD and progressive emphysema and that is just the physical conditions, I also suffer with paranoid schizophrenia, mild agoraphobia, clinical depression and severe anxiety disorder which makes getting on public transport all but impossible for me and I am unable to walk far let alone carrying bags of shopping. I don’t drive and the scooter I had was stolen 2 weeks ago so now I find myself house bound, but as everyone knows that you can’t survive long without food and even less time with no fluids, plus I have a cat who needs food and biscuits himself. So I guess what I’m asking is do you still do that door to door food collection and deliver service that you were doing during covid?
If so could you please send me some info on the scheme
Thank you
Miss Emma Beech
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Hi Emma, I’m so sorry to hear of your situation; sadly the food service isn’t running any more because the normal shopping service has been resumed. I think most supermarkets now offer an assisted delivery service where you can specify if you need extra help and the driver will bring it in to wherever you need it, I can only suggest trying that…hope that helps, good luck x
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