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Taxi struggling for cash

Help from local companies needed to
keep disabled taxi service on road
A unique taxi service could go people, to take the WOW vehicle
under unless more cash is found off the road:
to run it. Wheelchair bound people in
WOW Accessible Transport West Swindon are at a
has been successfully operating a disadvantage and could lose a
taxi service for people with valuable service, says WOW
disabilities for nearly a year using secretary Laurence Yeoman.
a specially converted car which "The Swindon Dial-A-Ride
takes wheelchairs. However, scheme does not operate in this
having provided mobility and a area, so the WOW vehicle has
sense of freedom for many been a godsend for many people
disabled people, financial who find it difficult to get out and
pressures could force the about. WOW secretary Laurence Yeoman helps Linda Beck on board the WOW
voluntary management "WOW started as something taxi watched by Roy Williams in the car and Brian and Tina Haylock
committee of mainly disabled of an experiment with grants from
the Allied Dunbar Charitable THAMESWOOD
The Link Trust and several other small
charities. There is such a
tremendous demand for the VETERINARY CLINIC
Published by West vehicle, but to cover our costs we
Swindon Publications would have to charge from £5 per Nicholas Hartley M.A., Vet. M.B. M.R.C.V.S.
13 Castle Dore journey, a lot more than the 62 - 64 Purton Road. VET
Freshbrook, Swindon current rates. Apart from the Tel: Swindon 26780
Mon. - Fri. 9am- lOam;
Editorial: Roger Ogle, finances, the drivers are now 2pm-3pm; 5pm-6pm
Publisher/Editor working voluntarily and Open Surgery Mon. - Fri.
Tel: (0793) 872282 sometimes we can't find anybody 6pm-6.3Opm Renault \
Advertising Sales: to drive which is making the Saturday 9am-llam Centre
Elizabeth Wood Tel: 871793 service unreliable." 29 Cavendish Square.
d Apple Macintosh design, At the moment the main Tel: Swindon 511267
layout and lasersetting by financial outlay for the VM
Keystrokes Electronic Design organisation is a monthly contract 24 Hour
Printed by Western Webb, Bristol hire fee of £700 paid to the PHH Emergency Freabrook
TOOthII
vehicle management company at Service Am
Published on the Wednesday Windmill Hill Business Park for
closest to the first of the month. the WOW car. To continue, WOW CAROLINE OCKWELL
Copy date: 20th of the month. needs an annual budget of TAXATION CONSULTANCY
March edition published on £53,000. They estimate £18,000
28 February. can be raised from fares, which 1 Are you paying too much tax?
leaves them £35,000 short to pay
"The Link was first published in drivers and for administration El Are you taking advantage of the
December 1978 exclusively for
the West Swindon community. and running costs. new rules for taxation of husband
It is completely independent of "WOW has offered people with and wife from April 1990?
Link Centre and, In fact, won the disabilities the same type of
competition to name the leisure freedom that everybody else takes El Professional Advice on Income Tax,
centre in 1984. The magazine is for granted," said WOW Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax
entirely self-supporting from chairwoman Linda Beck of and National Insurance
advertising." Liskeard Way, Freshbrook. "We
should be available 24 hours a Caroline 0 c I'e 11
Contents day, 7 days a week and we Member of the Institute of Taxation
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4 Toothili able to do this. Without it there's
6 Freshbrook & Grange no way we can continue." Tel: 725919
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