Meals On Wheels
Eastleigh Borough Council provides a
hot meal service from Monday to Friday and prepacked frozen
meals for weekends and Bank Holidays. Funded by the Borough
Council with Hampshire County Council, the service provides meals
to about 250 Borough residents.
Our aim is
to:
- Ensure better health and improve the quality of life for local
people
- Provide a value for money hot nutritional midday meal to
elderly Borough residents, who are unable to provide one for
themselves
- Check on the well-being of clients and provide a daily contact
while delivering meals
Residents of the Borough who are
referred to Eastleigh Borough Council by Doctors, Social Workers,
Health Visitors or Carers. Referrals can be made direct to the
meals on wheels supervisor.
Meals are prepared at a Central
Kitchen, packed in heat retaining polystyrene boxes and distributed
to 2 pick up points. Here
volunteer drivers/helpers pick
up their rounds and deliver to clients. Clients will receive their
meal between 11.15am and 1pm.
Cancellations -
Messages can be passed to volunteers regarding cancellation of
meals or clients may ring the office direct before 9.30am for
cancellations that day.
Frozen meals -
These are provided on request for weekends and Bank Holidays
providing the client has a freezer for storage and an oven for
reheating.
Where does the food come
from?
Food for the meals is supplied by
the Wiltshire based Apetito Group. They deliver a wide variety of
nutritional meals to the kitchen twice a week.
Recycled
Foil
All meals are delivered in foil
containers. The containers can be returned to the Meals on Wheels
kitchen where they are sent for recycling. Proceeds from the sale
of the foil goes to The Queen Elizabeth II Activities Centre,
Bursledon, for people with special needs.
A choice of
dinners - Includes Dish Of The Day, Vegetarian and Soft
Meals.
If someone dislikes a particular
meal and lets us know we will always provide an alternative.
Hot / Cold
puddings - A choice of Diabetic or Cheese and Biscuit
options are also available for desert.
Meals are offered at a subsidised
rate. Payment can be made by cheque, or tokens, which can be bought
from Post Offices in the Borough. Volunteers will collect payments
on Mondays or the first day a meal is received.
When we are concerned about a
client, or volunteers cannot get a reply when delivering a meal, we
will always take the matter further and contact a relative,
neighbour, Social Services, or the Police.
Volunteer
Drivers/Helpers
To help maintain a high level of
service, we rely on volunteer help for deliveries. We have
approximately 100 volunteers who deliver on a rotation basis.
Training is given and mileage / petrol allowance is provided for
drivers.
For many of our volunteers, Meals
On Wheels provides an opportunity to meet new people. Volunteers of
all ages and from all walks of life come to drive or help to
deliver meals.
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