The services provided to the local community by the Community Centre include:

• Accommodation and facilities for the Youth Club.  No other facilities are available in the village for the youth club to meet
   
• A venue and facilities for operation of a Lunch Club each Tuesday and Wednesday for the older person
   
• Transport to and from the surgery and local hospitals for the frail and elderly
   
• The storage and issue on loan of Red Cross equipment on behalf of the Red Cross
   
• A venue, facilities and the staff for manning a local Information Office for five or six mornings each week
   
• Accommodation for use by local clubs, organisations and residents.  Regular users include: Concert Band, Dance Band, Jazz Band, two Art Classes, China painting, University of the Third Age, Amateur Dramatic Club for rehearsals, the Bridge inter-church meetings, Local History Society, Sunday Youth Group.

The services are provided entirely by volunteers and the Centre is self-supporting apart from a grant of £1,100 per year from the Social Services Department of the County Council towards the operation of the Lunch Club.

Please also see Facilities for Hire see and Conditions of Hire .

Transport

As well transport to and from the Community Centre, transport is also provided for those having difficulty in getting to the surgery or hospitals for appointments.  An office is manned between 10:00 am and midday Monday to Friday to receive requests for assistance and transport is arranged from a team of voluntary drivers.  Destinations include the Goring and Woodcote surgeries; Royal Berks Hospital; Wallingford Hospital; Townlands Hospital, Henley and the Oxford hospitals.

Transport passes have been arranged for waiting at Royal Berks and John Radcliffe Hospitals.

Red Cross Medical Loan

A service is provided for the short-term loan of medical equipment supplied by the Red Cross.  The scheme covers patients, for example, waiting for equipment from Social Services, those requiring help after surgery or a visitor needing equipment during a stay in the locality.  Ideally the loan period should be no longer than eight weeks.

The equipment, held in stock at the Centre, includes items such as wheelchairs, commodes, bath seats, raised toilet seats and walking aids.  Items not held in stock are obtained from the head office at Abingdon.  A catalogue of new and second hand equipment for sale is also held.

There is no charge or deposit for a loan but donations are welcomed and frequently given.  During a typical year some 70 items of equipment will loaned and some £800 added to the Red Cross funds

All the volunteers attend a brief familiarisation/training course arranged by the Red Cross.

Contact with the service is via the Information Office.