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provides 40 active elderly people with clean work in a very pleasant sociable atmosphere
and a modest amount of pocket money.
Finchley Work Centre
This Centre is organised by the Finchley Guild of Social Service, and provides a
most worthwhile and interesting service for elderly persons in the East Finchley area
and is on similar lines to the Council's Work Centre.
Meals on Wheels
The service is provided mainly by The Women's Royal Voluntary Service, as
Agents of the Council, and 66,979 meals were delivered during the year. Not all parts
of the Borough receive a 5-day service, but there has again been a substantial increase
in the number of meals provided this year, and the ultimate aim is a daily service in all
areas of the Borough.
In addition, the Hendon Old People's Welfare Committee, and the Watling Community
Centre have a lunch Club for the elderly once each week, and The League of Jewish
Women supply Kosher meals to a number of elderly people in the Finchley area. The
Luncheon Clubs operated by all the Organisations mentioned play a very important role
in caring for the needs of the elderly, and during the year a total of 19,465 meals were
served in these Clubs in the Borough.
Services for the Partially Sighted
These are persons substantially and permanently handicapped by congenitally
defective vision, or in whose case illness or injury has caused defective vision of a
substantial and permanently handicapping character, which brings them within the scope
of the welfare services which the local authority are empowered to provide for blind
persons.
Services Provided:
Employment of Social Welfare Officers to assist in promoting general welfare, and to
give instruction on reading embossed literature if required.
Christmas parcels for the lonely and housebound.
Talking Book Machines, if surgeon agrees that the person cannot read print.
Tape Recorders.
Large print books (available from local library).
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