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Three clubs below provide contacts for specially disabled persons,
some of who are elderly :—
Social Club for the Blind
(Alternate Wednesday afternoons)
Samaritan Club for Disabled
(1st and 3rd Thursday afternoons)
Club for Handicapped People
(2nd and 4th Friday afternoons)
Azelia Hall, Croydon Road.
St. Mary's Church Hall,
Shortlands.
Emmanual Church Hall,
The Grove, West Wickham.
Chiropody
At the end of the year the Beckenham Road Foot Clinic for old
people, dealing with 123 patients and organised twice a week by the
British Red Cross Society, closed down. The British Red Cross
Society, West Wickham Clinic, dealing with 80 patients and held once
a week, has continued. The County Council has introduced a service,
with a whole time chiropodist serving Bromley, Beckenham and Penge.
He holds clinics on Monday and Thursday mornings at the Town Hall
Infant Welfare Clinic and on Tuesday mornings and Wednesday afternoons
at Hawes Down Infant Welfare Clinic, West Wickham. Together
with a part-time chiropodist he visits the homes of those unable to
attend the centres, so that it is now no longer necessary to organise a
voluntary car service for this purpose.
Appointments for treatment are made by the District Officer at
12, Beckenham Road, and there is a maximum charge of 4/- for
treatment or treatments given in any one week. In the majority of
elderly persons, as the result of assessment, treatment is given free
of charge.
Outings and Holidays
Members of Darby and Joan Clubs pay 6d. to 1/- a week to a
holiday fund and the balance is made up by the Women's Voluntary
Service, who organise outings to the seaside and holidays at reduced
rates.
They are also arranged by other voluntary organisations, such as
the Old People's Welfare Committee, Rotary Club, the Soroptimist
Club, the Beckenham Veterans Club, the West Wickham Community
Council and the West Wickham British Legion.
Personal Service
(Visiting, Information and Emergency help)
The development of these services depends on the success of the
follow-up of the Emergency Call Scheme (Beckenham) and the continued
successful efforts of the Beckenham Old People's Welfare
Committee, which is re-issuing supplies of its comprehensive handbook
to all organisations.
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