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Each person paid £3.4.0d. for the week’s accommodation,
this sum also included coach transport from specific pick-uppoints
in the district to the Holiday Camp or Guest House. The
overall cost to the Council for these holidays was £17,841.6.2d.
When making up the parties for the Holiday Camp they are
usually from set areas i.e. the whole 300 campers may be from
the Town Hall Pick-up or 200 i.e. 4 coaches from Elm Park
and 100 from Harold Wood. Thus where an old person indicates
they wish to go with a particular club, as most club members live
in one area, they then can all be together.
Outings for the Elderly
19 outings were arranged during 1968, 11 to Bexhill-on-Sea
and 8 to Heme Bay, two coaches going on each occasion. A
total of 1,478 persons went on the outings.
Approx: 2,000 applications were received and accommodation
was booked for 1,606. Of the applicants offered a days outing,
455 cancellations were received. This meant that almost everyone
who applied was offered an outing. None of the cancellations
were for frivolous reasons and the last minute cancellations
were often due to ill health, and although efforts were made to
fill the cancellations, it was not always possible for them to be
taken up at short notice.
Bad weather did not always mean that the old persons
failed to turn up, this might have happened in some instances
where they were very frail, but generally they preferred to be
out rather than ‘sit indoors and look at the rain’.
The total cost of the outings for catering and transport was
£1,486.11.3d. Each old person contributed 5/- and £370.5.0d.
was received by way of income.
Luncheon Centres for the Elderly
197,371 meals were served, averaging 3,796 per week, at
the Borough's 9 Luncheon Centres situated as under:
Community Centre, Gooshays Drive, Harold Hill
Hopwa House, Hornchurch
Laurie Hall, Romford /contd.
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