Fife Forum
The aim of the forum is:
- To act as a voice for visually impaired people all over Fife
The Fife Forum meets roughly every 2 months to discuss issues that affect those with a visual impairment. We currently have 11 members on the forum most of whom are on the Board of Directors as representatives of local service users.
Our focus at present is transport issues and in February we conducted a survey of visitors to the Centre to find out how they travelled to the centre and how they rated concessionary travel services including taxi concession scheme and ring & ride if used. The results showed that the Taxicard is highly rated and used but the Ring & Ride service was hardly used. If anyone else would like to have their say about concessionary travel or find out more about the survey please contact us.
We would particularly like to hear what you think about the Taxicard – what do you think about the number and value of the vouchers? Do you think they should have a higher value and would you benefit from getting more vouchers? Please let us know.
Following on from this on Thursday 5th June 2008 we invited Anne Cowan from Fife Council to the Forum meeting. Anne is in charge of Concessionary Travel. The forum had the chance to ask questions and learn more about concessionary travel. If anyone wishes to know more about concessionary travel or has any queries please contact me by email or phone and I will try to answer them or put you in touch with the relevant person. The two main changes that are soon to be implemented are that the Ring & Ride will soon be available in Markinch, Leslie & Coaltown of Wemyss and also they are looking to change to allowing booking up to 7 days in advance with confirmation being given 2 days before date of travel.
The Forum is a chance to bring forward any issues that need addressed both on a regional and local level. We need people to bring forward anything they think we should address so that we can take action, and put forward your views in any decision making by organisations and the council, that affect the visually impaired.
The next Forum meeting is on Thursday 7th August at 6pm.
If you want to know more about the forum or have any issues you wish to raise please call
the office and leave a message for Claire Chue Hong or send an email to
claire.chuehong@fsbinsight.co.uk